Edwin Pena, 26, had been arrested in June, 2006, on multiple computer and wire fraud charges, and then allegedly fled the country about two months later. He had been free on $100,000 bail. in Mexico in February and federal prosecutors have been working to get him extradited back to the U.S. since then, according to .

"He's been a fugitive for over three years," said Liebermann, who is prosecuting the case. "We're looking forward to proceeding with the prosecution."

Pena faces 20 charges that include conspiracy to commit computer intrusion and conspiracy to commit wire fraud charge. The U.S. alleges that from November 2004 to May 2006 Pena and a cohort hacked into the computer networks of VoIP service providers and routed calls made by customers of Pena's VoIP service through them.

According to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in New Jersey, Pena and co-conspirator Robert Moore of Spokane, Wash., sold more than 10 million minutes of VoIP service that had been stolen from 15 telecommunications providers. Prosecutors have contended that the lost minutes were valed at $1.4 million to the providers victimized in the alleged scam. Federal investigators contend that Pena was the mastermind behind the scheme and Moore hacked the systems.

In the fall of 2007, Moore pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit computer fraud and began a two-year prison sentence.