(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Congressman Randy Feenstra says accountability is coming for the man who vanished after being charged with killing an Iowa woman nine years ago. The Honduran National Police announced late last week that Eswin Mejia had been taken into custody. In 2016, Mejia was accused of driving drunk and crashing into Sarah Root’s vehicle in Omaha. Root, a 21 year old from Council Bluffs, died at the scene. Mejia, who was in the country illegally, posted a five-thousand dollar bond, was released and disappeared.

“Now the Trump Administration is working to extradite the criminal to the United States to answer for these crimes,” Feenstra says. Feenstra and other members of Iowa’s congressional delegation had for several years co-sponsored what they called “Sarah’s Law” to require that illegal immigrants charged with a violent crime be detained and not eligible for pre-trial release. This year Sarah’s Law was attached to another bill and it was the first piece of legislation President Trump signed into law.

“I was so excited. In January, I was at the White House with Scott Root, Sarah’s dad, when President Trump signed the legislation making Sarah’s Law the law of the land and this legislation will ensure that illegal immigrants who harm and kill Americans are detained, punished and locked away,” Feenstra said. “And when I talked to Scott Root the number one thing he wanted was the criminal to be found accountable for his crime on killing his daughter and that’s what we’re going to get.”

Scott Root is scheduled to be Iowa Senator Joni Ernst’s guest at President Trump’s “State of the Union” address to congress tonight (Tuesday).