UPDATED: University of Virginia abduction suspect appears in court

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GALVESTON, Texas – A man charged with abducting a missing British-born student has been captured in Texas and is awaiting extradition to Virginia – but there is still no sign of the 18-year-old, authorities said.

On Thursday morning, Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr., 32, appeared briefly before a Texas judge via a video link from jail to hear the charges against him. He’s charged in that state with being a fugitive from justice and with giving false information to an officer, in addition to a count of abduction in Virginia. Judge Mark Henry held Matthew without bond on the fugitive count.

Matthew was arrested Wednesday afternoon on a beach in the sparsely populated community of Gilchrist, police said. The capture came less than a full day after police announced they had probable cause to arrest Matthew in the case of Hannah Graham, the University of Virginia student who went missing on Sept. 13 in Charlottesville. Graham moved from England to Virginia at age 5.

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On Thursday, Matthew – in a dark green jumpsuit, with his hands cuffed – signed papers and refused a court-appointed attorney. He told Henry that before his arrest in Texas, he was not out on bond on any other charges.

Matthew appeared confused and asked the judge a few short questions. He expressed concern that his clothes were taken when he was booked into Galveston County jail. “I should be able to have some kind of clothing,” he said.

Henry told him that his jumpsuit was sufficient and that his personal items would be returned later.

After the appearance, Henry told KPRC-TV that he expected Matthew would be extradited to Virginia within a day or two. But details on how or when he would be moved remained unclear. Galveston County Sheriff Henry Trochesset told The Associated Press that authorities from Virginia were expected to arrive after noon Thursday.

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Police received a call reporting a suspicious person and a responding deputy found a man who had pitched a tent on the beach with his car parked nearby, Trochesset said. Matthew refused to give the officer identification, Trochesset said, but the car’s plates revealed it was the vehicle sought in the case.

“We seem to be the end of the road,” Trochesset said. “For us, it’s not strange that someone like that would be arrested here.”

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With Graham still missing, Trochesset said Texas authorities would conduct searches. In Charlottesville, police say an intense search continues.

“This case is nowhere near over,” Longo told a news conference late Wednesday. “We have a person in custody, but there’s a long road ahead of us and that long road includes finding Hannah Graham.”

The search is focusing on rural and wooded areas around Charlottesville, Longo said Thursday on NBC’s “Today” show.

According to authorities, Graham met friends at a restaurant for dinner Sept. 12 before stopping by two parties at off-campus housing units. Officials said she left the second party alone and sent a text message to a friend saying she was lost.

Surveillance videos showed her walking, and at some points running, past a pub and a service station and then onto the Downtown Mall, a seven-block pedestrian strip where police believe she entered a bar with Matthew. The video that has been publicly released does not show the two entering the bar together; instead, “witnesses place them in the bar together,” Charlottesville Police spokeswoman Miriam I. Dickler said in an email.

Matthew had been employed at the University of Virginia Medical Center since Aug. 12, 2012, as a patient technician in the operating room, according to the university.

Matthew attended Liberty University from 2000 to 2002, said officials with the Lynchburg school founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell. The school’s athletics website listed him as a player on the football team.

Online court records show Matthew was convicted of trespassing in 2010 but provide no details about the incident. Details also were unavailable for two other charges of assault and attempted grand larceny relating to a 2009 incident that were not prosecuted. Matthew, who had a taxi permit from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles from 2007 through 2010, also has several traffic infractions, records show.

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