Police in Buffalo, New York this week nabbed former Guyana Revenue Authority cashier Gregory Barnes who has been on the run from Guyanese law enforcement for the past four years after allegedly pulling off a $300 Million fraud at the revenue agency.

According to reports out of Buffalo, the wanted man Gregory Alistair Ewan Barnes did not get around to renewing the registration on his 1997 gold Infiniti and when Cheektowaga police pulled over the four-door sedan with tinted windows early Monday evening on Genesee Street to let the driver know his plates were out of date, they were surprised to discover when they ran his license that Barnes, 32, is considered an international criminal.

The former cashier fled Guyana just as the investigations into the multi million dollar fraud was getting started and had not been seen or heard from until he was pulled over by the Police in Buffalo when the officers noticed that the inpection sticker on his car had expired.

Media reports state that the license check revealed a warrant for his arrest, which police confirmed through U.S. National Central Bureau, a division of Interpol U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.

Assistant Chief Jim Speyer said Barnes apparently wound up in Cheektowaga because of a girlfriend, with whom he lived on George Urban Boulevard. Police don’t know if the woman knew that Barnes was a wanted man, but Barnes apparently did.

“He said he did not steal nearly as much money as the government was claiming he did,” Speyer said. “I think it was, maybe, $5,000.”

Barnes was turned over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for a visa violation and is expected to be deported to Guyana to face the fraud charges.

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