<div id="subtitle">New Jersey fugitive had Homeland Security job in Georgia despite nationwide alert for arrest</div><div><p>Prosecutors don't understand how a fugitive wanted in New Jersey worked for the Homeland Security Department in Georgia despite a nationwide alert for her arrest.</p><p>Tahaya Buchanan was sought on a 2007 indictment on charges of staging the theft of her Range Rover.</p><p>Paul Loriquet (LOR'-ih-kay) of the Essex County Prosecutor's Office says the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Atlanta was unaware of the 39-year-old's status even after Buchanan was arrested in July during a traffic stop in which police noticed the warrant.</p><p>Immigration spokeswoman Ana Santiago tells The Star-Ledger of Newark she did not have information whether the office regularly checks its employee list against national criminal warrants.</p><p>A Citizenship and Immigration Services spokeswoman in Washington said Wednesday she couldn't immediately comment.</p><p>Buchanan pleaded guilty to one charge of insurance fraud on Monday and faces three months probation.</p><p>___</p><p>Information from: The Star-Ledger, http://www.nj.com/starledger</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=65090801&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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