FORT STOCKTON Still untried after spending more than a decade on the run an.d sitting in the Pecos County Jail for more than a year and a half since being re-captured by the FBI, a now-32-year-old Coyanosa man is finally set to be tried on a murder charge in the 1999 death of a Fort Stockton teen.

Fabian Douglas Castañeda faces first-degree felony murder and third-degree felony failure to appear charges Monday in the 83rd District Court in Fort Stockton.

Brock Jones, a retired 112th District Court Judge, will preside.

Castañeda is charged in connection with the February 1999 killing of 19-year-old Javier “J.J.” Tellez Jr. of Fort Stockton. Tellez was found with multiple gun shot wounds in his back. Castañeda told authorities the shooting was in connection to Tellez’s $200 cocaine debt.

Castañeda bonded out of jail twice on reduced bonds before staying on the run for more than 10 years.

In 1999, Castañeda’s bond was set initially at $100,000, but then-District Judge Carl Pendergrass lowered it to $35,000. He bonded out, but in April 2000, Castañeda was arrested a second time after authorities recorded a phone call he placed to a Fort Stockton police officer.

Court documents show Castañeda accused an off-duty police officer of romancing his girlfriend saying, “he’s lucky I didn’t bust the door down and blow his (expletive) head off.”

Castañeda bonded out of jail again on a $50,000 bond, but on his July 10, 2000, trial date, Castañeda was nowhere to be found.

He has been held in the Pecos County Jail for 630 days as of today On Sunday (628 on Friday) without bond since the FBI found him in August 2010 in Eagle Pass, a small Texas city across the border from Piedras Negas, Mexico.

He faces life in prison or a five to 99 year sentence and a maximum fine of $10,000. David Zavoda of Odessa will act as Castañeda’s defense attorney and 83rd District Attorney Jesse Gonzales Jr. will act as prosecutor.

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