A former East Haddam man who failed to show up for his court date in Norwich Superior Court in 2012 after being arrested on child pornography charges, was taken into custody in Texas on Monday.

Thomas Marcel was arrested in El Paso, Texas as he crossed into the U.S. and was held as a fugitive from justice. The arrest was part of a joint investigation by the U.S. Marshal Connecticut Violent Fugitive Task Force, U.S. Marshal Lone Star Fugitive Task Force, Connecticut State Police and the Customs and Border Protection.

Authorities, in a statement, said Marcel was initially arrested in September of 2008 on charges he solicited sex from an undercover police officer posing as a 13-year-old girl in an internet chat room. Police said Marcel was arrested at the Crystal Mall in Waterford where he had agreed to meet the girl.

Court records show Marcel faces felony charges of possession of child pornography, promoting a minor in an obscene performance, risk of injury to a minor and enticing a minor by computer.

Marcel also faces an additional charge of first-degree failure to appear in court. He is currently being housed at the El Paso County Detention Facility in Texas and as he awaits extradition back to Connecticut.