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Alvarez extradited, charged
Could face one to two years
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Harlin Alvarez is back in Warren County for the first time since he fled the Nursery Capital after a wreck that killed two cyclists near Centertown more than five years ago.Alvarez, 26, was transported from federal custody in Atlanta to Warren County Jail Tuesday. He was booked into the local facility around 4 p.m. where he was formally charged with two counts of leaving the scene of an accident involving fatality. The charge is a Class E Felony carrying one to two years in prison.The charges come for the deaths of Billy Lynn Bell, 42, and Samantha Roach who were killed when Alvarez’s pick up struck the motorcycle on which they were riding just outside of Centertown on Nashville Highway in 2008.