Troy Neel could run but he could not hide, 8 years later and $725,000 dollars in back child support.

A sentencing hearing was scheduled Friday for one of the state's most wanted child support evaders.

Former pro baseball player Troy Neel was arrested in December for not paying child support.

He owes more than $725,000 for more than eight years of missed payments.

Neel used to play baseball for the Oakland A's and professionally in Japan.

He's charged with fleeing the country to avoid paying.

He could serve up to two years in prison.

Now before you make comments about how it's too much money, you should look at the whole picture. When Neel and his wife divorced, he was a pro ball player who decided to leave the US and buy a resort in a country that had no extradition agreement with the US. coincidence? I don't think so ... plus that $725k number is not only the 8 years of non-payment on his end, but also the interest and court costs accrued while he was gone on permanent vacation. I think that it is a pile dung that the court will earn $10,000 dollars or more simply because the wife filed a claim... The child should benefit not the city!

Neel fleed to Vanuatu a small chain of islands located about 1,000 miles east of Australia. Neel's tropical resort is surrounded by white sandy beaches, features a restaurant overlooking a lagoon and has the country's only full-service spa, according to its Web site. ... he and his new wife lived and operated a 21 room resort on a 16 acre island, he hosted fishing tournaments and oh ... and he owns the flip pin' island too! for the 8 years he lived there, I'd bet he never saw his children. he was originally ordered to pay $5k a month for his 2 children, if he needed it modified to a smaller amount because he wasn't making the money he used to, then he could have petitioned the courts to do so and it would have been an easy process if he could prove he didn't make the money he had in the past.

Much of what Neel owes is from interest. The principal is more than $300,000, Assistant U.S. Attorney Bud Paulissen said.

Sustaita did not elaborate during the hearing over the amount he believes Neel owes. That is expected to be brought up during the sentencing hearing.

Neel is a Texas native who attended Texas A&M University. A San Antonio federal grand jury indicted him in 2005 on a charge of foreign travel to evade child support obligations. He was arrested at a Los Angeles airport in December as he got off a flight from Australia.

I honestly have no sympathy for a guy that refuse to not take care of his kids. Pay the mother if you don't do anything else, you may have beat the system, but you deserve everything that you are going to get!