EXCLUSIVE: Twenty-three years after Duane "Dog" Chapman chased fugitive Max Factor heir Andrew Luster to Mexico and tackled him on a Puerto Vallarta street, the convicted serial rapist is a free man â despite an initial sentence of 124 years."I hope he's smart enough â and he's smart â to never do anything like that again," Chapman told Fox News Digital Wednesday, more than two decades after the capture that helped make him a household name."I screamed, 'You're under arrest by the United States of America.'" â Dog the Bounty HunterMAX FACTOR HEIR'S FORMER LAWYER DETAILS JUDGE'S ERROR THAT WIPED OUT 124-YEAR RAPE SENTENCEAndrew Luster sits in the back seat of a vehicle following his capture in Mexico in 2003.Luster fled the United States during his sexual assault trial before being captured by bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman.
(Getty Images)Chapman, his son Leland and several others went to Mexico after receiving a tip about Luster's whereabouts â months after he fled the U.S.in the middle of a California rape trial.
They first identified him from the tipsters' photo, which showed a knee and a watch.'AMERICA'S MOST WANTED' EX-COP FUGITIVE RETURNED AFTER 20 YEARS ON THE RUN TO FACE MURDER, CHILD SEX CHARGESChapman had been studying his face closely for weeks, but he also recognized the watch from a televised interview, he said.And he credits his son with first spotting Luster, who was speaking with a young woman in a bar on June 18, 2003.PARENTS OF SLAIN PREGNANT MOM CHRISTA GILLEY DEMAND LEE GILLEY'S RETURN FROM ITALY FOR MURDER CASE"When I saw him, you talk about an adrenaline rush went through my body," Chapman told Fox News Digital Wednesday.
"Tim got down...he snuck up behind him, and then I pushed him.He fell over.
We all jumped on him, and I screamed, 'You're under arrest by the United States of America.'"EXCLUSIVE: FBI EXTRADITIONS SOAR AS PATEL RAMPS UP FOREIGN OUTREACH, VOWS 'NO SANCTUARY'They pulled him into an SUV and drove of...