The father of a missing Hazleton boy who was located on a South Pacific island last week has been returned to the United States, an FBI spokeswoman said.

Jeffrey Hanson, 46, arrived back in the country in the custody of members of the FBI's Seattle Safe Streets Task Force, Ayn Dietrich-Williams media coordinator, FBI Seattle Division, said.Hanson is scheduled to make a court appearance in Los Angeles this afternoon in connection with the September disappearance of his son, Billy Hanson, 9, of Hazleton.Jeffrey Hanson faces a charge of international parental kidnapping."The FBI continues to work with the Department of Justice and Department of State to reunite nine-year-old Billy Hanson with his mother," Dietrich-Williams said.According to KIRO-TV, a CBS affiliate in Seattle, Billy had been visiting with his father, staying on the man's boat at the Shilshole Bay Marina in Seattle. Billy was supposed to be returned to his mother, Joanna Hanson, in Hazleton, on Sept. 4 but never boarded the flight home, the TV station reported.Father and son were found on the island of Niue, about 1,500 miles northeast of New Zealand, last week.According to Dietrich-Williams:The Niue Police Department arrested Hanson on Oct. 29, at his sailboat Draco, which was illegally docked on Niue shores after Hanson allegedly failed to seek admittance through Niue immigration and customs officials."The Niue police knew of the warrant for Hanson's arrest after the FBI's Legal Attaché office in Canberra, Australia, passed the missing person and wanted fliers to the Pacific Transnational Crime Coordination Center, a multinational law enforcement network, in which the Niue Police Department is a member," Dietrich-Williams wrote. "Niue police publicized the search for Hanson in the country and alert members of the public provided the crucial tip that led authorities to Billy and Jeffrey Hanson."The FBI asked for the assistance of FBI offices down the West coast, in Hawaii and Alaska, and in Mexico and Australia, in spreading the word of the search widely, including locations where investigators had information suggesting Jeffrey Hanson had previously traveled.