RIVERSIDE — Two Inland Empire men wanted on charges ranging from child molestation to murder were brought back to the United States this week by a fugitive apprehension team that located one defendant in Mexico and the other in Israel, the FBI announced Friday.

Donald Edward Nelson, 59, of Corona and Juan Antonio Herrera, 30, of San Bernardino spent months on the lam before investigators with the Inland Regional Apprehension Team, made up of local and federal law enforcement personnel, determined their whereabouts, according to the FBI.

Herrera was returned to the United States on Oct. 28, and Nelson was brought back Friday, said the FBI's Laura Eimiller.

She said Nelson vanished just before his trial was set to start in Riverside County Superior Court in January.

The defendant is charged with 52 counts of lewd acts on a child stemming from alleged encounters with preteen victims going back to the mid-1980s.

Herrera is accused in a March 2008 fatal shooting in San Bernardino.