A wanted man with a decades-long criminal history was arrested Saturday after a multi-agency effort led the authorities to a home in Maricopa’s Cobblestone Farms neighborhood, where he was believed to be staying with his wife.

George Martinez was found by Maricopa Police Department officers just before noon Saturday in a back bedroom of a house on Pioneer Road. The arrest followed an agency assistance request from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, which was searching for Martinez in connection with an extraditable, active felony warrant carrying a $75,000 bond.

Court documents show the warrant was related to a 2019 aggravated DUI case in Maricopa County Superior Court, to which Martinez pleaded guilty. The documents reveal that he was also convicted of escaping custody while charged with a felony in California in 1994.

Martinez moved from Bakersfield, Calif., to metro Phoenix sometime after 2010.

Superior court Judge Monica Garfinkel sentenced Martinez in December 2021 to 4½ years in prison and ordered him to pay $3,153 in legal fees. He would have been set for release Nov. 13 of this year. It remains unclear when he was released from custody, but at the time of his arrest, he was on parole and considered a wanted man.

The home in Maricopa where he was found was purchased by his wife, Yvonne DeCasas, 59, in January 2021. The sale closed nine days after a freshly sentenced Martinez petitioned the court from prison for post-conviction relief. That request was denied.

According to Maricopa police, DeCasas complied when officers at her front door told her to give up her husband. She was unmarried when she bought the Cobblestone Farms home with another man, Bryann Carbajal, according to a warranty deed filed in the Pinal County Recorder’s Office.

It’s unclear when she married Martinez, only that it happened after he was paroled.

Martinez’s criminal record spans many jurisdictions and decades. In 2022, he pleaded guilty to aggravated harassment in Pinal County Superior Court. He also pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal trespass in the same court in 2018. His history includes dozens of arrests in Riverside County, Calif., for charges including grand theft auto and corporal injury. In 2018, while in Apache Junction, he was charged with three counts of fighting and two counts of assault. He then failed to appear in court for six consecutive years, accumulating various warrants.

Throughout that time, Martinez was getting mercilessly sued by his San Tan Valley homeowners association, insurance companies, banks and creditors, according to civil court records.

Altogether, Martinez has faced more than 50 criminal charges across Arizona — from Maricopa to Mesa, Phoenix to Quartzsite — and in Southern California, according to public records aggregators.

Following his arrest, Martinez was transported to the Pinal County jail, where he remained Monday.