BOSTON (AP) – A man who fled the country six years ago after allegedly driving through an intersection while drunk and fatally injuring an East Bridgewater woman has been detained by police in Kenya, prosecutors said Thursday.

Karoli Muliro, 48, allegedly hit Julie Adams with his van as she was crossing a street on her way to work as a nurse’s assistant at Beth Israel Hospital in February 1998.

Police said Muliro was driving too fast and went straight through the intersection in the “right turn only” lane when he hit Adams. His blood alcohol level was 0.14, above the legal limit, police said.

The accident left Adams, then 24, in a coma with serious brain damage. Adams was taken off life support and died in November 1999, after 21 months in which she showed no sign of recovery.

Muliro, a Kenyan national who was living in Boston on an expired student visa, was free on bail when Adams died. He didn’t show up at court in December 1999 to answer an upgraded charge of motor vehicle homicide, and has been on the run since.

Earlier this fall, the FBI learned Muliro was living in Kitale, an agricultural region of Kenya about 200 miles northwest of Nairobi. Kenyan police arrested Muliro on Dec. 4 after Suffolk County prosecutors filed warrants for his arrest with Interpol and with the U.S. embassy in Nairobi.

Muliro was ordered held on $4,100 bond and ordered to surrender his passport. Suffolk County officials are working on getting Muliro extradited to Boston.

“There is no length, no distance, to which we will not go to see justice done for Miss Adams or any other victim,” District Attorney Daniel Conley said in a statement.