LEWISTON – Once listed as one of the area’s most wanted fugitives, 30-year-old Antonio “Monk” Rembert has been ordered to spend four years in prison.

Rembert, the subject of a fugitive roundup earlier this year, was ordered to serve three years for aggravated assault and one year for failing to appear in court.

The Androscoggin County Superior Court sentence brings to an end a case that brought notoriety to the local man, who was named in news reports for weeks before he was captured Feb. 21 in Florida.

Since January, police had been searching for Rembert on charges that he failed to show up in court to answer a charge of aggravated assault. That charge stemmed from a September incident during which police say Rembert stabbed a 22-year-old man several times in the chest and stomach during a fight in Auburn.

Rembert was arrested shortly after the stabbing. He was released on bail in January, but then failed to show up in court for a scheduled hearing. Police began to search for him immediately.

In February, after Rembert was featured in “The Fugitive Files,” a joint effort between WGME and the Sun Journal, local police received a tip that he was staying at a home in Hollywood, Fla.

Police in that state surrounded the home and captured Rembert after a short foot chase. He was later returned to Maine, where he was found guilty of the charges against him.

Rembert has an extensive criminal history in the area, dating back to 1995 when he was arrested on a charge of threatening a store clerk with a lighter during a downtown robbery. In 1998, police arrested him on federal charges for brandishing a shotgun during a fight at Pleasantview Acres. He served three years in prison on that charge.