“Because I wanted to clear up my name,” Proctor said.

In 1985 Proctor, a soldier stationed at Fort Lewis, was accused of assaulting an undercover sheriff’s deputy outside a motel in Lakewood, as the deputy arrested his wife Brenda for prostitution.

Proctor pleaded guilty on April 30, 1985, and was sentenced to 30 days in jail, before vanishing with his wife.

Over the weekend Proctor showed up at the Pierce County Jail ready to do the time he ran from two decades ago.

“How unusual is it in your experience to have someone with this kind of charge, 22 years later just come back and say ‘I’m here to do my time?’” KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Kevin McCarty asked Deputy Pierce County Prosecutor Phil Sorenson.

“Pretty unusual,” Sorenson said.

According to prosecutors, Proctor will probably do about 90 days in jail, but his wife Brenda, who is still a fugitive, has a 22-year-old arrest warrant waiting.

Proctor said he hasn’t seen his ex-wife Brenda in nearly 20 years, and after he left the northwest he served time in federal prison on drug charges.

Proctor told McCarty he spent the last few dollars he had to fly from his home back east to surrender.