Alexander Mahone joined the army shortly after he turned 18. He began as a low-level grunt and worked his way up the ranks to Special Operative in the first Gulf War.From there Mahone became an FBI Agent. His reputation grew as he apprehended criminal after criminal, but got some negative attention when he took on the case of Oscar Shales. He never officially caught the fugitive but he served his own swift form of vigilante justice. He murdered Shales and buried him. Charges were never brought.Agent Mahone’s next case was the Fox River 8. He methodically tracked down the escapees. And, one by one, administered his own brand of justice, killing many of them in cold blood. But the capture of the mastermind, Michael Scofield, eluded him. Mahone went as far as enlisting the help of a former guard and (and later, inmate) of Fox River, Brad Bellick.Agent Mahone chased Scofield all the way to Panama. But by then Mahone wasn’t concerned with putting Scofield back behind bars. Mahone had cut all ties with the FBI and hoped to take the money Scofield had dug up with the other escapees and start a new life with his wife and family in Columbia. This plan ended up back firing when an anonymous tip to the Panamanian police informed them that Mahone could be found on a sailboat filled with cocaine and attempting to cross through the Panama Canal. The Panamanian Police took Mahone, who maintains he was set up, into custody.Mahone now faces charges of possession of a narcotic with intent to traffic and awaits trial in Sona.