 He was released on July 10, 2018.On March 23, 2009, Tábata's wife, Amalia Tábata Pereira, who is 23 years his senior, was arrested and charged with abduction after allegedly kidnapping a two-month-old girl in Florida by posing as an immigration officer; the baby was found unharmed in a shopping center later the same day.Tábata told the media that Pereira, whom he married in January 2008, had told him that she had given birth and that the baby was his.