NEW ULM — A mother and her 13-year-old son who fled rather than face chemotherapy for the boy’s cancer returned home by plane Monday, Brown County Sheriff Rich Hoffmann said.

Hoffmann said Colleen and Daniel Hauser were reunited with their family at their Sleepy Eye farm, and one of the Hausers’ lawyers, Tom Hagen, said Daniel Hauser was evaluated in a Twin Cities hospital on Monday.

He said he wasn’t sure if Daniel Hauser stayed at the hospital overnight.

According to Calvin Johnson, the Hausers’ chief attorney, Daniel’s father, Anthony, listed Fairview Hospital as the place where he’d like to be evaluated. A hospital spokeswoman said no one with Daniel’s name was checked in Monday evening.

Still, the family does not appear to have changed their minds about treating Daniel Hauser’s Hodgkin’s lymphoma with chemotherapy, which violates their spiritual beliefs. Colleen and Daniel Hauser missed a May 19 court hearing where District Court Judge John Rodenberg learned Daniel’s tumor had grown.

Hoffmann said he didn’t know whether a new court hearing had been scheduled.

He said the county’s arrest warrant against Colleen Hauser had been dropped, and that his department no longer has any involvement with the case.

Brown County Attorney Jim Olson said Brown County Family Services is still Daniel Hauser’s custodian, but “my understanding is that he was coming home tonight back to the farm place in Sleepy Eye.”

Colleen and Daniel Hauser landed in New Ulm at 3 a.m. on a charter flight paid for by a Corona, Calif., movie production company called Asgaard Media. Hoffmann didn’t explain the company’s connection to the Hausers, and they did not return an e-mail seeking comment.

A short movie provided by Asgaard Media and handed out at the press conference depicts an interview of Colleen and Daniel Hauser followed by a plane trip, presumably back to Minnesota.

The movie doesn’t explain what the pair were doing in California, where they were sighted May 19.

In the movie, Colleen Hauser repeats her belief that her son will survive.

“He knows he can beat it. He knows he’s gonna beat it,” she said.

At one point, an interviewer asks Daniel Hauser what he’d like to say to those who think he’s too young to make medical decisions.

“I’d tell them to back off,” he said.

Hoffmann also declined to speak about Colleen and Daniel Hausers’ time in California, including whether they sought treatment there or in Mexico.

Also connected with Colleen and Daniel Hausers’ return is California attorney Jennifer Keller, who contacted Brown County on Sunday and said Colleen wanted to bring Daniel home.

Keller didn’t return a phone message seeking comment.

Last week, Anthony Hauser made a public plea for his wife and son to “come back and be safe and be a family again.” Hoffmann declined to say whether that was the reason Colleen Hauser decided to return.

Daniel Hauser was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma Jan. 23 and received what was to be the first of six rounds of chemotherapy Feb. 5. But he didn’t return for a March session, and Brown County filed a child neglect petition.

Judge Rodenberg ruled May 15 that Daniel Hauser would have to receive an X-ray and the family would have to choose a cancer specialist. The X-ray was taken, but it wasn’t clear if a specialist had been chosen.

Daniel Hauser and his mother say using chemotherapy is against their spiritual beliefs, called Nemenhah. They are also Catholic. In place of chemotherapy, Colleen Hauser developed a regimen that stresses diet and includes supplements, herbs and water with a more acidic pH.