Fugitive caught after 28 years

[bluestateguy]

Source: AP

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A man who escaped from a New Jersey prison 28 years ago was captured by authorities at his Philadelphia home Wednesday.

Maximo Jurado was at his home in Philadelphia when officers from several law enforcement agencies arrived around 10 a.m. The 75-year-old said his name was "Juan," but when he was shown a prison photo of himself from 1979, he confessed: "It's me."

Jurado left the state's since-closed Marlboro Camp, where he was serving time for a drug offense.

Jurado was not an especially notorious criminal -- though he had several run-ins with the law in the 1960s and 1970s -- and his escape didn't get much attention at the time. He managed to stay on the lam longer than all but a few people who have escaped from New Jersey prisons.

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Oooooh!! A DRUG OFFENSE 28 years ago! Won't somebody please THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!

[The Traveler]

1. I feel so much safer now

that this septuagenarian desperado is off the streets. :evilgrin:

[saigon68]

8. Me too now I can sleep at nite

</sarcasm>

[rAVES]

2. Justice finally caught up on this perp! *beams ridiculasly white teeth*

[madhoosier]

3. From the article;

Journalists from The Associated Press rode along with authorities when they arrested Jurado on Wednesday. He said that he managed to avoid being caught for all these years because he avoided breaking the law while, and moved around frequently.

28 years without getting your id. run by the police. He sounds like a model citizen to me.

[izquierdista]

4. It's good to know

That 50 and 60-ish men can be invisible to the Gestapo that go around asking to see your papers.
:hide: :hide: :hide: :hide:

[Progressive Friend]

5. Okay, he was captured. But how many Neocon war criminals are in jail so far? Zero.

[Hardrada]

6. When will they catch Kissinger?

[kay1864]

7. This was sad to read...

Surprisingly, the former drug dealer told authorities that escaping - and the fear of being captured - forced him to changed his life for the better.

"That's when I decided to stay out of trouble," he said. Between the time he escaped and his Wednesday arrest, he was never charged with a crime.

Jurado was being held in a Philadelphia jail awaiting extradition to New Jersey, where he will have to complete his original sentence. If convicted of escape, he could get up to five more years in prison.


FWIW, his conviction was for manufacturing and distributing drugs. Didn't say what kind though. Dunno if growing weed counts as "manufacturing", but given it was 1979, I'm guessing cocaine.