Fugitive News

Lisbon court places US fugitive under house arrest

By theGrio

2:28 PM on 10/14/2011

LISBON, Portugal (AP) - A court has allowed captured American fugitive George Wright to leave jail and stay at his Portuguese home while he fights extradition to the U.S., his lawyer said Friday...
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Hijacking fugitive's wife: I didn't know about his past

By theGrio

8:35 AM on 10/03/2011

LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Maria do Rosario Valente said she was shocked to learn about her husband's past after his capture in Portugal last week after 41 years on the lam...
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Feds arrest rap mogul 'Jimmy Henchmen' on drug charges

By theGrio

2:40 PM on 06/21/2011

(AP) - The fugitive was also recently accused by a convicted murderer of orchestrating a plot to ambush rapper Tupac Shakur outside a recording studio in the mid-1990s...
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Homemade cloth rope aids St. Louis jail escape

By theGrio

1:57 PM on 04/22/2011

ST. LOUIS (AP) - A "knuckle-headed corrections officer" is to blame for the escape of two men who apparently climbed down a homemade rope Friday morning to escape from a St. Louis detention center...
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Delaware police search for escaped inmate

By theGrio

8:41 AM on 04/11/2011

PHILADELPHIA - Delaware State police are currently searching for an inmate who walked away from the Webb Correctional Center Sunday...
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Day care operator pleads not guilty in fatal fire

By theGrio

3:08 PM on 03/23/2011

HOUSTON (AP) - A woman who fled to Nigeria after a fire at her Texas home day care center killed four children has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and other charges...
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Police: Fugitive drug lord arrested in Jamaica

By theGrio

8:33 PM on 06/22/2010

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - Christopher "Dudus" Coke has been called one of the world's most dangerous drug lords by U.S. authorities and faces trial in New York on drug and arms trafficking charges...
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Sword-wielding porn actor falls off cliff in police stand-off, dies

By theGrio

8:26 AM on 06/07/2010

A "less than lethal munition" was used against Stephen Clancy Hill just before he fell...
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Porn actor uses prop sword in alleged colleague attack

By theGrio

5:06 PM on 06/02/2010

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Steven Hill is suspected of killing one colleague and injuring two others after he was evicted from a production studio where he had been living...
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Local rapper on the run taunts police in lyrics

By theGrio

5:00 PM on 07/08/2009

Christopher Trent of Jennings, Louisiana is a fugitive on the run. Since April of last year Trent has been evading officers who are looking for him for allegedly committing several sex crimes against young girls. "We had several complaints from different parents about the subject having carnal knowledge of their...
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