Posted on 04/30/2008 3:11:33 PM PDT by an amused spectator
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. marshals office in Grand Rapids says a woman who walked away from a Detroit-area prison in 1976 after being convicted on drug charges has been recaptured in California.
Deputies say Susan Lefevre was living under the name of Marie Walsh in the San Diego suburb of Del Mar, Calif., when she was arrested Thursday at her home in an affluent neighborhood.
Lefevre told them her husband and two children had no idea of her criminal conviction 32 years ago in Saginaw County or her escape from what now is the Robert Scott Correctional Facility in Northville Township.
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Hey, the goobermint needs more money to fight crime, eh?
So pony up, taxpayers.
We're protecting you from Susan Lefevre and Wesley Snipes...
I feel sorry for her husband and kids who had no idea...but she needs to go back and pay her debt. Otherwise, justice means nothing. Run away and hide long enough and you are exonerateed? I think that would be a pretty slippery slope.
I don’t know. At that time there were very, very serious penalties for even the smallest amounts of drugs. She just might have been someone who was caught with a joint and got 20 years - I think that kind of thing happened at that time or earlier.
If she has managed to live a crime free and productive life for the past 32 years, the system can arguably count that as a successful rehabilitation, I suppose.
Stoopid war on drugs! I was able to find this. Back then you could get “forever” if you were caught with a seed in many states.
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In jailhouse interviews, Walsh — who initially tried to deny her past when confronted by federal officers on Thursday — described the offense for which she was convicted as a low-level crime.
“It was a couple hundred dollars worth of drugs, a transaction that my friend did, and I was there in the car,” she told a local television station.
Walsh said she “just got in with the wrong crowd” as a teenager and was “experimenting” with drugs when she was arrested for allegedly dealing cocaine and heroin in 1975.
After a year at a detention camp, Walsh managed to escape by climbing a fence.
“And my grandfather was waiting ... a few blocks away,” she told the news station. “And the helicopters were overhead. I thought maybe they would shoot at me, and I just really didn’t care. I had to get out of there. And it was a very wrong thing to do.”
Walsh, who has lived in Carmel Valley for 10 years, said her family knew nothing of her former identity and fugitive status prior to her arrest.
Walsh characterized her reformed, family-oriented ways as grounds for mercy and lenience when she faces justice again in the Midwest.
“I’ve been through 30 years of paying off a debt (to society),” she said. “I hope that there’s some consideration for the fact that I did turn my life around.”
Is that not exactly what was in the defeated Immigration Bill? Evade being caught for 5 years and all is forgiven. Or am I wrong?
10 20 years was for a serious crime.
I could get that for murder.
She had some good fortune in eluding capture for so long.
Now those times are over.
This is just government OCD vengeance. They blew thousands and thousands of taxpayer dollars, state and federal, to make this useless "pinch".
A reasonable person would have assessed the situation and let it slide.
In jailhouse interviews, Walsh — who initially tried to deny her past when confronted by federal officers on Thursday — described the offense for which she was convicted as a low-level crime.
“It was a couple hundred dollars worth of drugs, a transaction that my friend did, and I was there in the car,” she told a local television station
LOL! Yeah right, theres an unbiased source.
Yes! The ‘War on Drugs’ has kept many a LEO employed and many, many lives ruined. This is very likely a textbook case of that given how she has lived her life for the past 30 years.
Yes, some call it the “Forgotten War” while most of us know it as “The War on Drugs.”
If we are to be victorious in the War on Drugs we need to drag this women by her hair all the way to GitMo and lock her there for the rest of her life.
Perhaps if we give her a little electric shock to sensitive parts of her body she will give up her fellow drug using friends from back in 1976 the year of our Bicentennial.
It’s a local story here. I live about three miles from the prison. She admits she was a user but a friend claimed she was dealing and she was caught with some a small amount of cocaine and a vial of morphine. She was told she would probably get a year’s probation if she plead guilty. Instead she was hit with 10-20 year sentence. Her grandfather and another relative helped her escape after serving one year.
I read her account, and I also read the account of "the authorities":
"However, Michigan authorities said Wednesday that Lefevre was a major drug trafficker whose drug-dealing operation was making about $2,000 a week selling heroin. Undercover officers bought from her at least twice and a search of her Saginaw apartment turned up $500 to $600 in cash, paraphernalia for cutting heroin and photos that showed she was acquainted with the “higher-ups” in the Saginaw drug world"
Scarface!
I don’t know. Sometimes I think if you want to take drugs and possibly die, it’s your business if you don’t harm anyone in the process. I think an enormous amount of money and time is wasted on people that are perhaps harming no one but themselves.
How about just penalties on the dealers or sellers. How about users just being in cheaper half way houses and working until they’ve served their time and are clean.
Our real enemies are the leftist traitors and Islamofascists. And Hollywood, the MSM, the illegals, etc.
A FoxNews article said that she was ratted out by someone who made an annonymous phone call. I wonder what the gain was on that?
Well, except for the REALLY IMPORTANT stuff...
;-)
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