Well, we've already learned that she has engaged in Social Security fraud, so I wouldn't exactly call her rehabilitated.
Well, we’ve already learned that she has engaged in Social Security fraud, so I wouldn’t exactly call her rehabilitated.
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Misappropriating the ID was part of the escape, which is also a crime you can add to her list. Three strikes for her.
Social Security fraud sounds like drawing funds fraudulently, faking disability or some such.
Lefevre was arrested on drug charges in the early 70’s. Growing up in Michigan, Lefevre says she fell into the wrong crowd when she was 19 years old. “there were just all these different drugs. [I] experimented and got involved in the wrong crowd,” says Lafevre.
Lefevre was later convicted on drug charges and sentenced to 10 - 20 years in prison. Lafevre said that she expected to get probation. “so it was a couple hundred dollars worth of drugs a transaction that my friend did, and I was just there in the car.”
She decided to ‘mitigate’ her own sentence and escaped by climbing over fence and fleeing from the Robert Scott Correctional facility in Detroit about a year into her sentence. “My grandfather was waiting a few blocks away. I thought they were going to shoot me, but I didn’t care, I just needed to get out there, it was a very wrong thing to do,” Said Lefevre.
I’ve been through 30 years of paying off a debt,” Lefevre says. “I hope that there is some consideration that I did turn my life around, that’s a very good way of putting it.”
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Susan LeFevre Biography
As a biography, Susan LeFevre, a.k.a. Marie Walsh, is age 53. She grew up in Thomas Township, Michigan where in 1972 she graduated from Arthur Hill High School. Police say that LeFevre was involved in selling heroin, and she was arrested after selling the drug to an undercover officer twice. At the time, investigators believed she was making $2,000 a week selling heroin. In her Saginaw, Michigan apartment, police found $500-$600 cash, drug paraphernalia, and photos indicating that she knew several top drug dealers in the area.
LeFevre was sentenced to 10-20 years on February 27, 1975. Because she was only a moderate flight risk while in prison, she was given a day pass to work in a clinic. On February 2, 1976, she left for work and never came back. Instead, she went to California, where in 1985 she married Alan Walsh.
The couple had been living happily in the Del Mar area of San Diego County with their three children for 23 years. Aside from having difficulty holding down a steady job because she bailed during the background check, Susan LeFevre was living a normal, upper-middle class life as Marie Walsh. That is, until a tip to the authorities led them to compare the fingerprints on record with the California DMV with those in Michigan. Since her arrest on April 24, LeFevre has been awaiting extradition to Michigan.
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LeFevre, now 53, was living as Marie Walsh in Del Mar, a suburb of San Diego, Hetherington said.
“She was living in an affluent neighborhood, in what is likely a $2 million home,” Hetherington said.
Her husband told officials he had no knowledge of her drug-checkered past and criminal record.
“Did he know? It’s hard to say, but it seems unlikely that he wouldn’t know,” Hetherington said.
LeFevre, by the time she was 21, had used the aliases Susan Grham, Susan LaFure, Susan LeFever, Susan LeFure and Susan M. LeFeure, police records show.
LeFevre initially denied her past, but after federal agents showed her their evidence of fingerprints and old photographs, she admitted who she was, Hetherington said.
Police arrested her when she was 19 for taking $600 from an undercover officer during a heroin drug sting in Thomas Township on Feb. 20, 1974, court records show. As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors dropped a charge of conspiracy to deliver heroin to agents Jan. 8, 1974.
“I basically lost my sister 30 years ago,” said her brother, David E. LeFevre, 52, of Ellington Township in Tuscola County, located between Caro and Cass City.
LeFevre said his sister “got into the wrong element so many years ago.”
“She got into a lot of parties, which lends itself into some drugs,” he said. “Years ago when I learned (of her involvement with drugs), it shocked me.
“My sister hung around a different group of people — musicians, no big celebrities. She kind of changed.”
LeFevre said he heard rumors of her life on the lam numerous times.
“At one time I heard she was living with a man who was the same age as my father, but I don’t know if it’s true,” he said.