Posted on 03/13/2014 4:34:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Jones had been living in Deerfield Beach under the alias Bruce Walter Keith since at least 2005, the U.S. Marshals Service said
One of the U.S. Army’s “15 Most Wanted” fugitives – on the run since he escaped from a military prison in Kansas in 1977 – was arrested Thursday when he showed up for work in Pompano Beach, authorities said.
James Robert Jones, 59, had been using a fake Florida driver’s license since 1981 and had been living in Deerfield Beach under the alias Bruce Walter Keith since at least 2005, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
Accused Florida Theater Shooter Also Was Texting, Records Show The U.S. Army private was convicted of premeditated murder and aggravated assault in 1974, the Marshals Service said in a news release.
He was serving a 23-year sentence when he escaped from a maximum-security federal prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1977.
In January the Army asked for the Marshals Service' help finding Jones. Investigators used a facial recognition database and found a positive match for Jones, living under his alias in Florida.
PHOTOS: Weird News Members of the U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force surveilled Jones' residence Thursday morning and followed him to Pompano Beach, where they arrested him without incident when he arrived for work, the Marshals Service said.
A positive fingerprint match was taken from Jones at the Broward Sheriff's Office, according to the Marshals Service.
British Woman Gets 6-Year Sentence in Pompano Beach DUI Manslaughter Crash Jones has been booked into the Broward County Main Jail on a military hold, online jail records show. He will be held there until the U.S. Army takes custody, authorities said.
It wasn’t immediately known whether he has an attorney.
Jones changed his birth date on official documents, but used his actual birth year of 1954 and his real address in Deerfield Beach, the Marshals Service said.
Amazing.
Lots of them state workers getting so crooked they got to screw their socks on..!!
Uh, you left out one important detail. It took more than 30 years.
Just since early this year did the marshals get on it.
Actually what it amounts to is the cops today want to sit at the office and let the computers do their work for them.
In the old days, huh?
Love, Orly
That is probably not how they found him. Police very rarely want to disclose their real methods or sources.
Most likely they used contact tracing with a database of cell phone call records. If he ever called a relative or former friend in 30 years he would be traceable.
And of course there is always the classic informant who knows something about a person of-interest.
Why am I not comforted by this?
Just a hair split, but when I was in the Air Force even though you could threaten the troops with Leavenworth, at worst nobody would ever go there. It seems there was a long waiting list for it several years long. We could use federal prison as a threat, but them going to Leavenworth specifically most likely would never happen.
> In the old days you could forge a fake birth certificate fairly easy and fool the clerks.
In the old days, huh?
Love, Orly
Anybody that’s determined will always find a chink in the armor. You’re only limited by your imagination and resources...: )
He was on land, not underwater.
Late response.
That’s a real good point. It would be nice if our usual fact free news would try to acquire more details.
Black market? Using someone elses ID and S atanic. S lave N umber?
Yeah, but he had a 30 yr. head start. My post was supposed to sarc in it since the NSA knows when you go to the bathroom and whether you brush your teeth or take a leak.
I did not mean it literally.
Maybe they did. Was it the effective means by which they found their quarry with 30-year old photographs? I doubt it.
When I went to renew my driver's license there was a small delay at the counter. It seems that a computer-driven facial recognition system compared my new driver's license picture with my ten-year old driver's license picture and determined that these were not the same person.
Well - I did have more hair on the top of my head back then.
The clerk shrugged, checked my fingerprints, and moved things along. It seemed that "failure-to-match" was a common enough problem that they habitually skipped to the next step in their procedure.
The Government keeps a lot of lists - which accumulate a lot of errors that are never corrected. The latest technology allows them to keep more lists, and longer lists for all sorts of purposes.
What ever could possibly go wrong with that?
Who’s to say they haven’t found it?
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