50 years after he fled … the United States arrested him



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The Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States (FBI) announced on Friday the arrest of a prisoner who has been in hiding since 1971, after he escaped while participating in the funeral of his grandmother.

Leonard Moses was serving a life sentence after he was found guilty in 1968 of the murder of a woman who resided in Pittsburgh, according to an FBI statement.

After the assassination of the symbol of the fight for civil rights, Martin Luther King, demonstrations broke out in this city in the northeastern United States, Leonard Moses, along with others, threw a firebomb at a house.

The resident of the house, Mary Albu, who suffered from pneumonia, suffered severe burns that led to her death.

Leonard Moses managed to escape while attending his grandmother’s funeral in 1971.

After his escape, Moses continued his life in the act of posing as a new character, calling himself “Paul Dickson” and since at least 1999 he had been working as a pharmacist in Michigan, according to the “FBI.”

And in 2016, the Federal Police relaunched the investigations and again questioned his relatives, offered a monetary reward and assigned a number to collect information on Leonard Moses.
“We have failed to locate and arrest Leonard Moses,” said Michael Christman, an “FBI” official, during a news conference in Pittsburgh.

However, at the beginning of the year, the Federal Police managed to arrest him again and charge him in the context of a separate investigation, the FBI did not clarify his nature.

Court documents show that a person named Paul Dickson, born in 1949, has faced legal charges in this state since April for participating in counterfeiting and providing illegal prescriptions for controlled substances.

As part of this journey, their fingerprints were entered into a local information system before being compared to a federal database.

Christman said the man was arrested Thursday at his Michigan home without any problem, to be transferred to Pennsylvania “to face justice.”

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