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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced Friday the arrest of a prisoner who has been in hiding since 1971 after he escaped while participating in his grandmother’s funeral.
Leonard Moses was serving a life sentence following his 1968 conviction for murdering a woman who resided in Pittsburgh, according to a statement, “The FBI.”
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, and Leonard Moses, along with others, threw a fire bomb 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 participating in his grandmother’s funeral.
After his escape, Moses continued his life in the act of posing as a new character, calling himself “Paul Dickson” and had been working since at least 1999 as a pharmacist in Michigan, according to the “FBI.”
And in 2016, the FBI relaunched the investigations, re-questioning his relatives, offered a monetary reward and assigned a number to gather 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.
But at the beginning of the year, the Federal Police managed to detain him again and charge him in the framework 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 court charges in this state since April for his involvement in counterfeiting and supplying 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 68-year-old man was detained Thursday at his home in Michigan without any problem, to be transferred to Pennsylvania “to face justice.”
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