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US federal police said on Friday that they had caught a detainee who had escaped in 1971 during his grandmother’s funeral, AFP reported.
Leonard Moses was serving a life sentence at the time after being convicted in 1968 of killing a Pittsburgh resident, according to an FBI statement.
After the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, several riots broke out in this northeastern city, and Leonard Moses, along with some colleagues, threw Molotov cocktails at a house.
The woman who lived in that house, Mary Alpo, died from the combined effects of burns and pneumonia.
Leonard Moses escaped at his grandmother’s funeral.
After the escape, the young man rebuilds his life under the name ‘Paul Dickson’ and works, at least since 1999, as a pharmacist in the state of Michigan, says the FBI.
In 2016, the Federal Police resumed their investigation, questioned their relatives again, offered a reward and made a special number available to receive information on this matter.
Although more than 2,000 pieces of information were collected, “we were unable to locate or arrest Leonard Moses,” Michael Christman, an FBI official, said at a news conference in Pittsburgh.
However, earlier this year, he was arrested and charged in Michigan in a separate investigation, about which the FBI declined to provide details.
However, court documents show that one Paul Dickson, born in 1949, was charged in this state in April with fraud and illegal prescription of controlled substances.
As part of this procedure, their fingerprints were entered into a local computer system and finally verified through a federal database.
He was arrested Thursday without incident at his home in Grand Blanc, Michigan, and must be transferred to Pennsylvania to be brought to justice, Christman said.
