When US Marshals approached James Robert Jones on a South Florida street Thursday morning last week, the man convicted of murdering a fellow Army private 40 years ago did not try to fight or flee, but surrendered peacefully, and will soon return to a maximum security prison, 37 years after he escaped.
The former Army private was convicted of murder in 1974, while stationed at New Jersey's Ft. Dix, and ordered to carry out his 23 year sentence at the US Disciplinary Barracks on Ft. Leavenworth.
In 1977 Jones escaped from the facility, the US Military's only maximum security prison, where imposing walls and towers earned it the nickname the "Castle." He spent the next 37 years on the lam.
Barry Golden, a senior inspector with the US Marshals Service in Miami, which coordinated the investigation that led to Jones arrest, described his initial escape nearly four decades ago as "very elaborate."
In January, Army investigators, believing Jones to now be living in Florida, contacted Golden's office for assistance. Marshals ran a prison photo of Jones through a database, and it matched closely with the photo on a Florida driver’s license first issued in 1981.
Marshals began observing the man they thought to be Jones, now living under the false name Bruce Keith, and on Thursday morning, arrested him outside his work location in nearby Pompano Beach.
According to Golden, Jones had been living a complete new life in Florida. He had "significant others," Golden told 41 Action News, declining to go into detail, and told investigators he was only one year from retirement.
Jones will soon be extradited back to Kansas to resume his sentence, Golden said, and will likely far additional charges related to his escape.
*Choi,this man would have been free by now oooh...ah ah.
Anywayshe is going into retirement in jail.....these investigators never give up sha
That is American police for you. For the man to hve first escaped right under their nose is a huge insult to them, so hunting and bringing him back is one way they will redeem back their image.
ReplyDelete@cynhams exactly
DeleteBLOG ANALYSER: this is one of the reasons I like American justice system.
ReplyDeleteIf it where to be in Nigeria the case would have been thing of the past.
ReplyDeleteBabe its "were". Thank me later.
DeleteThat's a country where things work.One can be sure no matter what happens,a victim would get justice irrespective of religious beliefs,economic status & ethnic leanings!
ReplyDeleteLook at his face like armpit
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The man go don tire to de hide sef, hence surrendering peacefully. Na there e go cool off till death comes knocking. But oyibo sha no de forget oh. Some people no fit step foot again for oyibo country. #alamaieseigha
ReplyDeleteKikikikikikikikikikiki_this is called "Nkata kpudu onye aghugho". Lol_aku fechaa odara awo infact this is agbacha oso aguo mile noni!
ReplyDeleteNne ibu nnoo ezigbo onye igbo. Nna gi muru gi
DeleteRetirement or not this man has lived life to the fullest,may the dead continue to rest in peace.
ReplyDeleteOk there. Is room 4 carry over!
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DeleteThat is why i like America, no matter how long it take's the law must catch up with you unlike Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteThe law of retributive justice...you disregard it only to your own hurt.
ReplyDeleteIf na for Naija, all the man has to say is that he has found God and dumb asses will begin saying, ah thank God o!, make dem forgive and forget am jaare. "God" will take control.
ReplyDeleteHow many significant others? As in two wives or being gay. I would have love some details.
ReplyDeleteScience has gone beyond cut and sew.
Astronomical!
In the United States, you can hide but you can't run!
ReplyDeleteIf na Naija.... Na 2 God be d glory/ case closed and 4gottn.
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ReplyDeleteThey have a separate unit within the police departments called Cold Case Unit which looks into cold case files and tries to track down people involved unsolved murders, escaped prisoners etc. They work in conjunction with the US Marshalls. If na Naija be dat, he for done stay gone forever. I don't know why we bother having a police department in Nigeria or a "justice" system when anyone can BUY the police and justice.
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