Results tagged “fugitive”

Newark is in the middle of a four-day "Safe Surrender" program, which allows fugitives with open warrants for non-violent crimes "favorable consideration" for turning themselves in. One such fugitive was a 36-year-old man whose many traffic tickets and failure to pay them prevented him from getting a job or driver's license; after a judge dismissed some charges and consolidated his fines, he said, "I was a little leery about it at first. But the program is excellent. It is what they say." Nearly one thousand have turned themselves in.

When news broke that alleged Pan Am hijacker Luis Armando Peña Soltren—the FBI's longest wanted fugitive—had turned himself over to authorities yesterday, it seemed probable that Soltren had worked out a plea deal in exchange for surrendering after more than four decades in exile. But today Soltren pleaded not guilty to participating in the 1968 hijacking of a Pan Am flight from New York and rerouting it to Havana, where he has lived ever since.

A lawyer for Miladin Kovacevic says that the 6'9" 260 lb. basketball player doesn't trust the U.S. legal system and was taunted and tortured by inmates and guards after he was arrested for allegedly beating a 135 lb. college senior into a coma in Binghamton last month. Veselin Cerovic explained that's why Kovacevic jumped bail and fled the country with an emergency passport issued by the Serbian consulate in New York, "My client told me that he did not flee to hide from justice, but because he doesn't believe in the American justice system."

Samuel Israel, the hedge fund founder who went missing just as he was supposed to report to prison for 20 years, is reportedly in police custody after surrendering early this morning. The NY Times reports Israel had been in Southwick, Massachusetts where he "was talking to his mother on the phone when he walked into a local jail and surrendered to the United States Marshals task force."

A 29-year-old man who worked for a high-end Manhattan childcare service is on the run after cops were notified his home computer contained thousands of child pornography images. Fred Hardy worked for the Lipton Child Care Center on 55th St. and Park Ave. in Manhattan. When police arrived to question him about the trove of disgusting images on May 15th, his employers at Lipton said that he'd been fired that day.