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| Inmate caught 44 years after fleeing jail |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/15/2004 |
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A man was arrested at his Florida home March 5, nearly 44 years after he escaped from a Georgia prison work detail, officials said. Authorities learned who Eddie Mayes was after he visited his son at a prison in Avon Park in December and wrote his real name on a visitors list, the Fort Pierce Tribune reported. A routine check of the names identified him as a fugitive. Mayes, now 67, was serving a 35-year sentence for multiple burglary and robbery when he stepped away from the work detail in 1960 to get a drink of water and never returned, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. His sentence had begun in 1956. Mayes, who used the name Eddie Miller, served a month in jail in 1982 for transporting citrus without a trip ticket, but his identity was not discovered, authorities said. Mayes was being held without bond March 5 at the St. Lucie County Jail, awaiting extradition to Georgia. |
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