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Escaped prisoner from Georgia arrested in Lauderdale Lakes after 34 years as fugitive
By local10.com- Peter Burke
Published: 08/07/2015

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. -

A fugitive who escaped from a Georgia prison in 1981 has been caught in South Florida.

U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Barry Golden told Local10.com that Willie Lee Austin was apprehended Thursday morning at a home in Lauderdale Lakes.

Golden said Austin disappeared after escaping from Central State Prison in Georgia.

Austin had remained a fugitive for 34 years until U.S. marshals in Georgia developed information that Austin might be living in South Florida under an alias, Golden said.

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