A man
was re-arrested again on Thursday after escaped a Kansas military prison in
1976 when he showed up to work in Florida.
James J. Robert, 59, was convicted of premeditated murder
and aggravated assault in 1974, when he was a private in the U.S. Army. Three
years later, he managed to escape imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth, where he
was serving a 23-year sentence.
Robert, who had lived in Deerfield Beach under the alias
Bruce Walter Keith since at least 2005, used a fake Florida driver’s license
since 1981 and his mother’s birthday with his real birth year.
U.S. Marshals, who the Army asked for help in January, found
Robert by running his old prison picture through a facial recognition database.
“He said that he knew this would catch up with him one day
for sure,” said Barry Golden of the Marshals Service.
Marshals followed Robert from his home to his work in
Pompano Beach Thursday morning and arrested him without any incident when he
arrived.
Robert was booked at the Broward County Main Jail on a
military hold and will remain there until the U.S. Army takes over.
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