Escaped inmate found 16 years later in parents' home
AFP
OTTAWA- A US fugitive who walked away from a South Dakota prison 16 years ago has been found living a secret family life on a Canadian aboriginal reserve where he was born, police said Thursday.
According to police and local media, Clifford Laframboise, 42, was given up for adoption as a baby by his Canadian parents to an American couple.
In 1988, he was sentenced by a US court to 18 years in prison for a series of burglaries, but walked away from the minimum security South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls six years later, and had been sought ever since.
He was the US state's longest at-large escapee, until this week.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Miles Hiebert told AFP that Laframboise was arrested on January 10 after they found him living on the Jackhead First Nation reservation about 300 kilometers (186 miles) north of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
In 2009, US authorities on a hunch had asked the RCMP to try to locate him in Canada. He was arrested under the name Clifford Thomas for unrelated crimes in 2010 and released.
The RCMP later matched his identity to the US warrant and rearrested him.
By then, Laframboise was married and raising six children. He had originally come to Jackhead in search of his parents, his wife Ora Sinclair told the Winnipeg Free Press newspaper.
"He knew that this would come sooner or later," she added.
Laframboise now faces extradition to the United States to serve the remainder of his sentence.
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He was the US state's longest at-large escapee, until this week.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Miles Hiebert told AFP that Laframboise was arrested on January 10 after they found him living on the Jackhead First Nation reservation about 300 kilometers (186 miles) north of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
In 2009, US authorities on a hunch had asked the RCMP to try to locate him in Canada. He was arrested under the name Clifford Thomas for unrelated crimes in 2010 and released.
The RCMP later matched his identity to the US warrant and rearrested him.
By then, Laframboise was married and raising six children. He had originally come to Jackhead in search of his parents, his wife Ora Sinclair told the Winnipeg Free Press newspaper.
"He knew that this would come sooner or later," she added.
Laframboise now faces extradition to the United States to serve the remainder of his sentence.
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