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Fugitive Watch: Robert Dawson Arrested While Applying For Security Guard Job After 20 Years On The Run
Monday, May 17, 2010 at 10:00 am
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What exactly a 76-year-old man was doing applying for job is your guess, dear reader. We're simply going on the assumption that there aren't too many pensions available to folks on the lam.
Either way, Robert Dawson should have probably perused his possibilities for employment a tad more carefully. After all, 20 years ago he ran after being charged with burglary and has been a fugitive ever since.
Maybe Mr. Dawson hoped that the busy law enforcement officers of Deltona, Florida had simply just forget about his trespass. Unfortunately, they didn't.
When Dawson went to apply for a position as a security guard, part of the application process required him to submit fingerprints -- a likely turn off for most wanted men and women. But not for Dawson.
He happily submitted his singular proof of identity and then went on his merry way. That's when the security guard firm ran his prints through the FBI's database. Unfortunately for Dawson, what turned up didn't land him the job -- but back in prison.
Dawson had been a wanted man in Texas for at least two decades.
It's not clear exactly what Dawson's initial crime was, but it was certain that he was on parole when he committed his second crime -- armed robbery. Apparently, when Dawson was busted in 1990, Texas authorities listed him as "armed and dangerous."
But his family in Florida, who know him as Robert Evans, claim that he was anything but a dangerous felon. He'd been married for 11 years, and his step-daughter said he was a trucker and a loving father.
When police finally showed up at Dawson's door to arrest him, he resisted arrest and denied his real identity. Giving Dawson the benefit of the doubt, local law enforcement ran his prints again. Sure enough, he was the Texas burglar they'd been looking for.
At that point, Dawson claimed that Texas authorities always knew where he was and could have come to get him at any time. He now faces charges for being a fugitive as well as resisting arrest.
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