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answered the phone.
James told the FBI worker that a few years before, he had gotten away from the jail where he was held because of committing a serious crime. However, he also added he was a new men then and that he just wanted to spend a weekend in his hometown (in Texas) without having to worry about police officers trying to arrest him.
“Despite thinking that the man was lying to me, I asked him his name. When he said it I couldn’t believe it”, told the FBI woman to the reporters. Since Sanders seemed not to be realizing he was turning himself in to the police, he was asked to go from California (where he was living) to Texas. The FBI told Sanders that they just wanted
To know some more things about his life, nothing important. The man,(who suffers from a mental illness due to his age) accepted their offer.
When James got to the FBI station, some witnesses of his first crime were waiting for them to ensure he was the real James Sanders. “It’s the same man I saw 40 years ago, he’s definitely not a fake”, said one them. So he was immediately arrested. Furthermore, he will now get a prison sentence of 6 more years.
What’s more surprising is the fact that it isn’t the first time that something like this happens. Do you still remember the burglar Isa Hemsworth?
By: Pilar Muñoz Barrera
Las night, fugitive James Sanders, who escaped from jail in 1975, was arrested in Texas after ringing the FBI to ask whether he was still on its “wanted “ list or not.
James Sanders, 65, was charged with murder after crashing his car into a school bus. Moreover, he stabbed a police officer too. Sanders, who had always been really skilful, escaped from jail through a tunnel he dug by himself just with a spoon and a fork. Although he was looked for for about five years, he never got found. Until now.
Last night, at around 9 o’clock, the FBI in Texas received a call from an old man who asked if he was still on the “wanted criminals” list. “In that moment I was so shocked I didn’t know what to respond”, said the woman that . 1