A prisoner who got away from a South Carolina Department of Corrections work group in 1979 was caught in Delaware on New Year’s Day, as indicated by the office.
Jose Chico Romero, 64, had been living under an accepted name when he was first captured December 28, 2019 in the wake of demonstrating Dover police a phony ID, as indicated by Chrysti Shain, executive of interchanges for the South Carolina Department of Corrections.
Police prepared and discharged him under the phony name Arnaldo Figueroa yet his fingerprints later returned as a counterpart for needed Romero.
He was captured on Wednesday.
He is being held in Georgetown, Delaware, on an outlaw warrant and has waived extradition.
He is likewise accused of open inebriation, standing around, trespassing, falsification, criminal pantomime and being an out-of-state outlaw.
Romero was carrying out a 18-year punishment for furnished theft when he figured out how to escape from a work team in Anderson County, South Carolina, on December 13, 1979.
After he is come back toward the South Carolina Department of Corrections, Romero will be required to serve the rest of his unique sentence, which is around seven years, in addition to whenever included for a departure conviction, Shain said.
His image as detainee during the 1970s and after his capture in 2020.
