The U.S. Marshals Service caught a jail escapee who had been on the run for a long time. Willie Lee Austin was captured in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, on Wednesday after he got away from the Central State Correctional Institute in Macon, Georgia, Dec. 27, 1981, U.S. Marshals Supervisory Inspector Tony Schilling said. Austin had been serving a 15-year sentence for armed robbery.
Ivestogator had learned Austin, 60, was living in South Florida utilizing a false name, Schilling said. He was captured without incident.
No hidden place for criminals.