Inmate Who Escaped Is Back In Custody Four Decades Later

(Columbia, SC) -- An inmate who escaped from custody in South Carolina in 1979 has been captured. 

Jose Chico Romero presented a fake ID card to Dover Police on December 28th. He was arrested as Arnaldo Figueroa but his fingerprints later came back as Romero. 

He was serving an 18-year sentence when he escaped from an Anderson County work crew four decades ago.


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