Fugitive British man wanted in 1993 car heist nabbed in US
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February 11, 2012, Saturday
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AFTER nearly two decades as a fugitive, a British man suspected of driving off with an armored car loaded with cash worth about US$1.5 million has been captured in southwest Missouri, United States, where he appeared in federal court and asked for a court-appointed defense attorney because he didn't have enough money to hire one.
Edward John Maher, once dubbed "Fast Eddie" in news reports after the 1993 heist, is accused of stealing the armored car while a fellow security guard was making a delivery to a bank in Suffolk, eastern England. The van was later abandoned. Fifty bags containing coins and notes worth 1 million pounds, or US$1.5 million, were missing. And so was Maher.
According to US property records, Maher, 56, appears to have been in the US for years, moving around New England, the South and the Midwest.
Maher was arrested on Wednesday in an apartment in the town of Ozark, 260 kilometers southeast of Kansas City, where authorities said he was living under a brother's name, Michael Maher, and working as a cable installer.
His guise began unraveling on Monday when Ozark police received a tip that a man going by that name was a fugitive from Britain. An officer compared Maher's driver's license photo with a picture from 1993 and contacted the FBI, which also compared the photos and deemed they were likely the same man.
Edward John Maher, once dubbed "Fast Eddie" in news reports after the 1993 heist, is accused of stealing the armored car while a fellow security guard was making a delivery to a bank in Suffolk, eastern England. The van was later abandoned. Fifty bags containing coins and notes worth 1 million pounds, or US$1.5 million, were missing. And so was Maher.
According to US property records, Maher, 56, appears to have been in the US for years, moving around New England, the South and the Midwest.
Maher was arrested on Wednesday in an apartment in the town of Ozark, 260 kilometers southeast of Kansas City, where authorities said he was living under a brother's name, Michael Maher, and working as a cable installer.
His guise began unraveling on Monday when Ozark police received a tip that a man going by that name was a fugitive from Britain. An officer compared Maher's driver's license photo with a picture from 1993 and contacted the FBI, which also compared the photos and deemed they were likely the same man.
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