LIMA, Peru — A man who escaped from a jail in Florida 36 years ago has been re-arrested in Peru, after spending more than half his life on the lam, authorities said Wednesday. Police finally caught up with convicted drug trafficker Ricardo Garcia-Godos McBride, a 62-year-old Peruvian national, as he was walking down the street in Peru’s capital Lima, in an upscale neighborhood called San Isidro. Garcia-Godos was convicted on drug charges in the United States in 1979 and sentenced to 12 years in prison. ADVERTISEMENTBut he escaped the following year and went on to evade the authorities for more than three and a half decades. Peru has for decades been one of the world’s top producers of coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 26, 2016 23:48 UTC