New York Fugitive Busted After Vacationing Fed Spots Him at Walt Disney World
Source: Daily Beast
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New York Fugitive Busted After Vacationing Fed Spots Him at Walt Disney World
Quashon Burton had been on the lam for almost a year before an incredible chance encounter with the officer who signed the complaint against him.
Dan Ladden-Hall
News Correspondent
Updated Nov. 04, 2022 9:52AM ET / Published Nov. 04, 2022 6:46AM ET
Walt Disney World calls itself the “most magical place on Earth,” but one visiting fugitive must’ve felt cursed when his trip to the resort ended in a stroke of mind-blowing bad luck last month.
Quashon Burton, 31, from New York had been on the run from the law since November 2021. United States Postal Inspection Service officers tried to arrest him over an alleged identity theft scheme used to steal around $150,000 of federal COVID loans, but he wasn’t at his Brooklyn home. Burton’s mother informed the officers that her son “would not be self-surrendering,” federal court documents say.
Federal postal inspector Jeff Andre, who signed the complaint against Burton, wrote that Burton had built a “complex web of identities that made his crimes difficult to investigate.” “He has clearly demonstrated an ability to mask his true identity to evade law enforcement. So too has he demonstrated a willingness to lie about this identity to avoid arrest.”
Fast-forward to Oct. 20 and Andre is on vacation at Disney World in Florida. At around 3:05 p.m. in the resort’s Animal Kingdom, Andre spotted Burton, recognizing the fugitive by a distinctive “H” tattoo on his neck.
Andre then alerted the Orange County Sheriff’s Office that a fugitive was in the park. ...
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