New York Adult Entertainment: Man On The Lam Since 1980 Caught Applying For City Job
David Price is going to serve at least 6 years in prison—30 years after his conviction on rape charges. Price, 54, went on the run in 1980 while he and another man were facing trial for putting a gun to a prostitute’s head and raping her. But after three decades on the lam, authorities arrested the Price when he walked into a Manhattan courthouse to see if his criminal record was still on file, according to the Daily News.
Price—who worked as a bike messenger and a short-order cook at Hooters when he was on the run—went to the courthouse because he wanted make sure the case was closed before applying for a job with the city. That’s when officials discovered a 1980 bench warrant and arrested him on the spot. Price says his detention came as a surprise because he had been arrested twice since he fled his trial, once in 1996 for drugs and once in 2005 for hitting his girlfriend. “They could have [put me away] two other times,” he said. “Now I’m old and they want to mess with me?”
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