Forensic Fingerprints Analysis help nab US fugitive of 20 years.

Forensic Fingerprints Analysis help nab US fugitive of 20 years.


Through forensic fingerprint analysis techniques a Texas fugitive whom was known under a series of false names, insisted to Volusia County Sheriff's deputies that they had the wrong guy when they knocked on his door in Deltona USA last week.

But police said fingerprints lifted nearly 20 years ago, matched with modern technology, forced the truth out of 76-year-old Robert Dawson. He was arrested and booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach on charges of being a fugitive from justice and resisting an officer without violence.
Mr Dawson's two decades of freedom came to a sudden end when he applied for a Florida security guard license recently. Fingerprints are part of the application process, and those unique personal identifiers were submitted to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigations for criminal history checks.
A couple of days later, the FBI's results indicated that Dawson, who was going by the assumed name Robert Evans, was wanted for absconding from parole supervision in Texas in 1990. His original charge back then was burglary.
The Bureau of License Issuance in Tallahassee contacted the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The Florida agency shared a current photo of Dawson with the Texas agency, but the elapsed time made comparing his old photo with his new one difficult.

The Texas agency then asked Volusia deputies to check on Dawson at 1354 Lydia Drive. Despite his denial that he was a wanted man, deputies took him to the Sheriff's Office Operations Center to use the Automated Fingerprint Identification System.

A short time later, the final identity confirmation came back from the FBI. Faced with the evidence, Dawson finally admitted his real name.
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