Georgia fugitive taken down in Toronto

(Update)

After nearly three days of searching, police in Toronto found what they’d looking for this afternoon — an American fugitive, first spotted in Oakville — and on the run, from a Georgia prison.

Monday afternoon, Halton regional police tried to stop a car in Oakville, near Upper Middle Road and Sixth Line. A man and woman both bolted from the car — and a short time later police arrested the woman, in a nearby townhouse complex.

It was then they learned that the passenger in her car — was a wanted fugitive from Savannah, Georgia. 32-year old Anthony Joseph Maiorano, was seven years into a 20-year sentence for aggravated assault when he was granted a day pass in April from the coastal transfer centre in Savannah.

He walked out of the prison, and never came back. Although police spent much of Monday afternoon combing through the Oakville neighbourhood where Maiorano was first spotted — the elusive convict disappeared.

This afternoon however, he was once again spotted in Toronto. Officers from Toronto police and the OPP moved in on an area near The Queensway and Park Lawn Road, where they arrested Maiorano on the street, without incident.

Tonight, Maiorano is sitting in a Canadian jail cell. The convict is now scheduled to appear in a Toronto courtroom Friday on an extradition warrant.

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