HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

Fugitive Found After 3 Decades Just 150 Miles From Prison

The now 79-year-old fled prison while serving time for operating a sprawling marijuana grow operation.

After 30 years on the run, a Northern California fugitive has been taken in by police. He was found to be living “a quiet, normal life” some 150 miles from the federal prison he escaped in 1994, SFGATE reported. Ronald Keith Harvey, 79, fled FCI Dublin while serving time for operating a sprawling marijuana grow operation with more than 600 plants and firearms, officials said. Deputy U.S. Marshal Cruz Moya, who took over the case last year, told SFGATE that his team located Harvey in Nevada City after a fresh data sweep linked him to a new address. Harvey was booked on June 12, according to the county’s inmate database. FCI Dublin, the now-shuttered Bay Area facility Harvey escaped, made headlines in 2022 due to reports of widespread sexual abuse at the prison. “These guys are always looking over their shoulder,” Moya said. “And we’re not going to stop until we get you.”