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Police in Nicaragua have detained one of the FBI's ten most-wanted fugitives, child-porn suspect Eric Justin Toth. The head of detectives for Nicaragua's National Police force says Toth was detained near the Honduran border. Glenda Zavala said Monday that Toth had been detained Saturday, based on an international detention request. The former Washington D.C. elementary school teacher faces accusations he possessed and produced child pornography. He lost his teaching job in 2008 after another teacher found images of child pornography on a school camera in Toth's possession.

Despite the fact that the man suspected of killing an expectant Brooklyn couple and their baby in a hit-and-run accident promised yesterday to turn himself in, police are still searching for Julio Acevedo.

Fugitive accused of taking Highland Park woman’s $90,000 wedding ring arrested in East Texas... He was first arrested shortly after the January 2010 mugging, in which a woman in her 50s had her $90,000 wedding ring stolen outside the Whole Foods on Preston Road. Authorities say Fuller’s bail was supposed to be set at $500,000, but after a court mix-up he was released on $50,000 bail. He’s been on the lam for two years. Two weeks ago, however, Fuller was featured on America’s Most Wanted, and tips about his whereabouts poured in to the North Texas Fugitive Task Force.

A standoff between police and a reported fugitive who climbed a construction crane in Dallas, Texas, ended early Tuesday after the man fell to the ground.

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The Seattle School District is investigating how a fugitive from the law ended up on a school field trip Wednesday afternoon. A fellow parent recognized the man, Donald Vasser, from the TV show "Washington's Most Wanted," and police were called in.

A fugitive's 41-year run from the law, which started with the murder of a World War II veteran from New Jersey, has come to an end. The FBI, United States Marshals Service and New Jersey Department of Corrections jointly announced the arrest of George Wright, 68, in Portugal today. Wright had escaped a state prison in 1970, seven years after he was convicted for the murder of Walter Patterson, a service station worker in Wall.

The Serbian president has confirmed war crimes fugitive, wanted since 1995, Ratko Mladic has been arrested.

A man who fled his trial on drug and racketeering charges in 1979 and eluded police in several different countries while on the run was arrested Thursday at a Florida senior living community, U.S. Marshals said.

Arizona fugitive John McCluskey and his alleged accomplice, Casslyn Mae Welch, are in custody, officials said Thursday. Both have been on the run since July.

A teenage fugitive known as the "barefoot bandit" was arrested today in the Bahamas, police say.