Steven Johnson, who escaped from prison in 1994 while on a work detail, was arrested in Macon, Ga., on Tuesday. He had been living there since 2011 and had assumed the identity of a dead child.
Steven Johnson escaped from Mill Creek Correctional Facility in Salem, Ore., during a prison work detail in 1994. He was arrested on Tuesday in Macon, Ga., where had had assumed the identity of a dead child.
Ore., in 1994. He was serving a state prison sentence for three counts of sex abuse and one count of attempted sodomy.U.S. Marshals Service , Johnson stole the identity of a child who died in Texas in 1962 after obtaining the child's birth certificate and Social Security number in 1995. Johnson secured a Georgia driver's license in 1998, and had been living in Macon since 2011. The Oregon Corrections Department requested the U.S. Marshals to take on the search for Johnson in 2015. After pursuing multiple leads, new technology used by the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service helped uncover new leads this year.
The facility Johnson escaped from was a minimum-security prison with no fence around it. Mill Creek prison closed in June 2021 under an order from former Gov. Kate Brown.
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