San Diego
A man once on the FBI’s 10-most-wanted list pleaded guilty Wednesday to kidnaping a Ramona liquor store clerk and shooting him five times. Vincent James Russo, 30, returns before San Diego Superior Court Judge Daniel Kremer on May 1 for sentencing. Russo was charged with shooting and robbing Dale Eaton, then 20, on Dec. 2, 1978, after abducting him from Stage Stop Liquors. Russo, a former police officer and Marine, was arrested in January by the FBI in Beaver Falls, Pa. Eaton testified Feb. 4 at Russo’s preliminary hearing that Russo kidnaped him and forced him to lie on the ground near a highway close to Valley Center. Eaton said Russo then shot him.
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