Local News in Brief : Fugitive Captured During Routine Stop
One of the U.S. Marshals Service’s 15 most wanted fugitives, a man convicted of participating in a 1985 murder-for-hire plot in San Diego that injured an Oklahoma lawyer, was captured Thursday during a routine traffic stop in Culver City.
Patrick Thomas Innie, 38, of Bedford, N.H., was arrested about 10 a.m. as he was trying to start his car outside a motel, officials said. A police officer who stopped to help became suspicious and discovered through a computer check that Innie was wanted by the marshals.
A warrant for Innie’s arrest was issued in San Diego on March 7, 1988, when he failed to appear in federal court for sentencing in the murder-for-hire case.
Innie appeared briefly Thursday in Los Angeles federal court and agreed to allow the marshals to return him immediately to San Diego.
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