Porn Kingpin Who Escaped Prison Arrested : Fugitive: 68-year-old captured in Anaheim was serving time for federal racketeering, obscenity, income tax violations.

A prison escapee described by authorities as “a major figure in the pornography industry” was arrested Tuesday morning inside an apartment he had been renting since January.

Ruben Sturman, 68, was surprised by federal marshals at 7:10 a.m. at the apartment in the 2500 block of West Ball Road.

He was arrested without incident, but officers found a loaded .45-caliber pistol in an open briefcase next to his bed, said Jan Axthelm , supervisory deputy U.S. marshal.

“Through a lot of good investigative work they were able to find him,” Axthelm said. “We had numerous sources giving us information and were able to determine that he was living in Anaheim.”

Sturman had pleaded guilty last May in Las Vegas to federal racketeering and obscenity charges. He was serving a four-year sentence.

He also recently had been convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison in Cleveland for income tax violations and non-disclosure of foreign bank accounts.

On Dec. 7, Sturman escaped from the minimum-security federal prison camp in Boron, Axthelm said.

A task force was formed to assist in Sturman’s capture. It was made up of representatives from the U.S. Marshal’s Service, the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Customs Service, the Postal Service and the U.S. attorney’s offices from the Central District of California and the Northern District of Ohio.

Sturman is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles.