Fugitive, 78, Collared by Bat-Wielding Woman
After a lifetime of small-town holdups, chain gangs and jail escapes, a 78-year-old fugitive was collared by a bat-wielding woman just five years his junior.
Nick George Montos, the first person to make the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list twice, walked into an antique shop Tuesday with a gun and threatened to kill owner Sonia Paine, 73, if she didn’t cooperate.
He tied her hands to a door, but she wiggled free, tripped a silent alarm and hit him over the head with her aluminum bat. She was hurt in the scuffle, but it was Montos who looked the worse for wear in court Wednesday, his head and wrist bandaged.
Montos was arraigned on a variety of charges, including assault with intent to kill.
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