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Fugitive rapist on the run for 30 years finally arrested after he’s stopped for minor bike infraction: video
By Patrick Reilly,
7 days ago
A fugitive rapist who was on the run for 30 years was finally busted in Iowa after police stopped him for riding a bicycle without a rear reflector, bodycam footage of the arrest shows.
George Hartleroad, 71, was stopped by police in West Des Moines on June 26 and provided them with a fake name and social security number, WCCI reported .
Video shows the bearded Hartleroad give his name as “Gregory Stallins,” and tell the officer that he is homeless and has been living in Iowa since 1991. He had no driver’s license on his person.
The officer originally cuts him loose but begins questioning him again for several minutes, suspicious of his evasive answers, the cop’s body camera footage shows.
“Alright brother, time to be honest with me, OK? So the info you give me comes back to a dead guy. Gregory Stallins is dead,” an officer is heard questioning Hartleroad in the video.
Hartleroad doubles down, the clip shows.
“You’re Gregory, you’re just not dead?” the baffled officer asks.
At one point, police asked him to remove his hat so they could snap a photo to run through a facial recognition program.
Hartleroad eventually confessed his true identity.
The officer then learned the real man he stopped has been wanted by authorities in Wisconsin since 1994 when he escaped from a halfway house, according to the station.
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