{"id":109164,"date":"2025-03-08T18:04:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T18:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/after-40-years-on-the-run-escaped-prisoner-from-puerto-rico-caught-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T18:04:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T18:04:33","slug":"after-40-years-on-the-run-escaped-prisoner-from-puerto-rico-caught-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/after-40-years-on-the-run-escaped-prisoner-from-puerto-rico-caught-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"After 40 years on the run, escaped prisoner from Puerto Rico caught in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-03-08\/LeeCountySheriff_030825_Jorge%20Milla-Valdes.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(FORT MYERS, Fla.) &#8212; A man who escaped a Puerto Rican prison nearly 40 years ago was taken into custody in Florida, according to the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Milla-Valdes escaped from a Puerto Rican prison in 1987. The Puerto Rico Department of Justice believed he was living under the name Luis Aguirre.<\/p>\n<p>His criminal history included robbery and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in Florida&#8217;s Monroe County, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The LCSO Fugitive Warrants Unit searched for Milla-Valdes and obtained the original 1986 fingerprints from Puerto Rico, and a set from his criminal history in Monroe County.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Latent Fingerprints Supervisor Tina Carver expedited the fingerprint comparison. 15-minutes later -and using finger prints that were taken over 40 years ago- Supervisor Carver was able to match the prints, and confirm that Aguirre and Milla-Valdes was the same individual who had escaped,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>The fugitives unit was informed of the match and Milla-Valdes was taken into custody two hours later in Ft. Myers Shores, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They don&#8217;t want me. They told me about two times,&#8221; Milla-Valdes told officers as he was taken into custody, police bodycam footage shows.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now they do. They changed their mind,&#8221; an arresting officer responded.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff applauded his unit&#8217;s fast response.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My team\u2019s skill is unmatched at every level; even if your crimes don\u2019t start here in Lee County, I promise, they WILL end here,&#8221; Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (FORT MYERS, Fla.) &#8212; A man who escaped a Puerto Rican prison nearly 40 years ago was taken into custody in Florida, according to the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office. Jorge Milla-Valdes escaped from a Puerto Rican prison in 1987. The Puerto Rico Department of Justice believed<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/after-40-years-on-the-run-escaped-prisoner-from-puerto-rico-caught-in-florida\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}