A 53-year-old woman who escaped from a Michigan prison in 1976 is facing extradition after being arrested at her upscale home in San Diego, officials said today.
Susan Lefevre, sentenced in 1975 to 10 to 20 years in prison on drug charges, was living as Marie Walsh with her husband in the Carmel Valley neighborhood here, the U.S. marshal's office said.
A tipster had alerted Michigan officials to Lefevre's whereabouts. Her identity was confirmed through the thumbprint on her driver's license.
Lefevre was in "disbelief" when she was arrested last week, said Deputy U.S. Marshal Steve Jurman. At first she denied being the fugitive but then relented, he added.
"She kept saying, 'Are you sure? Are you sure you have to take me?' " Jurman said. "She told me, 'It was the 1970s. Everybody was doing heroin. It's not like it is today.' " . . . .
She will probably have to serve between five and nine years in prison before being eligible for parole, Marlan said. Meanwhile, Michigan officials will investigate to see if she has broken any other laws in her three decades as a fugitive, he said. A fugitive warrant lists several aliases she allegedly used.
I know people have to pay their debt, but, don't you kinda feel bad for her? A Michigan prison spokesman asked what sort of message it would send to other prisoners if you could escape, live clean, and have your sentence dropped if you were caught?
Well, that's kind of a scared-straight message, isn't it? IF you can live clean . . . isn't it a rehabilitation-based system for which we strive here?
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