Just a little something to reinforce that our system can and is working..

FINGERPRINTS LEAD TO ARREST ON 20-YEAR-OLD TEXAS WARRANT

 
A Texas fugitive insisted over and over again to Volusia County Sheriff’s 
deputies that they had the wrong guy when they knocked on his door in Deltona 
Monday night. He gave them a false name and claimed he had never been in Texas. 
But fingerprints from nearly 20 years ago matched with modern technology forced 
the truth out of 76-year-old Robert Dawson. He was arrested and booked into the 
Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach on charges of being a fugitive from 
justice and resisting an officer without violence. 
 
Dawson’s two decades of freedom came to a sudden end when he applied for a 
Florida security guard license recently. Fingerprints are part of the 
application process, and those unique personal identifiers were submitted to the 
Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the FBI for criminal history checks. A 
couple of days later, the FBI’s results indicated that Dawson, who was going by 
the assumed name Robert Evans, was wanted for absconding from parole supervision 
in Texas in 1990. His original charge back then was burglary. 
 
The Bureau of License Issuance in Tallahassee contacted the Texas Department of 
Criminal Justice. The Florida agency shared a current photo of Dawson with the 
Texas agency, but the elapsed time made comparing his old photo with his new one 
difficult. The Texas agency then asked Volusia deputies to check on Dawson at 
1354 Lydia Drive. Despite his denial that he was a wanted man, deputies took him 
to the Sheriff’s Office Operations Center to use the Automated Fingerprint 
Identification System. A short time later the final identity confirmation came 
back from the FBI. Faced with the evidence, Dawson finally admitted his real 
name. Dawson was taken to jail and held without bail as he waits for Texas 
authorities to extradite him.