A fugitive with a long criminal history in the Washington area surrendered to U.S. marshals reading about his flight from justice in The Washington Examiner.

Forty-four-year-old Illya Truesdale turned himself in last week after a family member saw Truesdale’s story and photo in the newspaper and told him, according to the U.S. Marshals Office.

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