SAN DIEGO (CNS) – A 72-year-old man who lived for decades under a false name in Mexico to avoid arrest pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court Thursday to passport and Social Security fraud.
Leslie Kay Peterson, who was living in La Paz, Mexico under the name Ronald Allen Steele, was arrested last November after trying to enter the United States from Mexico.
A criminal complaint filed in federal court states Peterson was convicted of first-degree robbery in Washington state and sentenced to 10 years of probation in 1977. After he allegedly violated his probation terms the following year for failing to pay a motel bill, he fled to Mexico, the complaint states…