SAN DIEGO (CNS) – A 72-year-old man who lived for decades under a false name in Mexico to avoid arrest, then fraudulently collected more than $130,000 in Social Security payments, was sentenced in San Diego federal court Friday to credit for time served for just over four months he has spent in jail since his arrest.
Leslie Kay Peterson, who was living in La Paz, Mexico under the name Ronald Allen Steele, fled to Mexico after receiving a first-degree robbery conviction in Washington state, prosecutors said.
Peterson was sentenced to 10 years of probation in 1977, but fled the country after he allegedly violated his probation terms the following year for failing to pay a motel bill, a criminal complaint filed in federal court states…