A woman convicted in New Orleans federal court over a yearslong scheme to steal money from elderly widows is on the run after failing to report to federal prison, officials say.
Emuobosan Emmanuella Hall was sentenced in January to eight years in federal custody for her role in the “romance scam” and was ordered to report March 25 to a U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility in Minnesota. But an ankle monitor Hall wore showed her last location on March 24 as Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and she never arrived in Minnesota, U.S. Attorney David Courcelle of the Eastern District of Louisiana said in a news release Wednesday.
In court filings Tuesday, an FBI agent wrote that phone records suggest Hall traveled to Washington, D.C., on March 24 rather than Minnesota. Federal border agents found no record of her crossing the U.S. border, so authorities believe Hall either remains in the U.S. or fled the country with fake documents, the agent wrote…