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Escaped Con Man Back in Jail

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

by Rod Hughes
Convicted confidence man Arnoldo Rodríguez enjoyed his freedom as a fugitive for 25 years after a conviction in Boron, California, for defrauding a Salt Lake City, Utah, jeweler of $120,000. But Monday a Costa Rican judge ordered a year preventive detention on four local counts of–what else?–fraud.
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