Oregon Fugitive Arrested in Georgia After 30 Years

Steven Craig Johnson, a 70-year-old Oregon fugitive who escaped from prison 30 years ago, was apprehended in Macon, Georgia, where he had been living under the false identity of a deceased child. Johnson, a convicted sex offender, had fled from a work crew in 1994 while serving time for sex abuse and attempted sodomy. He was captured by the U.S. Marshals Service, who had been pursuing him since 2015 with new investigative technology, and is now awaiting extradition to Oregon. Johnson had obtained the child's birth certificate and Social Security number to create a new identity in Georgia, where he had been residing since 2011. The minimum-security prison he escaped from, Mill Creek Correctional Facility, closed in 2021, and Johnson's capture sheds light on the ongoing efforts to bring escaped inmates to justice.