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<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4b4343"><strong>Howard D. Farley Jr., 72, was living in Ocala, Florida at the time of his arrest on Wednesday</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4b4343"><strong>The alleged Nebraska drug kingpin has been on the run for 35 years after evading the law in 1985</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4b4343"><strong>He was found living in Florida after applying for a passport under a dead baby&#8217;s identity </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4b4343"><strong>Fingerprints were used to link him to his true identity and his criminal past</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4b4343"><strong>The only member of the 74-man Nebraska &#8216;Southern Line&#8217; drug ring to avoid arrest, Farley assumed the identity of a deceased infant to remain on the run</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4b4343"><strong>He also used the identity to secure a pilot&#8217;s license</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4b4343"><strong>He was arrested as he tried to board a private plane at his Florida home</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#4b4343"><strong>Farley who was also convicted of burglary back in 1970 now faces up to 10 years in jail on charges of passport fraud</strong></h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Howard-Farley-Jr.-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-362513"/><figcaption><strong>Long-term fugitive</strong> <strong>Howard Farley Jr., 72, seen when he was arrested in Florida on Wednesday. The alleged drug king-pin evaded arrest in Nebraska in 1985 and has been on the run for 35 years</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>A drug kingpin from Nebraska who has been on the run for more than 35 years has finally been arrested after being found living under the identity of a dead baby in Ocala, Florida.<br>Howard D. Farley Jr., 72, was arrested at his home on Wednesday, ten months after an investigation was sparked when he applied for a passport under the false information.<br>Farley used the name, date of birth, and social security number of an individual who died as an infant way back in 1954. <br>Farley appeared to be trying to make a dramatic escape on Wednesday when he was arrested. He reportedly, was trying to board a private plane in a hanger of his house when authorities caught up to him. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Howard-D.-Farley-Jr.-3.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-362526"/><figcaption><strong>Gallery of Howard D. Farley Jr. images &#8211; from 1998 to 2008 and 2020</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>The fugitive had a fraudulent pilot&#8217;s license that was also issued to him under the false identity he used to evade authorities for 35 years.<br>In a release from the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/alleged-drug-kingpin-nebraska-arrested-after-having-assumed-another-s-identity-more-35">Department of Justice</a>, Farley is singled out as the &#8216;kingpin&#8217; of the Southern Line in Nebraska back in the 1980s, which was a railroad line used to distribute narcotics.<br>He was indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Nebraska and charged with a narcotics conspiracy in 1985, and was the only one of 74 people indicted that was not apprehended by the authorities.<br>As law enforcement Farley is believed to have assumed the false identity and disappeared. He has been a fugitive ever since. <br>If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison for charges related to the passport fraud. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Howard-D.-Farley-Jr.-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-362514"/><figcaption><strong>Farley Jr., seen <strong>in his passport picture from 1998</strong> was considered the &#8216;kingpin&#8217; of a drug trade in Nebraska along the railroad that resulted in 74 indictments. Farley reportedly was the only one of the 74 suspects who avoided arrest</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Farley was considered the &#8216;kingpin&#8217; of a drug trade in Nebraska along the railroad that resulted in 74 indictments; only Farley avoided arrest.<br>According to a criminal complaint, Farley assumed the identity of a child referred to only as &#8216;T.B.&#8217; who was born in Lake Worth, Florida, in 1954 and died three months later.<br>He had used T.B.’s identity to obtain a passport in March 1987, October 1998 and October 2008, and had also got a Florida driver’s license and a pilot’s license, officials say.<br>He had even used his fraudulent passport to travel to Vietnam in 2018, the complaint reveals.<br>The decades long subterfuge came to light in February when Farley tried to renew the passport once again, and officials realized that the individual was supposed to be dead.<br>They found T.B.&#8217;s death record, and also that Social Security information for the identity was not registered until 1987, despite the date of birth being in 1954. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Howard-Farley-Jr.-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-362512"/><figcaption><strong> Farley seen in his passport picture from 2008, was rumbled using the identity of a deceased baby to apply for a passport and he was arrested on charges of passport fraud.</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>A firearm was recovered from Farley&#8217;s home Wednesday when a search warrant of the property was executed.<br>After his arrest, fingerprints were used to link him to his true identity and his criminal past. <br>According to the Department of Justice, Farley was also arrested and convicted of burglary back in 1970.<br>The latest case is being investigated by a number of government agencies, including the Department of Transportation and U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service. <br></p>

Nebraska drug kingpin, Howard Farley Jr, on the run for 35 years, found living in Florida after applying for a passport under a dead baby’s identity
