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<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#1c1617;font-size:14px"><strong><strong>New Orleanian</strong></strong> <strong>Greg Lawson, who vanished from his own trial in Louisiana following a 1991 attempted murder, was finally arrested across the border this week <strong><strong> </strong></strong></strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#1c1617;font-size:14px"><strong><strong><strong><strong>Lawson now 63,</strong> was found and arrested Tuesday in Huatulco, Mexico, after the FBI received a tip earlier this month and worked with Mexican immigration authorities</strong></strong> </strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#1c1617;font-size:14px"><strong>Lawson fled the Claiborne Parish Courthouse</strong> <strong>32 years ago, just before a jury found him guilty of attempted second-degree murder in the shooting of Seth Garlington </strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#1c1617;font-size:14px"><strong><strong><strong><strong>Long on the FBI&#8217;s most wan</strong></strong></strong>ted list, Lawson shot Seth Garlington, who later survived, after a fist fight in the parking lot at a gas station three decades ago </strong></h2>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong><strong>Long on the FBI&#8217;s most wanted list <strong>Greg Lawson </strong> was found and arrested Tuesday in Huatulco, Mexico, after the FBI received a tip earlier this month and worked with Mexican immigration authorities. He is seen [center], after being returned from Mexico to the US</strong>, now 63, </strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A Louisiana fugitive who fled during a 1991 trial over a shooting was finally arrested more than three decades later after authorities found him hiding in Mexico. <br>Greg Lawson, 63, fled the country before he was convicted of attempted second-degree murder in 1991. Throughout the years, he was one of the most wanted criminals by the FBI agents. <br>A tip sent to the FBI earlier this month led to the arrest, according to a<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/neworleans/news/tip-to-fbi-ends-32-year-long-manhunt" target="_blank"> press release</a> from the FBI of New Orleans. <br>Lawson took off 32 years ago, just before a jury found him guilty of attempted second-degree murder in the shooting of Seth Garlington. </p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><br>His truck was parked a block away from the Claiborne Parish Courthouse where the case was tried, but he was nowhere to be found &#8211; until now.<br>Lawson was deported for immigration violations after agents in Shreveport, Louisiana, and Mexican immigration authorities worked together to find him. </p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Lawson, seen [in a mugshot, circa 191], was arrested 32 years ago after he shot Seth Garlington but fled before he was found guilty of attempted second-degree murder. </strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Lawson is seen after being returned from Mexico to the US after 31 years on the run from murder charges in New Orleans, LA,<strong> after the FBI received a tip earlier this month</strong></strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&#8216;There is no doubt that Mr. Lawson might still be in the wind if our partners in Mexico had not been willing to deal with this so swiftly,&#8217; said Douglas A. Williams Jr., special agent in charge of FBI New Orleans. <br>In 1991, Lawson forced Garlington&#8217;s vehicle off the highway and started a fistfight in the parking lot at a gas station. The two had been childhood friends.<br>&#8216;They couldn&#8217;t settle things with their hands, so they brought out the guns&#8217; said Ryanie Evans, a former friend of Lawson said in an interview with <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.ksla.com/story/6077964/ringgold-shootout/" target="_blank">KSLA NEWS</a> in 2007. <br>Garlington was shot but survived. Lawson was arrested but fled before the verdict was read out loud in court. </p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Some of the evidence police used against Lawson during his trial for the attempted murder of <strong>Seth Garlington &#8211; during a fist fight in 1991.</strong> </strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>He arrived at the Houston airport and met Bienville Parish sheriff&#8217;s deputies for his ride to jail</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The FBI offered a $10,000 reward for his capture in 2007 with the hope to bring new light to the cold case. <br>For decades, the FBI had suspected the fugitive was somewhere in Mexico. Sightings of Lawson in foreign counties had been reported to agents. <br>Evans also said in 2007 that he caught a glimpse of Lawson: &#8216;And he pulled up in a truck, (a) Chevy with Texas tags, and rolled the window down and went.&#8217; <br>Lawson was said to have gotten away with other crimes during his life for his family influence around the area, &#8216;Money was never a concern for Lawson,&#8217; Evans said. <br>Lawson was known for his temper, Evans added. &#8216;He reveled in having some sort of controversy going all the time, he thrived on that.&#8217;</p>

Greg Lawson, 63, who was wanted after fleeing a Louisiana courthouse just before being found guilty of attempted murder in 1991, is finally arrested in Mexico after 32 years on the run
