Thaindian News

June 2 (THAINDIAN NEWS) One of the fugitives from the television show America’s Most Wanted has been found in Merced on Tuesday. Paul Clouston, 74 was one of the US Marshal’s Office’s 15 most wanted fugitives, and was arrested after federal agents received a tip that he was living in a home which is located in the 500 block of Henry Street.

Reports from the Merced County Sheriff’s Department stated that agents from the US Marshal’s Office’s Fresno Division received the tip from a person who recognized Clouston’s picture from the America’s Most Wanted website. Clouston had been listed as one of the country’s most wanted fugitives on television three years prior. He was on parole for killing a police officer in the murder of a police detective in Buena Park,which occurred in 1972, and was indicted on 17 counts of abusing children in the Williamsburg Virginia area in 1991. Clouston pled guilty to seven of the charges, and went back to prison. Although he was released on parole in 2005, he never registered as a sex offender.

Clouston had been working as a maintenance worker in a Merced group home for the last four years. After agents contacted the Merced County Sheriff, a team known as STAR, made up of US Deputy Marshals, and part of the US Marshall Fugitive Apprehension Team found him and he was arrested and booked in the Merced County Jail, with no bail. He will soon be extradited back to Virginia, where the charges were made. When arrested, Clouston gave a false name three different times before finally stating, “I’m Paul Clouston and I’m tired of running.”