Sex offender caught after 33 years on the lam

V. Ferguson Jr., 71, was convicted of incest in March 1977 but failed to turn up to the court in northwest Missouri for sentencing. He was arrested earlier this week in Barnsdall, Okla., the Kansas City Star reported.Clay County Prosecutor Daniel White told the newspaper that Ferguson changed his name and lived “under the grid,” sometimes in homeless shelters.

Star said the original criminal trial had lasted less than two days with jurors recommending that Ferguson serve two years in prison.

“I guess he felt two years in prison was too much for him and he ran,” White told the paper