As the owner of a Pompano Beach office furniture business, with a silver 2008 Corvette in his garage and a reputation for generosity and kindness, Larry Jackson seemed the epitome of a solid citizen.
But what he could not do was outrun his past.
After nearly 34 years as a fugitive, the 60-year-old businessman was arrested under his real name of Willie Lee Austin, a convicted armed robber who walked out of a Georgia prison on a three-day Christmas furlough and never returned.
Austin acknowledges his identity, and admits he is guilty of fleeing prison after serving four and a half years of a 15-year sentence.