He Spent 32 Years on the Run. Then Police Received a Tip

By Arden Dier

June 26, 2017

After three decades on the lam, an Arkansas man has been quickly reacquainted with life behind bars. 

Steven Dishman, 60—who was five months into a seven-year sentence for burglary and property theft when he escaped from the Cummins Unit in Lincoln County, Ark., on May 28, 1985, reports KTHV—was arrested Sunday at a home in Springdale in the northwestern part of the state, report Arkansas Online and KFSM.

Arkansas State Police and local cops raided the home after receiving a tip. A rep for the Arkansas Department of Correction tells Fox 16 that Dishman will now be required to serve the remainder of his sentence

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