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By Wayne Drash
CNN
ATLANTA, Ga. — The trail for the convicted child molester seemed to grow cold as the police combed his empty apartment.
James Maurice Robinson, 25, a confessed sex offender, had been on the run for more than two years, and it looked as if he would elude capture yet again.
The authorities huddled in a nearby parking lot to discuss Plan B, an air of disgust hanging over them. James Ergas, the U.S. Marshal helping to lead this operation, acts on a tip. He pulls out his cell phone and calls a hardware store where the suspect may be working.
Using a ruse, he begins speaking to the manager and, at one point, Robinson himself gets on the phone and unknowingly talks to the very man trying to catch him.
Gotcha! Authorities now know exactly where their man is. He’s seven miles away, on the other side of town. It’s 11:02 a.m.
Ergas guns his unmarked sport utility vehicle at 95 miles per hour through downtown Atlanta, zipping in and out of the city’s notorious traffic congestion.
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