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Fugitive nabbed applying to be Cop (The following article was downloaded from an online news service August 29, 1998. Thanks to Steve Tillmann for the submission.) The Associated Press WEST HAVEN, Conn. (AP) --— A Nevada fugitive wanted on fraud charges was arrested when he applied to become a town police officer. Alexander Ocasio, 30, of Las Vegas, was arrested this week in Connecticut after the standard background check for applicants to the police force turned up his fugitive warrant. Police quickly called Ocasio in to get his fingerprints, saying it was part of the job application. When he showed up, they pulled out the warrant with his name on it. ``I think it's hilarious,'' Matthew Dushoff, a Nevada deputy attorney general, said Thursday. ``It's one of the dumbest things he could have done. We never would have found him otherwise, and he walked right into it.'' Ocasio is a former state corrections officer in Nevada and a onetime security officer at a Las Vegas casino. He had passed both the written and agility tests to become a police officer before he was caught, said Lt. Colleen Smullen. The Nevada charges involve allegations of fraudulently collecting unemployment benefits.
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