LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) – After months on the run, a mail fraud suspect who lived up to his legal name – Speedy Gonzalez – has been arrested in Georgia.
The 35-year-old Buford man – who shares a name with the fast-running cartoon mouse – was taken into custody Saturday during a traffic stop in Gwinnett County, authorities said.
Authorities began looking for Gonzalez after a victim reported in January that multiple checks were stolen from his mailbox in Suwanee, Gwinnett County police said in a statement.
Police determined Gonzalez was the one who swiped the checks, then visited a Home Depot to buy more than $3,000 worth of merchandise with the funds before returning the items for cash, officials said.
Police identified Gonzalez as a suspect in March, but he managed to elude authorities for another month, with investigators saying he even appeared in Tennessee before he was caught over the weekend.