A fugitive wanted in North Carolina was arrested in Tucson Thursday morning.
Just after 8 a.m. a representative from the Concord Police Department in North Carolina called the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, asking for assistance in locating 21-year-old Lindon Claridge, who was now living in the Tucson area, Deputy Tracy Suitt, a spokesman for the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, said in a news release.
Less than three hours later deputies had Claride in custody after tracking him down at a home in the 1900 block of West Gardner Lane near north Romero Road.
Claridge is wanted in North Carolina on charges of kidnapping and indecent liberties with a child.
Under North Carolina statues, a person commits indecent liberties with a child if he is at least 16 years old and five or more years older than the child.
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Claridge was booked into the Pima County jail on a fugitive warrant, and is expected to be extradited to North Carolina.
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