Leslie Isben Rogge
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Leslie Isben Rogge (b. March 8, 1940 in Seattle, Washington [1]) is a notorious bank robber who bribed a jail guard and escaped from prison in Moscow, Idaho in September 1985. [2] He had been convicted and sentenced to 25 years for a 1984 bank robbery in Key Largo, Florida. [3] He was previously imprisoned in the 1970s, for car theft and grand larceny, at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. [3]
Following his escape, he went on to commit additional bank robberies, including at an Exchange Bank branch in El Dorado, Arkansas and at a bank in High Point, North Carolina in 1986. [4] On January 24, 1990, Rogge became the 430th Fugitive to be added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, where he remained for the next six years. [5] He was featured on the television program, Unsolved Mysteries and on America's Most Wanted five times. [3] In 1991, he also robbed a bank in Webb City, Missouri. [4]
On May 19, 1996, Rogge surrendered at the United States Embassy in Guatemala, after Guatemalan authorities had launched a manhunt upon being tipped off by someone who saw Rogge's photo on the FBI website. [6] While on the run, he also spent time in Antigua where he went by the name, Bill Young. [3]
[edit] References
- ^ The FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. FBI. Retrieved on 1996-10-22.
- ^ Price, Joyce. "FBI's most wanted meet set criteria", The Washington Times, 1991, February 22.
- ^ a b c d Moore, Molly. "You Can Run, But Not Hide, From the Net; FBI Home Page Nabs Fugitive in Guatemala", The Washington Post, 1996, June 6.
- ^ a b Brooks, Jim. "Robber on List Snared El Dorado Bank was Target in '86", Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 1996, May 19.
- ^ FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives wanted poster of Rogge, as archived at Wayback Machine, October 22, 1996
- ^ "U.S. Fugitive Surrenders In Guatemala After Photo Is Seen On Internet", Associated Press, 1996, May 19.
