{"id":83297,"date":"2026-06-02T15:38:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/fugitive-who-stole-identity-of-college-grad-who-died-in-1975-pleads-guilty-to-fraud\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:38:33","slug":"fugitive-who-stole-identity-of-college-grad-who-died-in-1975-pleads-guilty-to-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/fugitive-who-stole-identity-of-college-grad-who-died-in-1975-pleads-guilty-to-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Fugitive who stole identity of college grad who died in 1975 pleads guilty to fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A fugitive who stole a college graduate&#8217;s identity and proceeded to use it for more than 40 years as a way to avoid arrest on an attempted murder charge has now pleaded guilty to fraud, among other charges,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-nm\/pr\/fugitive-who-stole-dead-mans-identity-four-decades-pleads-guilty-fraud-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal authorities said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Craig Campbell, 73, took on the identity of an Arkansas man named Walter Lee Coffman, according to the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for New Mexico, where Campbell was <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/california-stockton-new-mexico-most-wanted-fraud-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">arrested last year<\/a><\/span>. Coffman had recently graduated from the University of Arkansas with an engineering degree when he died in a car accident in 1975, at just 22, the U.S. attorney&#8217;s office said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After remaining on the U.S. Marshals&#8217; &#8220;Most Wanted&#8221; list for four decades, for an attempted murder in Wyoming in the early &#8217;80s, Campbell was found and arrested on Feb. 19, 2025. He has pleaded guilty to misuse of a passport, possession of false papers to defraud the U.S., aggravated identity theft, and possessing a firearm and ammunition as a fugitive of justice, according to the U.S. attorney&#8217;s office. Campbell is expected to face 12 years in prison once sentenced.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell is originally from Stockton, California, and attended University of Arkansas at the same time as Coffman, CBS Sacramento reported. Authorities said Campbell initially applied for a U.S. passport under Coffman&#8217;s name in 1984 and went on to renew it multiple times, using his own address and photograph, through at least 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the years Campbell lived under Coffman&#8217;s identity, he had evaded an outstanding 1983 warrant issued in Wyoming for failing to appear in court on an attempted murder charge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also obtained a Social Security card under Coffman&#8217;s name in 1995, using an Oklahoma driver&#8217;s license and after first contacting the Social Security Administration to remove records of Coffman&#8217;s death, the U.S. attorney&#8217;s office said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After Campbell&#8217;s arrest, the special agent in charge of the FBI Albuquerque office, Raul Bujanda, told CBS affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krqe.com\/news\/crime\/man-on-most-wanted-list-for-more-than-four-decades-caught-in-new-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KRQE<\/a> that the lack of technology at the time helped Campbell accomplish such a scheme.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If this were to happen today, the likelihood of someone being able to go 40 years from today to evade law enforcement, I say that opportunity or that chance is slim to none,&#8221; said Bujanda.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe Campbell received roughly $140,000 in government funds using the fraudulent Social Security card. Authorities said he applied for retirement insurance benefits under Coffman&#8217;s identity starting in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, Campbell purchased property in Coffman&#8217;s name in Weed, New Mexico, and used the fraudulent passport to renew a New Mexico driver&#8217;s license in Coffman&#8217;s name, too, as recently as 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell was arrested during a raid on his residence in Weed, as law enforcement executed a search warrant on the property. The U.S. attorney&#8217;s office said he confronted the officers with a loaded rifle, but eventually set it down\u00a0 &#8220;after repeated commands&#8221; to do so.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were 57 firearms and &#8220;a large quantity of ammunition&#8221; recovered from the home during a subsequent search, the office said.<\/p>\n<p>Federal authorities said he allegedly planted an explosive device at the residence of his estranged wife&#8217;s boyfriend in 1982, which detonated when the wife opened it. 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