To what extent did his efforts to curry favors with politicians here — and in the United States, where he made contributions to many congressmen — help him elude serious scrutiny despite suspicions raised about his activities in the past?
If a guy with a dodgy moustache offered you, Laura, a testy lesbian with a jerk of a dad, 5,000 kroner to help him elude cops who are investigating a murder conspiracy, thereby exposing you to the risk of prosecution at very least for perverting the course of justice, would you go for it?
Mr. Marti's relatives were arrested because they helped him elude the authorities, officials said.
She added that Mr. Crockam was the only suspect and that it was not believed that anyone had helped him elude the police.
In 2012, while Bulger awaited trial, Greig was sentenced to eight years in prison for her role in helping him elude authorities.
Extraditing them took years of legal and political work, United States officials have said, because Mr. Almonte's brother, an official in the Dominican Army, helped him elude the authorities.
BOSTON — Catherine E. Greig, the longtime girlfriend of the crime boss James (Whitey) Bulger, was sentenced on Tuesday to eight years in prison for her role in helping him elude the authorities during the 16 years the two spent in hiding.
A sometime police informant who had spent most of his adult life serving prison sentences for burglary, theft, forgery, sexual assault and armed robbery, Mr. Olson had a grasp of the law enforcement system that helped him elude capture even after the federal police began tracking him, said Ian Mulgrew, a columnist for The Vancouver Sun and author of a book about the case, "Final Payoff".
As a multiagency force of more than 100 police officers continued to search the northeast San Fernando Valley for alleged cop killer David A. Garcia, the suspect's twin brother and another man were charged Tuesday with helping him elude police.
Chief Napoleon said he believed that Mr. Armstrong's choice in victims might be what helped him to elude law-enforcement officials for so long.
Tried, convicted, and imprisoned for manslaughter, the man escapes from jail, goes on the lam, and wins the sympathy and then the love of a high-born, high-spirited young woman who helps him to elude the officials and petty moralists who are on his trail.
