The year was 1993. The Fugitive was the best movie of the year, Stone Temple Pilots was taking over the music scene, and 8-pound cell phones were all the rage. Meanwhile in Ponce, Puerto Rico, a deranged man named Carlos Rodriguez-Torres decided to throw an unsuspecting jogger off an overpass down to a highway and his death.

C-Rod was sentenced to 99 years in prison for his crime. However, according to Ponce police, he was released from the big house and installed in an ingenious program where convicts, even those guilty of murder, can live in the comfort of home while wearing an electronic surveillance ankle bracelet. The San Juan Star reports that more than 100 convicted murderers were let out of prison thanks to the "program". But after realizing this simply wasn't a good idea, the government decided to begin putting participants in the program back in jail starting in 2003. But when they went looking for Torres-Rodriguez, apparently he wasn't at home. In fact, he wasn't even in the country.

Instead, C-Rod decided that a vacation in Hoboken was long overdue. Fortunately for the Hoboken Harriers and Mile Square Running Clubs, Hoboken's Anti-Vice Squad came across the tourist/murderer in the vicinity of 3rd and Jackson in the city's public housing complex while doing a sweep for possible drug dealers. The squad, comprised of Detectives Steven Aguair, Mike DeTrizio and Anthony Russo, as well as Sgt. Mike DeTrizio, approached C-Rod after not recognizing him as a resident of the building. They proceeded to question the Puerto Rican why he was there (he said he was visiting an Aunt, but the name didn't check out) and eventually they compelled him to hand over an ID Card with a Social Security number on it.

Upon checking the nationwide crime database, police found a warrant reading that C-Rod had escaped from Puerto Rico after being convicted for homicide and for not returning an anklet. And if you needed one more reason not to get body ink, tattoos confirmed that the HPD had nabbed the correct man.

"I applaud our Police Department for their actions," Mayor Roberts told the Jersey Journal, "and as I have said repeatedly, our public safety departments do a remarkable job with the highest levels of professionalism."

C-Rod is scheduled to be extradited to Puerto Rico for re-sentencing soon.