(Houston, TX) -- A man who escaped from an Oklahoma prison more than 36 years ago is now in jail in Houston. U.S. marshals arrested 58-year-old Stephen Michael Paris on Thursday morning at his workplace in southwest Houston.
Paris was 22 when he escaped from prison in Oklahoma, where he was serving nine years on a drug-dealing charge.
Investigators tracked Paris down after they noticed an obituary for his mother said she had a son named Stephen Michael Chavez, which was his alias. Paris is awaiting extradition to Oklahoma.