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Yes. In the 1990s he and his younger brother James Richard Cuda were running an investment scam in Texas that primarily targeted senior citizens in a multi-state fraud. They got caught in 1993, charged with mail fraud, bank larceny, and conspiracy to commit bank larceny. Both were sentenced to prison. James served his time and was released on May 4, 1996. John, who got a longer sentence of 70 months (with a projected release date of Sept. 30, 1999), decided NOT to serve out his sentence and on May 4, 1996 he escaped (on the same day his brother was released). Fast forward, the brothers showed up in Puerto Vallarta using phony ID: John became Antonio Copella (variant spellings of Capela, Cappela, Capel and Cupel) and James became Jonathan James Tomasello (with another suspected alias of Michael Logan). They began their timeshare scams and flourished. In October 2013 the two were arrested in Mexico on charges of real estate fraud, with bail set at $1 million USD ($81,842,723.93 pesos). They promptly made bail and walked out of jail, but Immigration got curious about their legal status and ran John's fingerprints through the US Federal Marshalls’ database. They hit the jackpot you might say. So on December 16, 2013 he was nabbed at the Puerto Vallarta airport and turned over to Interpol, who delivered him to the US Marshalls in the USA --- at which time he was promptly arrested on an outstanding bench warrant. By January 2014 he was back in Lompoc to serve out his remaining time. Presumably his brother is still running scams in Mexico, probably using yet another alias. Complete details at http://tinyurl.com/j84b2px