U.S. Marshals had been searching for 33-year-old Isaiah Tilghman since December.
A man who escaped a Western Pennsylvania prison last year was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals in Philadelphia on Friday.
Isaiah Tilghman, 33, escaped the Blair County Prison on Dec. 3 and was known to be in Philadelphia that month, according to a U.S. Marshals spokesperson. Marshals took Tilghman into custody on the 3300 block of Aramingo Avenue around 11 a.m. Friday, the service’s Philadelphia unit said inPhotos from the arrest show Tilghman against the exterior wall of a Planet Fitness gym. Mashals said they had been surveilling Tilghman this week, and they followed him as he drove a black BMW from a home in Kensington to the gym, where he was surrounded by 20 officers after exiting.
Marshals said they learned that Tilghman had fled to Philadelphia in the weeks following. On Dec. 15, Marshals recovered on the 2600 block of South Front Street a red Ford F-150 that they believe Tilghman had stolen. The vehicle’s license plate was stolen off another truck in Port Richmond,Tilghman was awaiting sentencing when he escaped. After his capture, he was additionally charged with escape, flight to avoid apprehension, and related charges.
The arrest was “a result of Fugitive Task Forces in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, diligently working together,” said Robert Clark, supervisory deputy U.S. Marshal for the Eastern Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force.
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