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Decades after skipping a Florida court hearing on manslaughter charges, U.S. fugitive Patrick Lutts Jr. faced the family of one of his alleged victims in a Toronto court. Lutts Jr. is accused of killing two teenagers while driving drunk in 1998.
A longtime fugitive wanted for manslaughter in Florida admits it was “a mistake” to flee to Toronto, where he was recently arrested after spending more than 21 years on the run.
In a sworn affidavit obtained by CBC News, Patrick Lutts Jr. publicly outlines for the first time how he hid from U.S. authorities after his involvement in a drunk-driving crash in Orlando, Fla., that killed two teens.
Lutts has no passport, he said, no Canadian bank account and had stayed in the same apartment in Toronto’s Church and Wellesley neighbourhood since 2004.
A CBC investigationrevealed earlier this month that Lutts, 51, lived openly in Toronto after skipping a plea hearing …
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