Man freed after 23 years on the run

Associated Press

CINCINNATI

David Ingram was a ghost to the government for more than two decades.

He didn’t have a driver’s license or Social Security number. He didn’t pay taxes, and he worked off the books in construction.

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports Ingram needed to take that approach.

He was a convicted drug dealer who ran instead of serving a prison sentence of five to 25 years imposed in 1988 by a judge in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court.

Forty-eight-year-old Ingram was caught in March after he applied for a driver’s license.

He served seven months in Ohio’s prison this year before a judge ordered him released and placed him on probation for three years.