{"id":205747,"date":"2026-03-25T17:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205747\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:30:14","slug":"americas-most-wanted-fugitive-in-1988-florida-heist-dies-while-hiding-in-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205747\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018America\u2019s Most Wanted\u2019 fugitive in 1988 Florida heist dies while hiding in NC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ASHEVILLE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (NCSBI) and FBI said a federal fugitive wanted in connection with a notorious 1988 Florida heist died while hiding in western North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">John Anthony Quinn, who used aliases including Dale Calvin Cluckey, Dale Clucke, Jack Quinn and James Sullivan, was wanted for his alleged role in the April 1988 theft of $1.3 million in cash from Federal Protection Service, an armored car company in Riviera Beach, Florida, the NCSBI said. He was 48 at the time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"John Anthony Quinn\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/D2XW24F4PBFQFBXDJAGTTRVNUM.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1125\" \/>John Anthony Quinn(FBI)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Quinn worked as a manager and is accused of stealing money from the company\u2019s vault, the NCSBI said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Quinn was wanted by the FBI for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and by the state of Florida on a charge of first-degree grand theft, officials said. He previously was featured on \u201cAmerica\u2019s Most Wanted\u201d and \u201cUnsolved Mysteries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The NCSBI said Quinn died of natural causes in December at a hospital in Asheville. Officials said he was using the alias Jim Klein at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The FBI Laboratory Latent Prints Unit positively identified Quinn from a fingerprint card, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Feel more informed, prepared, and connected with FOX Carolina. For more free content like this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/page\/apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/page\/apps\/\">download our apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WHNS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASHEVILLE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (NCSBI) and FBI said a federal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[94446,94445,94452,94449,2362,94450,28,30,29,94455,94454,94451,94448,115,94444,94447,94453],"class_list":["post-205747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-1988-florida-heist","tag-americas-most-wanted-fugitive","tag-asheville-north-carolina","tag-dale-calvin-cluckey","tag-fbi","tag-fbi-unlawful-flight","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-fox-carolina","tag-fox-carolina-news","tag-grand-theft-florida","tag-john-anthony-quinn","tag-news","tag-north-carolina-sbi","tag-riviera-beach-armored-car-theft","tag-western-north-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}