{"id":41110,"date":"2025-11-16T06:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T06:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/41110\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T06:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T06:42:07","slug":"florida-sex-offender-gary-howard-arrested-in-indiana-16-years-after-faking-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/41110\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida sex offender Gary Howard arrested in Indiana 16 years after faking death"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Florida creep, who faked his own death to escape arrest and evade police for nearly 16 years, was found living in Indiana, telling law enforcement he hoped to have died before he was captured.<\/p>\n

Gary Wayne Howard, 74, was arrested at his Indianapolis-area home Thursday by US Marshals after being on the lam since his staged death in 2010. <\/p>\n

Howard made the haunting statement as he was hauled away.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had hoped to be dead before you caught up with me,\u201d he reportedly told agents, according to WXIN.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"GaryGary Howard was arrested in Indianapolis on Nov. 13, 2025, after hiding from Florida police since 2010. Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n

The elderly pervert was branded a sex offender for life in Florida after he was found guilty of 22 counts of child pornography possession in Pinellas County in 2007, according to court records viewed by The Post.<\/p>\n

Three years later, Howard violated his probation and escaped the Sunshine State for Indiana.<\/p>\n

Howard is believed to have abandoned an Enterprise rental car near Mauzy Lake in Morganfield, KY, making it appear he killed himself, officials said.<\/p>\n

Officials called the scheme a \u201cdeliberate attempt by Howard to stage his own death to appear as a suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n

An arrest warrant for Howard was issued out of Pinellas County in March 2011, when he failed to register as a sex offender.<\/p>\n

The order stated the 5-foot-5, 250-pound fugitive should be brought safely to court in Clearwater, Florida, to face his charges, court records showed.<\/p>\n

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Detectives discovered Howard had a \u201csignificant number of relatives\u201d living in Indiana that he could \u201cdepend on to help him stay off the grid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Surveillance of the area spotted Howard living in a home in the Irvington neighborhood. US Marshal agents arrested Howard as he stepped out onto his front porch on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Howard was booked in Vanderburgh County Jail, 160 miles southwest of Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

He is being held on charges from other agencies, and is expected to be extradicted to Florida where he will face possible imprisonment for violation of probation and 32 charges for failure to register as a sex offender.<\/p>\n

Howard is also facing an \u201cAdam Walsh prosecution case\u201d\u00a0in Indiana, a federal law aimed at protecting children from sexual exploitation and violent crime, to prevent child abuse and child pornography, to promote Internet safety.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis arrest exemplifies the tenacity and determination of Deputy US Marshals and our\u00a0task force partners\u00a0to bring every fugitive to Justice,\u201d said William Berger Sr., US Marshal for the Middle District of Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can run, you can hide, but law enforcement never stops hunting those who defy it \u2013 justice has a way of catching up to those who run from it,\u201d Berger said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida creep, who faked his own death to escape arrest and evade police for nearly 16 years,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3283,1239,3640,9424,9,11,10,11854,22194,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-41110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-child-pornography","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-indiana","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-sex-offenders","16":"tag-us-marshals-service","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}