A fugitive sought after for the attempted murder of his farm out more than 40 years ago was captured after his idiot to suppose the identity of a death for decades was finally unplugged, the Ministry of Justice announced on Wednesday.
Stephen Craig Campbell, 76 New Mexico Last week, during an armed dead end of police officers who found nearly 60 weapons at his residence, prosecutors said.
The alleged crook was on the run to plant a toolbox grinted with explosives outside the house of the Wyoming of his wife’s boyfriend in 1982, the Doj said.
Campbell Mugshot 2025, on the left, Mugshot of 1982, and the weapons found on his property, (Ministry of Justice)
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When she opened the container, a powerful explosion torn off one of her fingers and sent bursts of shells. The explosion also sparked a fire, destroying the residence and a neighboring unit, Sweetwater police, Wyoming said.
According to the Ministry of JusticeCampbell was arrested and accused of attempted murder in the first degree but was released on bond in 1982. Immediately after putting a deposit, he disappeared.
A mandate has been issued, but it disappeared without a trace, avoiding capture for decades by sliding in the identity of Walter Lee Coffman, who died in 1975 at the age of 22.
Coffman graduated from the University of Arkansas only two months before his death. The university files showed that Campbell frequented the same institution during this period, when he and Coffman continued engineering diplomas, suggesting a probable link between the two, said the MJ.
Campbell for the first time asked for a passport under the name of Coffman in 1984 and renewed it several times, always providing a photograph of himself and his current speech, according to the prosecutors. He also defrauded a social security card in the name of Coffman in 1995 using an Oklahoma driving license in the name of Coffman.
Campbell’s Oklahoma license under the name of Coffman. (Ministry of Justice)
In 2003 and around 2003, Campbell moved to Weed, New Mexico, where he bought a 44-acres property in the name of Coffman while continuing to renew the fraudulent passport.
His program began to collapse in 2019 when he went to renew his driving license for New Mexico under the name of Coffman using a passport with the name of Coffman.
The agents of the fraud prevention of the National Passport Center quickly discovered the death of Coffman and the presumed fraudulent use of his decades of his identity.
On February 19, the authorities descended on his property to search his property in Weed, where they said that Campbell was armed with a scope rifle, positioning themselves in a high and partially concealed location.
After repeated orders and the deployment of flashbangs, Campbell emerged from the wood line and was detained. When it was recovered, the rifle was loaded with high power ammunition capable of drilling standard armor vests and ready to pull, with the open -range caps, the lever of selector set to the fire and a round chamber.
The authorities discovered 57 firearms and large amounts of property ammunition. As a fugitive, Campbell is forbidden to have firearms. He was then digital imprint, which confirmed his true identity and his fugitive status.
Jason Mower, spokesperson for the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office Thought about the meaning of Campbell’s capture, noting how the case had remained a constant presence in the department for years.
“The desired poster of Campbell has been on the wall of our office since I started here almost 20 years ago,” said Mower. “I worked hundreds of fugitive cases, helping to find and capture fugitives across the country. But never Campbell – each advance has become cold, whatever the tools we have used. Now, I finally understand why.”
Campbell de Campbell Scoped Rifle. (Ministry of Justice)
Joe Tomich, sub-sherif of the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Bureau, stressed the extent of the case, from its violent origins to research and a dramatic resolution.
“It is almost difficult to wrap yourself in this case – the cold and calculated nature of the original crime, the decades of research, then, after all this time, a tense confrontation in the mountains of New Mexico,” said Tomich.
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“We all took our turn by trying to catch Campbell. I have a file on him the size of a novel, filled with tracks that have not gone nowhere. But we have never abandoned, and now we finally know why he always had a step ahead.”
Campbell appeared on Wednesday in front of the Federal Court to New Mexico on accusations of fraud linked to the use of a stolen identity.
If he is convicted, he risks up to 10 years in federal prison before extradition to Wyoming to be tried for the 1982 bombardment. The Sweetwater County Sheriff office placed an inmate to ensure that he returned to the Wyoming once the federal procedure ends.
