Crime & Safety
Rapist Who Fled to Mexico Sentenced to 18 Years in Prison
He was arrested in Mexico after almost 25 years on the run.

A rapist who spent more than two decades on the run was told told Tuesday he will spend the next 18 years in Prison.
Paul Jackson last week pleaded guilty to charges including kidnapping, rape, and sodomy.
He and his brother, Vance, were arrested in 1990, charged with kidnapping prostitutes, driving them to their home in Hillsboro and holding them for days.
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Their mother bailed them out and they fled.
Vance turned himself in in 2007, denied the charges, and was convicted the following year. He was sentenced to 108 years in prison.
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Paul was finally tracked down in Guadalajara by US Marshals working with Mexican officials last fall.
He had assumed a new identity, gotten married and had two children.
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