FHP: Man walking on SB I-75 identified as Georgia prison escapee
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla. — Florida Highway Patrol arrested a man Saturday morning in Punta Gorda they say escaped from prison in Georgia.

At 6:02 a.m., troopers stopped a pedestrian walking on southbound Interstate 75 at mile marker 158 in Charlotte County. They were able to identify the man as 67-year-old Anthony Moret of Valdosta, Georgia.

FHP explains a warrant search revealed Moret had an active warrant for “escape while serving life in prison without the possibility of parole for murder.”

Moret was arrested and taken to the Charlotte County Jail to await extradition back to Georgia.

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