Overview
- Anthony Lennon, listed on Oklahoma’s Ten Most Wanted, was captured in Canton, New York after years on the run under the name Justin Phillips.
- Authorities say he staged an elaborate, bloody abduction scene at a Moore, Oklahoma Super 8 in 2012 and emptied his bank accounts the day before he vanished.
- He enrolled at SUNY Canton under the alias, obtained identification documents, and was identified after arrest when fingerprints exposed his true identity.
- A federal complaint unsealed in the Western District of Oklahoma charges Lennon with failure to register as a sex offender, alongside the 2012 state child pornography case.
- Investigators are executing search warrants on devices and residences in New York to probe possible additional crimes, and Lennon is being held pending extradition to Oklahoma.