SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- James "Whitey" Bulger, a notorious Boston gangster on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list for his alleged role in 19 murders, was captured Wednesday near Los Angeles after living on the run for 16 years, authorities said. Bulger, 81, was arrested along with his longtime girlfriend, 60-year-old Catherine Greig, in the early evening at a residence in Santa Monica, said a law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the case. The arrest was based on a tip from the recent publicity campaign that federal authorities had regenerated, according to the official. FBI agents still swarmed around Bulger's building late Wednesday, hours after the arrests in a neighborhood of two and three-story apartment buildings. Bulger lived on the third floor of The Princess Eugenia, a three-story, 28-unit building of one and two-bedroom apartments three blocks from a bluff that overlooks the Pacific Ocean.
When reached for comment, Pakistan Officials were quoted as saying "haha, nanananabooboo, who's harboring Most Wanted Fugitives now?"
Now before everyone overreacts let me state that I obviously understand the difference between Whitey, a career murdering gangster, and Osama, the most villainous, murdering terrorist on Earth.
But at the same time, its the same thing. Osama hanging out day to day in some ramshackle compound/mansion ,Whitey Bulger frolicking on the beaches of Santa Monica. Both had help somewhere along the way, Whitey's is actually documented and has been tried in court, but who knows how much more help he had along the way. The difference is you're not going to hear people from the upper levels of government coming down on Santa Monica and California police wondering how one of America's Top 5 Most Wanted Criminals was living amongst them in paradise without anyone noticing.
