Stanley Shane Self, Child Molestation, Alabama 1982

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - A 74-year-old fugitive from Arizona, Stanley Shane Self, has been arrested in Alabama after applying for a Social Security number under an assumed identity.

Self has been a fugitive since 1986, when a state court jury in La Paz County, Arizona, convicted him on three felony counts of child molestation in 1982.

A federal magistrate judge in the Northern District of Alabama granted the government's motion to dismiss the false statement charges against Self so that he can be returned to Arizona.

According to the affidavit filed in federal court in Alabama, a clerk in the Albertville SSA office searched agency databases for Terry Harlan Martell when Self applied for a Social Security number in that name. The data searches showed a Social Security number had been issued to Martell in 1963, and that Martell died in February 1987, according to the affidavit.

Special agents with the Social Security Administration's Office of Inspector General arrested Self on February 3 on a complaint charging him with making a false statement to a federal agency. Self presented a Rhode Island birth certificate and an Oklahoma driver's license in Martell's name when he applied for a Social Security number in Albertville on January 5, according to an affidavit.

Self was living in Hollywood, Alabama, in Jackson County, when he was arrested. He previously had lived in the Birmingham area, with addresses listed in Vestavia Hills and Mulga.

The U.S. Attorney's Office, the Secret Service, and the Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force are to be commended for taking a serious felon off the street, said Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Caul.

Self is being held on an Arizona warrant resulting from his 1986 convictions, and the La Paz County Sheriff's Office has arranged to transport Self to Arizona.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/fugitive-nearly-three-decades-arrested-alabama-applying-social-security-number