Boston mobster Whitey Bulger arrested in LA

• gorocks99

  

  He has been wanted for 19 murders and has been on the lam for 16 years.
  
  http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/06/23/whitey_bulger_surrenders_in_calif_after_16_years_on_run/
• Mohican00

  

  he's got a funny name
• SportsAndLady

  

  Sweet, an 81 year old dude is off the streets lol
• coyotes22

  

  Thats a long time to be on the run.
• j_crazy

  

  isn't this guy's story what the departed was based on?
• karen lotz

  

  SportsAndLady;811016 wrote:Sweet, an 81 year old dude is off the streets lol

  
  
  Think Frank Costello from The Departed, as his character was based off of Bulger. Doesn't matter how old he is, its good that he was caught.
• gorocks99

  

  j_crazy;811020 wrote:isn't this guy's story what the departed was based on?

  
  Yep ... if this goes to trial, the FBI is gonna be sweating bullets.
• 4cards

  

  gorocks99;810993 wrote:He has been wanted for 19 murders and has been on the lam for 16 years.
  
  http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/06/23/whitey_bulger_surrenders_in_calif_after_16_years_on_run/

  ...If convicted, what sentence would he get, LIFE? He's only a few months away from the grave as it is @ 81.
• gorocks99

  

  4cards;811029 wrote:...If convicted, what sentence would he get, LIFE? He's only a few months away from the grave as it is @ 81.

  
  My guess is they'll stall the trial enough that he croaks before being sentenced to anything, yeah.
• SportsAndLady

  

  karen lotz;811022 wrote:its good that he was caught.

  
  Why though? Was he still shooting up people? Was he still running a criminal business?
  
  Or just because of all the terrible things hes done in the past, it's good they finally got him for those?
• karen lotz

  

  SportsAndLady;811038 wrote:Why though? Was he still shooting up people? Was he still running a criminal business?
  
  Or just because of all the terrible things hes done in the past, it's good they finally got him for those?

  
  Uhhh, yeah. You think just because he's 81 and the 21 or however many murders were in his past there is no need to arrest him?
• SportsAndLady

  

  karen lotz;811045 wrote:Uhhh, yeah. You think just because he's 81 and the 21 or however many murders were in his past there is no need to arrest him?

  
  I didn't say there is no need to arrest him..I just am not sitting here going, "thank god, we are now safer with this guy off the streets!"
  
  If they would have caught this guy in his prime, great...but I'm not gonna get all excited about catching someone decades after all his damage was done. Like, cool we got em, but what took so long? And why are we celebrating the fact that we couldn't catch this guy til he was 81 freakin years old
• THE4RINGZ

  

  I read both "The Westies" and "The Bulger Brothers", this cat did some craaaaaazy shit back in the day.
  
  I, like, a lot of people thought he had fled the country (Ireland was the most likely place) and died of natural causes there.