Pizza, then handcuffs. Police catch Eric Conn as he leaves restaurant in Honduras

By Bill Estep

bestep@herald-leader.com

December 05, 2017 01:06 PM

UPDATED 1 MINUTE AGO

After making and stealing millions of dollars handling federal disability cases and fleeing to avoid prison, former high-flying Eastern Kentucky lawyer Eric C. Conn had his last meal as a free man at a Pizza Hut before police caught him.

The FBI confirmed Tuesday that police arrested Conn on Saturday, six months to the day since he absconded after a meeting in Lexington on June 2.

Police arrested Conn in La Ceiba, Honduras, a city of about 200,000 on the Caribbean coast of the Central American nation.

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