Charles E. Johnson (FBI Most Wanted fugitive)

For the U.S. politician, see Charles Elliott Johnson.
Charles E. Johnson

Wanted picture
Born February 22, 1907
Middlesbrough, England
Died unknown
Occupation burglar
Criminal charge
 robbery
Criminal penalty
 4 to 8 years imprisonment
Criminal status deceased

Charles E. Johnson (born February 22, 1907) was a New York burglar who was listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted during 1953. He was a professional boxer.[1] While still a teenager, Johnson was first arrested for burglary in 1921. He continued committing burglary and armed robbery throughout the 1920s until his eventual arrest in 1934 after a robbery in New York. Sentenced to serve four to eight years imprisonment, he was transferred to Dannemora Prison after he shot a police officer during a failed jailbreak from Sing Sing Prison. Although released briefly for six months, he remained imprisoned from 1935 until 1952.

Within a year however, Johnson was on the run from New York authorities after violating his parole for the third time. On August 28, he and four others robbed a bank robber of $5,000 from a previous bank robbery in Lakesville, North Carolina committed four months earlier. Following the bank robber's arrest, he implicated Johnson and the others and, as a result of federal statutes, made their robbery a federal offense with Johnson officially placed on the Ten Most Wanted List on November 12, 1953.

Federal agents managed to track Johnson down six weeks later when a local resident of Central Islip, New York recognized Johnson from his photo in a recent magazine article. With local police officers, his ranch-style home was raided at around midnight on December 28, 1953. Taken into custody with little incident, Johnson was convicted at his trial for a third and final time.[2]

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