Police: 'Fat Leonard' escapes house arrest in San Diego

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49% : Law enforcement agencies will now look for him at international borders and airports with license plate readers looking for the U-Haul trucks - but he may have already crossed the border into Mexico, Castillo acknowledged.'Fat Leonard', aka Leonard Glenn Francis, the Malaysian businessman who infiltrated the US Navy in Manila and blackmailed officers into giving him favors and shipping routes, is now on the run after cutting off his GPS monitoring ankle bracelet over the weekend,Francis, 57, was arrested in San Diego in 2013 and pleaded guilty in 2015 to offering $500,000 in bribes to officers after spending years plying the Navy with gifts, cash, trips and prostitutes' in exchange for favorable contracts and secret information.

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