DENVER (KDVR) — A man who escaped from a federal prison in Littleton in 2018 may have stolen more than $700,000 while he was still behind bars.
A June indictment charged 58-year-old Alan May with 17 counts of wire and mail fraud, plus one count of escape. Now the U.S. Marshals Service is offering a $5,000 reward for anyone who can help the agency catch him.
May escaped from the Federal Correctional Institution in Englewood near South Kipling Street and Quincy Avenue on Dec. 21, 2018. He stole a Bureau of Prisons work truck and drove off the prison grounds without anyone noticing.
Hours later, he used a credit card to rent a U-Haul truck from a Denver facility and then abandoned it behind a Waffle House in Fort Worth, Texas. May was seen at his mother’s house in Houston the day after his escape but a U.S. Marshals spokesman told FOX31 the trail for May has turned cold.
Fraud inmate schemed more than $700K from prison: indictment
From 2016-18, when May was still behind bars, he set up fake energy companies, according to the indictment.
Just about every state has an account for unclaimed property. Investigators say May set up the sham companies in Texas through the Secretary of State’s website and then found unclaimed oil and gas royalties that had never been paid out in Kansas, Louisiana and North Dakota.
May contacted those states and portrayed himself as a representative of…
