One for the books . . .
Louis Papakostas, 35, was sentenced to eight years in prison on drug charges in Corpus Christi, Texas, in May. He had been convicted in 1987 and had gone on the lam for nearly 15 years, but he ran into his prosecutor at a restaurant in May and decided to say a nostalgic hello, apparently believing that authorities were not interested in him anymore.
Papakostas even had to jog the prosecutor's memory, but once that was done, the prosecutor notified police.
[Corpus Christi Caller-Times, 5-31-02]
Dan