Leslie Isben Rogge

Leslie Isben Rogge (born March 8, 1940 in Seattle, Washington [cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/19961022212627/www.fbi.gov/mostwant/rogginfo.htm |publisher=FBI |title=The FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives |accessdate=1996-10-22] ) was imprisoned at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas in the 1970s for car theft and grand larceny.He was later convicted and sentenced to 25 years for a 1984 bank robbery in Key Largo, Florida. In September 1985, he bribed a corrections officer and escaped from prison in Moscow, Idaho.

Following his escape, he went on to commit additional bank robberies, including one at an Exchange Bank branch in El Dorado, Arkansas and at a bank in High Point, North Carolina in 1986. cite news|title=Robber on List Snared El Dorado Bank was Target in '86 |publisher=Arkansas Democrat-Gazette |author=Brooks, Jim |date=1996, May 19] On January 24, 1990, Rogge became the 430th Fugitive to be added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, where he remained for the next six years. [cite news|title=FBI's most wanted meet set criteria |publisher=The Washington Times |author=Price, Joyce |date=1991, February 22] cite news|title=You Can Run, But Not Hide, From the Net; FBI Home Page Nabs Fugitive in Guatemala |publisher=The Washington Post |author=Moore, Molly |date=1996, June 6] [ [http://web.archive.org/web/19961022212527/www.fbi.gov/mostwant/rogge.htm FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives wanted poster of Rogge] , as archived at Wayback Machine, October 22, 1996] He was featured on the television program, Unsolved Mysteries and on America's Most Wanted five times. In 1991, he also robbed a bank in Webb City, Missouri.

On May 19, 1996, Rogge surrendered at the United States Embassy in Guatemala, after Guatemalan authorities had launched a manhunt upon being tipped off by someone who saw Rogge's photo on the FBI website. [cite news|title=U.S. Fugitive Surrenders In Guatemala After Photo Is Seen On Internet |publisher=Associated Press |date=1996, May 19] While on the run, he also spent time in Antigua where he went by the name Bill Young.

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