"He had a serious criminal record, and he is exactly the kind of person who Congress never wanted to possess a gun," said Patrick Berarducci, spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Caton and Meehan were most recently sleeping outside in a cemetery, police said. Tom Campbell, Akron FBI supervisor, said his office had been pursuing leads that Caton was in Texas.

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"She was walking down the street and drinking Mountain Dew like it was nothing," Cambridge police officer James Dodd said. "She said, I am the one you are looking for,’" he said.

"She said, The things I do for men. Every time I get involved with a man, things like this happen.’"

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But Akron police and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents praised Caton for his public service because Caton was an informant for police. Caton’s wife, Sherry, and his mother, Jacqueline, spoke on Caton’s behalf as well. They all wanted Caton’s probation in a burglary case to be terminated and Caton sent back to Oriana House for rehabilitation.

Man involved in other high-speed chases

Published Friday, July 14, 2000,

Caton was back in court last year, appearing before Summit County Common Pleas Judge John R. Adams for another probation violation.

Adams said he had planned to send Caton to prison. However, an Akron police detective, Russ McFarland, intervened on Caton's behalf, telling the judge that Caton was helping with an ongoing investigation. So, once again, he was spared a lengthy jail sentence.