Thursday, June 23, 2011
The FBI finally caught the 81-year-old Bulger Wednesday at a residence in Santa Monica along with his longtime girlfriend Catherine Greig just days after the government launched a new publicity campaign to locate the fugitive mobster, said Steven Martinez, FBI’s assistant director in charge in Los Angeles. The arrest was based on a tip from the campaign, he said.
The FBI had been conducting a surveillance operation in the area where the arrest was made, said police Sgt. Rudy Flores, who gave no details of the arrest. FBI agents still swarmed around Bulger’s building late Wednesday, hours after the arrests in a neighborhood of two and three-story apartment buildings.
Bulger lived on the third floor of The Princess Eugenia 1012 Third Street Santa Monica CA 90403, see photo above, a three-story, 28-unit building of one and two-bedroom apartments three blocks from a bluff that overlooks the Pacific Ocean with Catherine Greig, see her photo above. Neighbors said the couple hadn’t stood out as unusual. Barbara Gluck lives on the same floor as Bulger and Greig. She said she didn’t know their names but recognized them after she heard news of their arrest from photos on the Internet.
Fugitive Boston mob boss, James “Whitey” Bulger, who was portrayed by Jack Nicholson in Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed” may have been spotted on his way to watch the movie in a San Diego CA mall in October 2006.The Phoenix
“He has blue eyes. I got close to him as he was leaving the theater and looked right into them. He was wearing a white shirt, an Oxford button-down, white shoes, New Balance, and a floppy fisherman’s-bucket hat, and shorts.”
The caller reached me a day or two after he’d gone to a matinee screening of the Martin Scorsese movie The Departed in downtown San Diego on October 6, 2006. He was so sure that in the audience he’d spotted the South Boston gangster upon whom Jack Nicholson’s character was supposed to be based that afterward he’d maneuvered his way to the front of the crowd to get a good look at the man’s face. Seeing the man’s eyes were blue, he’d tailed him for four blocks before losing him near the trolley, he said.
That he’d lost sight of a 77-year-old man was embarrassing enough – I figured the guy wouldn’t have made that up. I was impressed by his initiative; he had the makings of a real fugitive hunter. While following the look-alike, he’d called the San Diego bureau of the FBI, and that afternoon, an agent had pulled tape from a surveillance camera situated in the mall outside the theater. It showed the backside of someone going down an escalator who, the agent told him, had the same mannerisms as Bulger.
Bill Warner Sarasota Private Investigator Sarasota Fl www.wbipi.com
