fugitives

The NYPD is searching for a man who escaped their custody in handcuffs during a traffic stop in the Bronx.

Wright was convicted of murdering a gas station attendant in 1962, escaped from state prison in 1970, and dressed as a priest, hijacked a plane in Detriot in 1972.

George Wright was convicted of murdering a decorated World War II veteran at his New Jersey gas station during a robbery in 1962