Woman wanted 22 years ago found, police say

TAMPA -- A woman on the lam for 22 years was arrested Thursday night thanks to a Tampa police officer's investigative work, authorities say.

An investigation of an April armed robbery of an Advance America led Officers Brett Owen and William Logan to the woman, identified in a police report as 55-year-old Bethney Jean Bolds (left).

On his own time, Owen contacted the Florida Department of Corrections, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and requested Bolds' fingerprints. Reports from the agency revealed that the woman also was wanted in connection with warrants from 1986, when Bolds failed to appear in court on two counts of resisting arrest with violence on Tampa police officers.

-- Rodney Thrash, Times staff writer

[Hillsborough Country Sheriff's Office]