It seems to me that this story tells how a wanted man was actually found because he had become a well-known member of a community/church and was actively publishing poetry:

At some point last month, FBI investigators running Porter’s fingerprints through a database came up with a match to the 1993 theft arrest, according to the law enforcement official. FBI investigators notified the Massachusetts Department of Correction, which notified State Police, and the hunt for Porter began anew.

After running Porter’s alias, Jameson, through Internet searches, investigators discovered their fugitive was an established poet who also had ties to a progressive Unitarian church on Chicago’s West Side.

Horton, the State Police Investigator, was at a loss yesterday to explain why, after trying to run Porter’s prints for all these years, authorities finally got a match.

”We don’t know,” he said. Illinois officials could not immediately say yesterday when the state began putting fingerprints of all known criminals into a nationwide database.

Three Massachusetts State Police investigators and three Department of Correction officials arrived in Chicago Sunday and turned up nothing. Yesterday, they decided to go to the Third Unitarian Church.

”Honest to God, he just walked in,” Horton said.

Interesting choice of words.