Oklahoma fugitive evaded the law for years, living as a student with the hopes of going to MIT

Rashid Aidun last saw the promising engineering student he knew as Justin Phillips a week ago in the material science class he teaches at a college campus in New York’s North Country.

Rashid Aidun last saw the promising engineering student he knew as Justin Phillips a week ago in the material science class he teaches at a college campus in New York’s North Country.

Nothing appeared out of the ordinary for the student, who had a short list of other schools he hoped to transfer to that included Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said Aidun, who was his advisor.

The next day, authorities announced the student's real name is Anthony Michael Lennon and he'd been captured after more than a decade on the run. Lennon, 44, was accused of staging a bloody abduction scene at an Oklahoma hotel in 2012 and disappearing after he was charged with child pornography, federal authorities said.

The arrest of Anthony Lennon in New York state. Photo blurred at the source.Moore Police DepartmentLennon, who had previously pleaded guilty to child pornography charges after a friend found 50 gigabytes of child sex abuse images on his computer, was added to Oklahoma’s “Ten Most Wanted List” in July.

“It’s an unbelievable situation,” said Aidun, an associate professor in the school of engineering technology at the State University of New York’s Canton campus.