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Patrick Benjamin Paddock, also known as Benjamin Hoskins Paddock,
alias Benjamin Hoskins Paddock
[FONT="]Benjamin Hoskins Paddock tried to run down an FBI agent with his car in Las Vegas in 1960 and wound up on the agencys Most Wanted list after escaping from a federal prison in Texas in 1968, when Stephen Paddock was a teen.
[/FONT][FONT="]oldest of four children, Paddock was 7 when his father was arrested for the robberies. A neighbor, Eva Price, took him swimming while FBI agents searched the family home.[/FONT]
[FONT="]She told the Tucson Citizen at the time: Were trying to keep Steve from knowing his father is held as a bank robber. I hardly know the family, but Steve is a nice boy. Its a terrible thing.[/FONT]
[FONT="]An FBI poster issued after the escape said Benjamin Hoskins Paddock had been diagnosed as psychopathic and should be considered armed and very dangerous. Hed been serving a 20-year sentence for a string of bank robberies in Phoenix.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The elder Paddock remained on the lam for nearly a decade, living under an assumed name in Oregon. Investigators found him in 1978 after he attracted publicity for opening the states first licensed bingo parlor. He died in 1998.
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also went by the aliases "Big Daddy" and "Old Baldy." In 1971, an FBI agent described Paddock, then on the run, to the Tucson Daily News as "a glib, smooth-talking man who is egotistical and arrogant."
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1960, the older Paddock, then said to be 34, was accused of robbing at least three banks in Phoenix, according to
archival newspaper accounts. He allegedly stole more than $20,000, the equivalent of around $165,000 today. In 1960, FBI agents reportedly arrested him in Las Vegas after a bank employee gave police information about the getaway car. He reportedly appeared in a lineup before bank employees and was later sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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