[Updated at 1:42 p.m. ET] A man convicted of stalking singer Madonna was re-apprehended Friday in California, a week after he escaped from a southern California mental hospital, the Los Angeles Police Department told CNN.
Robert Dewey Hoskins, 54, who once threatened to knife Madonna, was arrested in Long Beach, LAPD said. He walked away from Metropolitan State Hospital in the Los Angeles suburb of Norwalk on February 3, police said.
[Initial post, 1:36 a.m. ET] A man convicted of stalking singer Madonna, and who once threatened to knife her, has escaped from a southern California mental hospital and is being sought by police.
Robert Dewey Hoskins, 54, walked away from Metropolitan State Hospital in the Los Angeles suburb of Norwalk on February 3, police said.
Hoskins had served a 10-year prison sentence for stalking the "Material Girl," police said.
"Hoskins is highly psychotic when not taking his medication and has very violent tendencies," Los Angeles police said in a statement. "The public is being warned to notify police immediately if he is found, and to not engage him on their own."
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When someone physchotic and a huge danger to others why cant they put a gps chip implant in them? Its safe for animals should be ok for dangerous human beings also.
A good thought, but then there is the easy answer:
Animals don't have the intelligance to take a knife and cut the chip out of them and drop it in someone else's purse or handbag.
Pretty sure someone would notice a bloody guy trying to slip a bloody gps chip in a lady's Gucci...
That might be, but what if the individual simply dicthes it in a trash can, the back of a taxi, or heck, even the sewer?
Every time I hear about a soldier or diplomat or some other high profile person taken hostage, I wonder why they don't do that to them. If you can locate the person, you can send in the SEALS.
@ Bombo
And when the SEALs arrived, all they would find is:
1. A bloody microchip laying in the trash with an ambush waiting for them
or
2. A severed limb containing the chip with an ambush waiting for them
Insert it between his shoulder blades.
@ nfs27
ok, so...
3. A severed upper torso containing the chip with an ambush waiting for them
Hmmm the gps chip theory is interesting. I guess I always just wonder how is it that someone like this can escape in the first place?
Oh, OK, I see that you are a fan of the movie "Shawshank Redemption".
Stephen King would be proud.
The superbowl was just to much for him
Lmao! I don't care who you are...that was funny...
Fast as fast can be, you'll never catch me!
Madonna?
Okay, maybe 20 years ago...
Still hope they catch him.
He could turn his crazy eyes to LL...
Probably saw that halftime show and couldn't take it anymore.
Why do they use his middle name in the article?
It seems to be standard procedure when reporting on psychos. James Earl Ray. Lee Harvey Oswald. John Wayne Gacy. If I ever do something psycho, they'll refer to me as ___ Lawrence ___.
I've often wondered the same thing myself!
Sounds more...evil? Powerful?
Scary?
When I was a kid, I knew I was in big trouble any time my mother used my first, middle and last nanes to holler at me. My dad and I have the same first name. If she used my first and last names, I was in trouble. All three namees and I knew my little ass was toast.
@jj, good observation on the usage of middle names of serial killers. I don't think middle names were used for Bundy or Dahmer.
Please tell me are kidding Yolanda. If you are bad joke.
@pmk1953, LOL, I still get the 3 names from my mother. When she calls me Victoria, I know that something is coming down.
And how do we know he's insane? He's a MADONNA stalker.
Or sight-and-hearing impaired...
Glad he was caught.
Lmao well i was kinda joking about the gps chip, but if it was a reality, then my guess those persons would be under anesthetic and wouldnt neccessarilly be aware of it.
If they implant it close to a major organ, they may not be so willing to dig it out.
Up to you to decide what your definition of a major organ *is*....
Implant it into his gonad bag that will work!
My point exactly!
Wait a minute, wait a minute...Bob Hoskins was stalking Madonna?
Does Roger and Jessica Rabbit know of this...?!?
Probably still traumatized by the woman-dumping-him-in-favor-of-another-woman situation in Mona Lisa.
Escape? Of course, why didn't I think of that.
The caption says he repeadedly scaled the fence to her home.
She should hire a bunch of big nasty freaks to beat people to death who get too close.