A man who had been on the run for 30 years was captured this weekend at his home south of Branson by members of the Southwest Missouri Fugitive Task Force.

61-year-old Oscar Richardson was living under the assumed name of Eugene Ward.

Richardson was captured without incident, according to the U.S. Marshal's office after working with Florida law enforcement agencies. Richardson was just into the second year of a 10-year sentence for a pair of armed robberies when he escaped from the Kissimmee Work Release Center in 1979.

A tip led a Florida fugitive task force to contact the Southwest Missouri Fugitive Task Force, which ran computer checks and then performed surveillance of the man's home where the long arm of the law finally caught up with Richardson. on Saturday. His home was near the Missouri/Arkansas line.

Authorities say Richardson forced two Eckerd Drug Store employees at gunpoint to open the store's safe on January 28th, 1977... and in 1979 he robbed a convenience store in Tampa, also at gunpoint.

Richardson is being held in the Taney County Jail at Forsyth pending extradition back to Florida. Authorities are still trying to piece together the life Richard had been living in the Branson area for the past three decades.