By Erin Sullivan, Times Staff Writer
Friday, January 7, 2011
ZEPHYRHILLS — Alfred "Catfish" White waited for the end with a Pepsi and a Marlboro Red on the back porch of his lady's house. He knew she called the cops. She'd been threatening to do that since she found out he's been dodging the law for nearly 14 years on a warrant for escape.
"Do it," he told her.
It was about 4 a.m. Wednesday at her place on Eighth Street. They hadn't been together all that long; about five or six months. When they met, he swore he'd never get in another relationship again. His last girlfriend, he says, skipped out while he was in the hospital after a stroke and a heart attack; took his house and his Harley and left him with $4.24. He was done. He was just going to ...