Key takeaways Powered by Yahoo Scout. Yahoo is using AI to generate key points from this article. This means the info may not always match what’s in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Jose Alex Burgos and Jose Alex Burgos-Garcia, two men with similar names but different birthdates and Social Security numbers, were involved in a case of mistaken identity resulting in Burgos-Garcia having a 1999 sentence vacated. Burgos, 58, remains a fugitive after skipping bail and being convicted in absentia on felony drug trafficking charges in June 1999, while Burgos-Garcia, 46, was mistakenly processed as Burgos and had the 1999 sentence imposed in absentia by a retired judge recently vacated. Despite the mix-up, Burgos-Garcia is still in jail on drug trafficking charges from 2009, while Burgos remains wanted and scheduled for his next court appearance on March 2. See more Feb. 10—WILKES-BARRE — Jose Alex Burgos remains wanted, while Jose Alex Burgos-Garcia had a mistakenly imposed sentence recently vacated. While the two men share similar names and were fugitives, their dates of birth are 12 years apart, and they have different Social Security numbers. Only Burgos
