AFTER YEARS ON RUN, DRUG SMUGGLER IS ARRESTED

A convicted drug smuggler from Anne Arundel County who authorities say has
been a fugitive for nearly a decade has been arrested in Georgia and will
now serve the 13year prison sentence he has avoided, federal officials
announced yesterday.

Members of the U.S. Marshal's Fugitive Task Force said they arrested Abdul
M. Hakim last night outside his wife's home in Decatur, Ga., a residential
neighborhood in suburban Atlanta.

Deputy U.S. Marshal Matt Burke said the 53yearold suspect, who was born
Calvin Tyrone Fleming in Cleveland, tried to pass himself off as a West
African and produced a passport from Ghana.

Few details of Hakim's drug conviction could be learned yesterday. He
pleaded guilty to federal charges of smuggling marijuana and cocaine into
Annapolis in 1987 and was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

Burke said a federal judge released Hakim on $200,000 bail and allowed him
to go on his own to the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Ariz.,
to serve his sentence. Burke said Hakim never showed up.

Burke said Hakim lived in several states as he eluded attempts to capture
him. Burke said an exhaustive search by his agency led investigators to
Georgia.

Burke said that when members of the task force first approached Hakim, he
spoke in a "bad African accent" and produced the foreign passport and an
international driver's license. His wife could not be reached for comment
yesterday.

Burke said Hakim is being held at a jail in Fulton County, Ga., while
awaiting transfer to a federal correctional institution.

Hakim's 20yearold son, Azzahir Hakim, is a football standout at San
Diego State University.