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Escaped Madonna stalker caught by Los Angeles police

February 10, 2012 / 1:56 PM EST / CBS/AP

Robert Dewey Hoskins, left, who was convicted a year ago on charges of threatening to kill singer Madonna, right. CBS/AP Photo/Getty Images

(CBS/AP) Police say they have captured Robert Dewey Hoskins, who was convicted of threatening to kill Madonna and walked away from a Los Angeles-area mental hospital last week.

Hoskins was arrested Friday near the Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, where he escaped last Friday, according to Los Angeles police spokesman Richard French. The 54-year-old Hoskins had been committed there last year and was returned to the facility after his arrest.

Hoskins served a 10-year prison sentence for stalking and threatening Madonna after being convicted by a jury in 1996. The singer reluctantly testified against Hoskins, who was shot by her personal security after he jumped the fence of her Hollywood Hills home.