article_snippet.sent: Whitey Bulger pictured in a 1973 mugshot, right .
article_snippet.sent: Bulger topped the FBI's most wanted list for 16 years before Bulger was finally arrested in 2011.
article_snippet.sent: Bulger had a long career of run-ins with the law, dating all the way back to when Bulger was just 14 years old.
article_snippet.sent: In the early 70s, after spending nine years in prison for armed robbery and truck hijacking, Bulger returned to Boston and joined a prominent Irish mob in Boston.
article_snippet.sent: Bulger pictured on the left in 2011, after Bulger was finally arrested after 16 years on the run.
article_snippet.sent: Bulger is currently imprisoned in a maximum security prison in Florida.
article_snippet.sent: As Bulger became climbed up the rankings of a prominent Irish mob in South Boston, Bulger was recruited in the mid 1970s to become an informant for the FBI, supplying the bureau with information on a rival crime family.
article_snippet.sent: Then in 1997, Bulger was outed as an informant in newspaper reports and Bulger went on the run when Bulger own handler
article_snippet.sent: said Bulger was about to be hit with an indictment.
article_snippet.sent: For the next 16 years, Bulger evaded law enforcement until Bulger was finally caught on June 22, 2011 at a Santa Monica, California apartment
article_snippet.sent: Bulger shared with Bulger longtime girlfriend.
article_snippet.sent: Bulger went on trial two years later on 32 counts of racketeering, money laundering, extortion, weapons charges, and ties to 19 murders.
article_snippet.sent: Bulger was found guilty on 31 of those charges in August and sentenced to two consecutive life in prison sentences in November 2013.
article_snippet.sent: The 84-year-old is currently incarcerated at an all-male federal high-security prison in Sumterville, Florida.