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News pix helped cops nab fugitive

Latif Miller robbed a man for his cheesesteaks, police said. Miller, 18, was wanted in the Oct. 21 shooting of a pizza deliveryman on 16th street near Clearfield, and just over a week after his mug shot appeared in the Daily News Week's Most Wanted column, police and FBI tracked him down and arrested him.

Latif Miller robbed a man for his cheesesteaks, police said.

Miller, 18, was wanted in the Oct. 21 shooting of a pizza deliveryman on 16th street near Clearfield, and just over a week after his mug shot appeared in the Daily News Week's Most Wanted column, police and FBI tracked him down and arrested him.

Miller and another man, previously identified by the FBI as Khalil White, ambushed the 38-year-old deliveryman while he was making a delivery to an apartment, shot him once, wounding him in the stomach, and stole the cheesesteaks he was delivering, police said.

Miller, who was last known to reside on 31st Street near Norris and Venango near 19th, was arrested Thursday on Hunting Park Avenue near Sepviva Street in Nicetown.

White is still wanted by police in the same incident, police said.

FBI Special Agent J.J. Klaver said that tracking down fugitives like Miller is vital because they are likely to strike again.

"It's very important to get guys like this off the street because of the recent history of violent crime in Philadelphia," Klaver said. "These guys who commit crimes don't commit one crime and stop, they are typically repeat offenders."