A man escaped from prison in Peru by drugging his twin brother and leaving him in his place - in a story that's straight out of US TV show Arrested Development.

Alexander Delgado was arrested on Monday after 13 months on the run.

Jeffrey Tambor's character George Bluth does the same to his identical twin in a 2005 episode of the US sitcom.

It's not the first time a TV show - or even just Arrested Development - have been imitated by real life.

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Peruvian police eventually foiled Alexander Delgado's plan by taking fingerprints of his twin Giancarlo.

In Arrested Development, the unlucky character of Oscar Bluth also gets drugged and has his head shaved by his bald twin George, who is in prison.

But his fingers were burnt earlier in the episode which means he can't be identified as an innocent man.

Oscar's hair doesn't grow back because of stress and he stays in prison until the next season.

When nobody believes that he's actually an innocent twin he even sets up a website called imoscar.com.

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