Survivalist in the Adirondacks
cn | 12 January, 2007 19:04Just up there in the Northcountry the police captured a guy who claims to have been living in the woods for the past 20 years and the cops think he's been breaking into seasonal homes and stealing survival gear like sleeping bags while leaving valuables.
From wten.com:
For over a year, Warren County Sheriffs Deputies and State Police have been looking for a man living in camps in the middle of the woods, stealing items here and there from camps in northern Warren County.
"A lot of people seen him and whatnot, but they just weren't able to catch up to him," says Paul Smith, with the Horicon Highway Department.
Until Wednesday, the arrest of 59-year-old Alan Como came on the heels of a Tuesday morning tip from two Horicon snowplow operators who saw something that just did not look right.
"2:30 in the morning, somebody is out on a bicycle and there is two-inches of snow on the road...something is going on," says Mark Younes, with the Horicon Highway Department.
It's an interesting story, but there is a disconcerting aspect to it which is overlooked because the man the authorities caught is believed to be a criminal - that aspect is that it is now grounds for tracking you down and arresting you if you ride your bike late at night in the snow. This in and of itself might seem suspicious, but is not illegal, and did it warrant the following action...
The plow operator followed the tracks in the snow until they went over the snow bank and left the road.
"They sent up some investigators...Mark and I went up to show them where he went over the bank, and they took it from there," says Smith.
After two days of scouring the woods, on Wednesday, deputies found Como's latest campsite.
Now there may be mitigating circumstances which would actually justify such an intensive search, but if there are the media fails to make that connection clearly, and if there are not, is it really justifiable for the police to spend two days searching the woods for someone?
Read more about the story here and here.
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