Topic: Man spends six years living in woods to evade CP conviction.
Anonymous A started this discussion 3 years ago #103,260
Finally caughtGreer’s case began in April 2016.
He was arrested that month — almost two years after law enforcement agents said he knowingly received files of child pornography between June 2013 and November 2014. A grand jury in Iowa also charged him with possessing a computer with sexually explicit depictions of minors, including some under the age of 12, court records show.
One day after his arrest, Greer was released after promising to appear in court as required. But the September 2016 trial was indefinitely postponed after Greer vanished in May — leaving behind a fake suicide note in his car, according to authorities. According to the agency, Greer was a survivalist on the run, fleeing Iowa with “money, a bow, arrows and a backpack full of survival gear.” His plan, investigators discovered, was to “live off the land in remote areas of the upper western states or southern Canada, hiding out in abandoned cabins,” the U.S. Marshals Service said in a news release.
“The arrest of Jacob Greer after six years is a testament to the tenacity of Deputy U.S. Marshals and our investigative partners,” U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Iowa Ted Kamatchus said in a news release. “Even though the case went cold, they would not quit.”