Police wait downstream for suspect trying to swim to freedom
LAKE LURE, N. C. (AP) A wanted Tiki bar cook tried to flee authorities by swimming away in a North Carolina river, but was caught by officers waiting downstream. A Lake Lure Police statement says 38-year-old Jesse Lee Boyd was wanted by the U. S. Marshals Service on warrants accusing him of forgery or counterfeiting in Iowa. Investigators said they made a plan over the weekend to arrest him at the management office of the Geneva Riverside Tiki Bar. But they say Boyd was warned as he walked to...
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