A Des Moines survivalist who allegedly faked his personal dying and fled the state to keep away from trial on alleged youngster pornography expenses is again in custody, based on an announcement from the US Marshals within the Southern District of Iowa.
US Marshals discovered and arrested 28-year-old Jacob Greer in Spanaway, Washington, on Monday. He had been on the run since 2016, authorities stated.
“The arrest of Jacob Greer after six years is a testomony to the tenacity of Deputy US Marshals and our investigative companions,” Ted Kamatchus, US Marshal for the Southern District of Iowa, stated within the Tuesday assertion.
“Regardless that the case went chilly, they'd not give up,” Kamatchus stated.
Greer is at the moment on the Federal Detention Middle in Seattle and will probably be transported to Des Moines to face trial, accoring to the assertion. He will probably be assigned counsel when he returns to Iowa, the Iowa public defender’s workplace stated.
Greer was initially arrested in April 2016 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers on expenses of alleged receipt and possession of kid pornography. He was launched on bond the subsequent day below pretrial supervision with an ankle monitor. He was dwelling along with his grandmother in Des Moines on the time.
On Could 31, 2016, Greer’s probation officer was alerted that Greer’s ankle monitor had been eliminated, leading to a multiagency search effort, the US Marshals assertion stated.
Authorities discovered Greer’s automotive with a suicide notice inside, however searchers by no means discovered his physique and a federal arrest warrant for Greer was issued. Investigators later found one other automobile related to Greer at a campground in Flathead, Montana, which he had bought with a $1,000 mortgage from a pal, the assertion stated.
The US Marshals Service stated Greer was final seen at a Walmart in Kalispell, Montana, in June 2016, sporting a camouflage hat.
Greer had allegedly fled Iowa with cash, a bow, arrows and a backpack filled with survival gear and “had plans to reside off the land in distant areas of the higher western states or southern Canada, hiding out in deserted cabins,” the assertion stated.
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