Bad boys, bad boys. Whatcha gonna do?
Who needs a police blotter page when you can put your crooks on page one and help arrest them at the same time?
For the second time in three months, police have made an arrest based on a page one photo in a local paper.
This time, it was the Union Leader in Manchester, N.H.
Police in Concord, N.H., had issued an arrest warrant for Vern Potter two months ago but had been unable to locate him.
As the Associated Press reports today:
Then a police lieutenant happened to spot a Page One photo of Potter in Tuesday’s (today’s) New Hampshire Union Leader, shoveling snow off the roof of Andover Elementary School. The photo accompanied a story with the headline “Up on the roof; shoveling reaches new levels.”
Police learned that the 31-year-old Potter, who works for a roofing company, was at the school again Tuesday and arranged to arrest him on an insurance fraud charge.
Interestingly, the Union Leader’s account is the AP story. Find it here. Perhaps they’ll have a locally-written one available Wednesday.
A very similar incident occured in Lewiston, Idaho, in December. Read our post about that one here.
Here’s the entire page, which was posted this morning at The Newseum:
