I also notice the girl that was sitting in the car in front of the defendant’s house had walked around the corner and was watching what we were doing. As the team surrounds the house again, I drove all the way around the block once more. I now see the same dark colored Honda that was parked in front of the house driving toward me. I see guy with the red shirt that I had just talked to, sitting in the passenger seat. Now I am positive that he is connected to the house, I just have to figure out why he is lying or what is he hiding.

I make contact with him again and during conversation we go back and forth about him coming out of the defendant’s house. He continues to deny the fact that he came out of the house but the more we talk in circles the more it is clear, I know, he ran from the house. Until he finally admits to answering the phone (inside the house) pretending he was the defendant and then follows it up with “but I didn’t come out of that house”.

Now the questions: Mr. Red shirt wasn’t our defendant and he didn’t have warrants, so why did he run and where is our defendant?

Back at the house we attempted to make contact with whoever was still in the house. We knew no one had left the residence and the dog that was in the front yard was now barking at us through the front window. Law Enforcement stated that the defendant’s father was on searchable probation and that they would do a probation search on the residence if no one would come to the door. While they stayed in the background we would make entry and search the house for our defendant.

I also notice the girl that was sitting in the car in front of the defendant’s house had walked around the corner and was watching what we were doing. As the team surrounds the house again, I drove all the way around the block once more. I now see the same dark colored Honda that was parked in front of the house driving toward me. I see guy with the red shirt that I had just talked to, sitting in the passenger seat. Now I am positive that he is connected to the house, I just have to figure out why he is lying or what is he hiding.

I make contact with him again and during conversation we go back and forth about him coming out of the defendant’s house. He continues to deny the fact that he came out of the house but the more we talk in circles the more it is clear, I know, he ran from the house. Until he finally admits to answering the phone (inside the house) pretending he was the defendant and then follows it up with “but I didn’t come out of that house”.

Now the questions: Mr. Red shirt wasn’t our defendant and he didn’t have warrants, so why did he run and where is our defendant?

Back at the house we attempted to make contact with whoever was still in the house. We knew no one had left the residence and the dog that was in the front yard was now barking at us through the front window. Law Enforcement stated that the defendant’s father was on searchable probation and that they would do a probation search on the residence if no one would come to the door. While they stayed in the background we would make entry and search the house for our defendant.

We searched and searched and searched knowing that something was not right:

1. The defendant had either answered the phone or had the guy in the red shirt answer it.
2. Why did the guy in the red shirt run….to lead us off from the house or give the defendant time to hide.
3. Was the defendant also running and they went in two different directions causing us to focus on the wrong one.

With that in mind numerous things are flowing through your head while you are searching:

1. Is the defendant hiding in a really good place because he has had time to hide now?
2. Is the defendant armed and prepared for a violent confrontation because he does not want to go back to jail?
3. And since you aren’t finding him is he hiding in someplace that you have missed?

I have found people in closets under piles of clothes, behind water heaters, in wall cut outs behind dressers, under kitchen sinks, attics and places where I didn’t think a human body could fit. So you have to look everywhere and be sure you don’t miss any place. A lot of these places aren’t the tidiest and there are lots of places to hide. When you come up empty the question remains did you miss that one place.

After the capture the holes in the story are filled and questions answered, I have to admit they were pretty good. The house had surveillance equipment and after the phone call they were alerted. Watching us pull up the defendant was able to get out the back door and jump into the back yard of the residence of the guy with the red shirt, eventually hiding in his house. As we surround the house, the red shirt guy takes off in the other direction leading us away from the house. Meanwhile the father/cosigner locks the doors and stays inside just hoping we will go away.