Crime Notes from All Over

On Sundays, we go for a ride in the country to change our view a little and see something different, and now and again we will see a woods that looks like no one has been in there since Native Americans lived here. I always wonder about what goes on down there in a land where snakes and mice and birds and groundhogs and deer and all sorts of flora and fauna live together, but I don't wonder enough to go down there and investigate.

If I did, I might stumble upon stories like this...

There was a Lithuanian guy whom the British police were looking for in connection with a murder some five years ago. He disappeared and was presumed to be dead.

His name was Ricardas Puisys and he was not seen hanging around anywhere since Sept. 15, 2015 when he was working his job at a food company in Chatteris, England.  The article I read does not give details about the murder in question, but they do say that Puisys took it on the lam since 2015 until the Cambridgeshire Constabulary found him in a deep woods 17 miles away in the town of Wisbech on July 1.

(Attention, Maryland housing developers who use British names for the roads in your developments: "Wisbech Ct" and "Chatteris Way" would be much nicer than "Happy Hollow Avenue" or "Morning Dew Lane," just saying.)

They do things differently over there. US Police, having nabbed a suspect, put him or her in handcuffs and have them do the "perp walk" into the court commissioner's office for their arraignment, for display on the 6 O'Clock News.
British police say that, in order “to protect him and put safeguarding measures in place,’’ they waited a while to reveal his whereabouts.

While Puisys was living in that dense undergrowth, he was “very well concealed” after “having not spoken with anyone for some time,” say the police.

“For almost five years Ricardas’ disappearance has been a complete mystery. That was until we received information at the end of June which led us to finding him,” Detective Chief Inspector Rob Hall of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit said in a statement.

“He is safe and we are working very closely with him to ensure he remains safe, but also to ensure he gets the support he needs after having lived through extremely difficult circumstances during the last five or more years.”

If the kind way they treat criminals in England becomes common knowledge over here, maybe more of our crooks will ship out for Worcestershire and pull their capers!