Posted on 04/20/2017 2:38:13 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Found! Amber Alert teacher, 50, arrested and his ex-student, 15, found safe near a remote northern California commune five weeks after pair vanished from Tennessee
Former Tennessee teacher Tad Cummins was arrested this morning near a remote commune in northern California and 15-year-old Elizabeth Thomas whom he was alleged to have kidnapped was found unharmed nearly 2,500 miles from home after an intense five-week search.
At a press conference held Thursday afternoon, TBI spokesperson Josh DeVine recounted how a tip from a resident led to Cummins' capture and Thomas' recovery.
According to the official, at around 11pm on Wednesday, TBI got a call from a man saying he may have encountered the wanted pair and that the two of them were believed to have taken up residence in Cecilville, California - a very isolated and rural area near the Oregon border - within the last week and a half.
TBI then contacted the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office and learned that investigators there had received the same tip from the same person who contacted the Tennessee agency.
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Can't find his mugshot as of yet, FReepers in California can you help me out please?
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Does anyone really believe she was kidnapped?
GREAT news! HOORAY tipster.
The pitcher becomes the catcher.
Yes I do. Have followed this from the beginning. Want to read about it just put in keyword “Elizabeththomas”. This child had/has problems and was perfect target/victim.
Someone please find this dude’s mugshot as I so want to have gloatfeast over it...
“news said they found both of them in a hippie commune...”
Why I posted this story, has pictures of it. Out in middle of nowhere!
No, but they will charge him with it because she was a minor.
No doubt he’s a perv, along the lines of Jeffries, et al
Legally, I would agree she was kidnapped. But in real life, she went along willingly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bear_Ranch
This guy must have been totally delusional. How did he imagine this would end up?
Point well taken
The final line of that Wiki entry refers to the capture of this teacher/kidnapper at the commune.
Maybe he’ll get a nice boyfriend in jail.
The Walmart video looks like she was a willing traveler, and not abducted.
I thought they would have gone to Costa Rica, but OTOH because she was 15, it made her radioactive to anyone who would consider transporting them.
It’s a little creepy that he ran off with a 15 year old. The old joke is to trade in the forty year old for a couple of twenty’s, but fifteen will get you twenty years.
That is seriously remote country up there. It’s Humboldt County, so they’ll be taken to Eureka, CA.
Local paper:
http://www.times-standard.com/
The government agent that keeps an eye on the commune decided he (or she) could call it in without blowing cover.
Sort of like the compound where Tim McVey hung out before OKC - it had both a US agent and a German agent on premises.
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