[Paine in the Neck]

...an army of camped out reporters, fleets of news trucks, cameras in the street, news choppers etc

And they just happened on the scene? Come on. They were all given a heads up to be there when the guy was carted off.

[dragnet2]

Wrong again...The army of news media was there in the morning, long before midnight when the local government whisked him away to have a little talk with the feds.