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[at-l] Trail Community Commended



Accused Thief Arrested in Georgia
A 33-year-old Rhode Island man who reportedly used the Trail name ?Saved? 
last year has been arrested in rural Georgia on fugitive warrants from Virginia 
as a suspect in a series of residential break-ins and car thefts off the A.T. 
in Wintergreen, National Park Service (NPS) rangers reported today. Procedures 
were being instituted to extradite David Lescoe from Middle, Ga., to 
Wintergreen. Federal law-enforcement agents, with many hikers and Trail-town members 
calling in leads, had been looking for him on and near the Trail since last 
September after two break-ins (including one at the home of an ATC member) were 
reported and a stolen automobile was recovered at the A.T. parking area along 
the James River. ?Although serious crime is a rare occurrence on the Trail, 
it's nice to know that, when a situation like this develops, the Trail community 
will join forces with the law-enforcement community to resolve it,? NPS A.T. 
Ranger Todd Remaley said, asking that anyone with information on any thefts on 
the Trail between June and October and between New York and Georgia call him 
at (717) 258-5771.
January 26, 2005
(from the ATC website)