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Des Moines Man Who His Faked Death & Disappeared Captured

Photo: US Marshals Service Montana District

(Des Moines, IA) -- A Des Moines man who faked his own death and fled the state to avoid a trial on child pornography charges is back in custody. 

 

U.S. Marshals in the Southern District of Iowa, working with the U.S. Marshals Montana Violent Offender Task Force, and U.S. Marshals in the Western District of Washington, on Monday found and arrested 28-year-old Jacob Greer in Spanaway, Washington.

Greer is currently at the Federal Detention Center in Seattle and he will be brought to Des Moines to stand trial.

 

Greer was arrested in 2016 on child porn charges and was released on bond. Investigators say he removed his ankle monitor, left a suicide note, and disappeared.  A federal arrest warrant for Greer was issued that day.    

 

On June 8, 2016, the U.S. Forestry Service located another vehicle associated with Greer in Tuchuck Campground in Flathead, Montana, but Greer was not there. Investigators discovered Greer had purchased the car with a $1,000 loan from a friend and that he had fled Iowa with money, a bow, arrows and a backpack full of survival gear.  

 

Greer was last seen at a Wal-Mart in Kalispell, Montana, June 3, 2016, wearing a camouflage hat. Through additional interviews, investigators learned Greer was a survivalist and had plans to live off the land in remote areas of the upper western states or southern Canada, hiding out in abandoned cabins.

 

“The arrest of Jacob Greer after six years is a testament to the tenacity of Deputy U.S. Marshals and our investigative partners,” said U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Iowa Ted Kamatchus. “Even though the case went cold, they would not quit.”

 


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