Amusing little news item....

Mosquitoes help OPP collar suspect hiding in the bush

Jun. 9, 2006. 01:00 AM
ROBERTA AVERY
SPECIAL TO THE STAR


HUNTSVILLE—Swarms of mosquitoes forced a suspect on the lam to surrender to police after spending just 90 minutes in the bush.

"There are hoards of mosquitoes out there," Constable Harry Rawluk of the Ontario Provincial Police in Huntsville said yesterday. "They are thicker than normal this year and (the man) said he just couldn't take it any longer."

OPP officers, who had doused themselves with insect repellent, were using a dog to search for a man alleged to have used a shovel to smash the windows of a car parked near Dwight, north of Huntsville, late Wednesday.

During the search a man came running out of the bush frantically swatting the swarm of mosquitoes buzzing around his head.

"They drove him right into the arms of the police," said Rawluk. "He had a substantial number of bites all over his body." Rawluk accompanied the man back to bail court yesterday morning. He had been released on bail June 6 after being charged with arson after someone set fire to an advertising sign on a highway. Korry Joseph White, 22, of Dwight, is charged with arson and breach of probation. He is to appear in court in Huntsville on July 19.