Kayaking who was declared dead was discovered alive and now faces serious charges. ChatGPT helped us summarize this story:
On August 7, Melvin Amada's son, 41, contacted the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office in Louisiana and reported his father missing. He told police that the father was kayaking on the Mississippi River, not far from New Orleans, when his kayak overturned and he drowned. But Sheriff Greg Champaign expressed skepticism of the son's report.
The reason for the sheriff's skeptical attitude toward the young Amda's report was that on that very day, Amda Sr. was scheduled to appear in court in Brunswick County, North Carolina, on the southeast coast of the United States, where he was charged with indecent contact with a minor and statutory rape of a child. Champaign suspected that Amadé faked his death to evade these serious charges.
"We immediately became very suspicious that this might have been a fraudulent drowning and death, designed to allow Mr. Amadé to escape the charges in Brunswick. However, we could not reveal our suspicions publicly, for fear that he would understand (that we had surpassed him)."
The deception went down the drain when investigators traced Amade's tracks. Amadé was wearing an ankle handcuff as a condition of his release on bail. The officers used the surveillance device, which took them to Walmart in Butte, Louisiana, where Amada purchased two prepaid phones. He tried to use them sparingly, operating them one at a time for a short time.
After this discovery, officers were able to trace Amada's phones as far as Oklahoma, his home state, until he stopped using them, leaving investigators without a lead. Last Sunday, a patrol officer in Tippett County, Georgia, spotted a motorcycle without a license plate. He signaled the driver to stop, but the latter tried to evade until he crashed. After a short foot chase, the man was caught and gave a false name. However, after taking his fingerprint, Georgia authorities identified him as an estimate. Now the fugitive criminal faces the legal consequences of his actions in North Carolina.
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