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Search continues in Maine as officer is charged with lying about taking missing person to hospital
/the person is now missing, again
/ case is strangely similar to that of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearances_of_Terrance_Williams_and_Felipe_Santos
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...fficer-charged-lying-taking-missing-109200418
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WASHBURN, Maine -- A Maine police officer accused of lying about a missing-person case was charged with several crimes, including falsifying a report in which he claimed he had taken the missing man to a hospital, police said.
Washburn Police Sgt. Chandler Cole resigned after being charged with aggravated forgery, tampering with public records or information, falsifying physical evidence, and unsworn falsification, according to court records. He was arrested on March 29.
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The charges, first reported by WAGM-TV, stem from the case of a missing person who appeared to be distressed when seen walking along a road on Jan. 30.
Cole reported that he had picked up Erik Foote and dropped him off at a convenience store, but he told Foote's parents he took him to the hospital.
An investigation concluded Cole altered his report to reflect a hospital drop-off. But there is no hospital record to support the claim.
Foote has yet to be located in a case that has riveted the community of 1,500 people, which has organized another search party to look for him this weekend.
