A missing kayaker from Louisiana has been arrested for faking his own death by drowning in an apparent bid to dodge rape charges, according to the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Melvin Phillip Emde, 41, was arrested by authorities in Georgia over a month after his son, Seth, allegedly reported him missing.

Emde’s son allegedly told police his father fell out of a kayak and drowned while on the Mississippi River in Hahnville, Louisiana, according to the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office.

After he was reported missing, detectives learned that Emde had pending charges of indecent liberties with a child and statutory rape of a child by an adult in North Carolina. He was due in court just one day after being reported missing, authorities said.

  • @flossdaily
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    1 year ago

    They caught him only because he was riding a motorcycle without a license plate.

    Hence the rule, “only break one law at a time.”

    • mommykink
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      31 year ago

      Didn’t a similar thing happen to the OKC Bomber?

      • @ShunkW
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        11 year ago

        Yeah he had no plate on his car.

    • @Wrench
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      21 year ago

      Well, if he had his license on him, his warrant would have showed up anyway, so…

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        If the motorbike had a license plate he probably wouldn’t have been pulled over in the first place

  • @JustAManOnAToilet
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    151 year ago

    “indecent liberties” is certainly one way to word that in your code of laws.

      • @mack7400
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        21 year ago

        Nor “fucking up a child’s life just to get some jollies”.