Murder Suspect Arrested

CANADA - A manhunt involving three police forces ended last night in Portage du Fort, Que., as Ontario Provincial Police arrested Jesse Norman Imeson, 22, the suspect in three Ontario murders.
Police caught up with Mr. Imeson after a 911 call from a homeowner in Portage du Fort, a small town across the Ottawa River from Renfrew, Ont., about 100 kilometres northwest of Ottawa.
"He had broken into a home and was surprised by the owner," said Surete du Quebec Sergeant Michel Brunet.
Mr. Imeson fled the house. The homeowner called police and gave chase. Members of the OPP and the Surete du Quebec surrounded the woods around the home. Mr. Imeson gave himself up to members of the OPP at about 9 p.m. He was carrying two rifles.
Mr. Imeson had been tracked to Quebec because of several break-ins over the weekend that police suspect he perpetrated.
He is expected to be charged with three counts of murder, as well as theft and breaking and entering.
Earlier yesterday, the search for Mr. Imeson had moved to the Ottawa Valley after a stolen pickup truck he was believed to be driving was found in a wooded area west of Renfrew.
Windsor police and the OPP then asked the Surete du Quebec for help in finding Mr. Imeson.
The SQ had said yesterday that it believed he might have crossed into Quebec and was hiding out in the Pontiac area.
"He is extremely dangerous; don't try to confront him," Sgt. Brunet warned at the time.
The manhunt began on July 19, when Windsor bartender Carlos Rivera was found strangled to death in Mr. Imeson's apartment.
Four days later, elderly couple Bill and Helene Regier were found shot to death in their farmhouse near Mount Carmel, Ont., about 50 kilometres northwest of London.
Police began searching closer to Ottawa on Monday night after the grey GMC Sierra pickup belonging to the Regiers was found in Whitewater Township.
As tactical officers armed with semi-automatic rifles guarded the scene yesterday, forensic identification officers examined the truck.
At two neighbouring properties, members of the OPP emergency response team and K-9 officers set up a command post for a ground search, as an OPP plane scanned the area from above.
The site where the truck was found, only a few kilometres from the Chenaux Bridge, prompted police to canvass homes in Shawville, on the Quebec side of the Ottawa River.
Kathy Regier, who lives about 15 kilometres from where the truck was found, said the discovery was a hot topic among her neighbours in Beachburg, Ont.
"It's a shock to have something like that around here, because it is generally a quiet community," said Ms. Regier, who is a distant relative of the slain couple.
It was also learned yesterday that, hours before allegedly strangling Mr. Rivera, who tended bar at a gay night club, Mr. Imeson showed up there looking for a job as a stripper.
Eddie An, who runs The Tap, said Mr. Imeson came to the bar July 17 wanting to dance.
"He was filling out an application form, but he didn't have his ID, so we couldn't finish it," Mr. An said. "He said he forgot it at home and would come back the next day. He stayed and had a few drinks, just as a patron."
Mr. An said Mr. Imeson didn't get a dancing job the night he came to The Tap, but he did jump on stage to dance around the pole "for a few minutes."
Mr. An didn't see the performance, but said Mr. Imeson didn't take his clothes off and wasn't paid.
"He wasn't working as a dancer," he said. "We have amateurs go on stage from time to time."
Nick Cesljar, who took Mr. Imeson to The Tap that night, said the man thought he could make a lot of money stripping at The Tap.
"I tried to advise him against doing that," said Mr. Cesljar, who had partied with Imeson over the past couple of months. "He was just looking at the money, I guess. He got the idea he can get more money dancing for guys rather than dancing for girls, because guys, being perverts, they'll pay more. That's how it began."
from The National Post