Marine arrested for faking own disappearance

[unhappycamper]

Marine arrested for faking own disappearance
The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Nov 17, 2008 13:01:27 EST

BOULDER, Colo. — A Marine accused of faking his own disappearance to avoid returning to his unit was arrested Sunday in Port Angeles, Wash., and his father was arrested for investigation of aiding and abetting.

Acting on a tip from the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado, Port Angeles police arrested 23-year-old Lance Hering at the Port Angeles airport.

His father, Lloyd Hering, also was arrested.

Lance Hering, a lance corporal based at Camp Pendleton, Calif., had recently returned from his first combat tour in Iraq as a member of 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, and was visiting his family during a post-deployment leave when he disappeared during the summer of 2006. At the time, Hering’s friend Steve Powers told authorities Hering was hurt in a rock-climbing accident near Boulder and wandered away while Powers went looking for help.

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Powers later admitted the report was a hoax, and investigators found surveillance tape showing Hering getting on a bus in Denver.


Rest of article at: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2008/11/marine_disappear_hoax_111708w/%2e

[uppityperson]

1. Updated article...

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20081118/news/311189997

The U.S. Marine Corps appears to be in no hurry to send an AWOL fugitive with long, blond hair and a scraggly beard from Port Angeles to the brig. Clallam County Superior Court Judge Ken Williams on Monday set a $5,000 bail for Lance Hering, the Colorado Marine who was arrested Sunday by Port Angeles police at William R. Fairchild International Airport on Sunday. Williams ordered that Hering provide proof of a local address prior to posting bail. He also was ordered to remain in Western Washington.

Hering is fighting extradition to Colorado. Because the crimes in Colorado do not pass the threshold of a homicide or major felony, Boulder County will not send its own investigators to Port Angeles, authorities there said.
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The Camera reported Monday night that Hering was on the verge of turning himself over to authorities before his arrest. "When arrested, Lance was on the last leg of his long and lonely journey as a fugitive," Hering's attorney, Alex Garlin, told the newspaper. "He was just days short of his planned voluntary surrender. He knew what he had to do and was in the process of doing it."...(more@link)