04-29-2011, 03:52 AM
this sounds like a more credible/accurate report.
Conway Daily Sun
CONWAY — The two men who reported finding one of Krista Dittmeyer’s flip-flops in the woods around Cranmore called police and requested an officer to meet them at the base of the mountain, even though it led to one of them getting arrested.
Police have not commented whether the report helped them locate Dittmeyer’s body, but nine hours later she was found in a pond north of the ski lodge.
One of the men, 28-year-old Ricky Acker, has a long history of run-ins with police, from burglary to domestic violence. His brother, Kyle Acker, is the father of Dittmeyer’s 14-month-old daughter.
The other man, Corey Poland, 25, of Portland, has no local criminal history beyond his arrest for willful concealment early Wednesday morning.
Willful concealment is the charge assigned for shoplifting.
Poland placed a call to Conway police just before midnight on Tuesday, from Acker’s cell phone. He told police he and Acker had been searching around Cranmore for Dittmeyer when they found a Guess flip-flop her roommate said Dittmeyer had been wearing the day she disappeared.
An officer met them at the fitness center, where Poland was placed under arrest for the outstanding warrant. He was released on $1,000 personal recognisance bail, with one of his bail conditions being that he stays away from the L.L. Bean store.
“We are cooperating with police,” Ricky Acker said on Thursday. “We absolutely called them.” He directed all other questions to the Conway Police Department, which did not respond to calls for comment.
According to the police log the two men told police they were friends of Dittmeyer’s, and they came to look for her. They said they were looking for a fort someone built in the woods when they found the flip-flop. They left the flip-flop where they found it.
Acker's history of arrests dating back to 1999. He served time in New Hampshire prison after pleading guilty to three counts of burglary in 2001, and has been arrested a number of times since for charges including receiving stolen property, simple assault, criminal mischief, criminal trespassing and domestic violence charges.
A version of this story that appeared Thursday did not include that it was the two men themselves who alerted police to their presence at Cranmore Tuesday night.
Conway Daily Sun
CONWAY — The two men who reported finding one of Krista Dittmeyer’s flip-flops in the woods around Cranmore called police and requested an officer to meet them at the base of the mountain, even though it led to one of them getting arrested.
Police have not commented whether the report helped them locate Dittmeyer’s body, but nine hours later she was found in a pond north of the ski lodge.
One of the men, 28-year-old Ricky Acker, has a long history of run-ins with police, from burglary to domestic violence. His brother, Kyle Acker, is the father of Dittmeyer’s 14-month-old daughter.
The other man, Corey Poland, 25, of Portland, has no local criminal history beyond his arrest for willful concealment early Wednesday morning.
Willful concealment is the charge assigned for shoplifting.
Poland placed a call to Conway police just before midnight on Tuesday, from Acker’s cell phone. He told police he and Acker had been searching around Cranmore for Dittmeyer when they found a Guess flip-flop her roommate said Dittmeyer had been wearing the day she disappeared.
An officer met them at the fitness center, where Poland was placed under arrest for the outstanding warrant. He was released on $1,000 personal recognisance bail, with one of his bail conditions being that he stays away from the L.L. Bean store.
“We are cooperating with police,” Ricky Acker said on Thursday. “We absolutely called them.” He directed all other questions to the Conway Police Department, which did not respond to calls for comment.
According to the police log the two men told police they were friends of Dittmeyer’s, and they came to look for her. They said they were looking for a fort someone built in the woods when they found the flip-flop. They left the flip-flop where they found it.
Acker's history of arrests dating back to 1999. He served time in New Hampshire prison after pleading guilty to three counts of burglary in 2001, and has been arrested a number of times since for charges including receiving stolen property, simple assault, criminal mischief, criminal trespassing and domestic violence charges.
A version of this story that appeared Thursday did not include that it was the two men themselves who alerted police to their presence at Cranmore Tuesday night.