Local, federal officials go on manhunt in Jupiter Island
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 by Ana X. Ceron
Matt Fritchie, with the Martin County Sheriff's Office K-9 Unit, follows his dog, Bella, while looking for a suspected illegal immigrant at the Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge on Jupiter Island on Tuesday. Photo by Sarah Grile.
JUPITER ISLAND — Martin County Sheriff’s deputies, Jupiter Island police and federal agents scoured parts of the Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge looking for a man running from authorities.
At about 11:45 a.m., sheriff’s deputies and police responded to the north end of Beach Road where workers doing mosquito control reported seeing a suspicious man in the area, officials said. The witnesses reported to Jupiter Island Public Safety that when they approached the man on an all-terrain vehicle, he fled, according to sheriff’s office spokeswoman Rhonda Irons.
Initially, it was believed the man might have been a migrant crossing the ocean to get to U.S. soil, so crews from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection also arrived to the scene.
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