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Chapter 11 – County Mountie

Chapter 11 – County MountieThursday, May 29th, 2014

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I hit the ground running Thursday morning but I got nowhere fast. I set a couple of deputies up on a tail of Manuel Perez however the county had such limited resources for that sort of thing that I didn’t have a lot of hope of catching him at anything. Meanwhile, I was still hitting brick walls trying to get a bead on Ryan McClarnan. The guy was so far off grid, no one knew where to find him. Even the BMV was a total bust. Apparently, he doesn’t drive and he doesn’t have any sort of state issued ID.

My best hope was to physically root him out. I figured I’d try the old fashioned way first. I hopped in my county SUV and headed south along the Muskingum River. I crossed the river on the Route 32 bridge at Duncan Falls and, just