about the unusual circumstances. reporter: initial arrest came almost a year ago. christopher shwety was accused of having child pornography of toddlers on his computer. it doesn t seem like his character and he claims the stuff was put on his computer he didn t know about. reporter: then time passed and his case kept getting delayed. his father believes that is the trigger for what happened next. he believes he created a facebook profile under the name of the police officer who arrested him and used it to distribute child pornography. he had an ax to grind. reporter: a detective in michigan discovered it. realized something wasn t right. when he made a couple of phone calls it became clear that it was a hoax and that the facebook profile was fictitious. reporter: swuette was arrested at his home. we hope the truth prevails. if he has done the things he allegedly done, he has to answer to that. we tried to raise him to do the right thing, but he has some menta
force looking for stolen cars and the crook. he says thieves will steal a cart, commit burglary and then abandon the car. this preschool has seen its share of abandon cars in its parking lot. you have a big lot. why not dump it here. reporter: the preschool added a chain and padlock on the driveway to stop the problem. police say the ignition switches in those cars are easy to rig. i deliver pizzas. luckily my grandma was able to let me borrow her car. i m lucky to have the car back. reporter: and now thanks to an alert patrol officer who ran the honda plate, michael has his car back. and this county task force, that s all they do, go out looking for stolen cars and looking from the crooks that stole those cars. but today s arrest was a result of good old-fashioned police work. it is a big spike in crime. some more details. in three days, 90 cars were stolen. 43 of those cars were recovered. some catholics in san francisco are taking on the teachings of the church
tonight lester holt. good evening. it just keeps coming. winter s parade of misery from snow bound new englanders at their wit s end to snow and ice in the normally mild south. and now the next shoe, or should we say snowshoe to drop. the rush of arctic cold sweeping from the other side of the north pole through the great lakes. tonight, places like chicago and milwaukee are already in the single digits. and the northeast and south won t be far behind with temperatures 25 to 35 degrees below average tomorrow. in so many places life as people know it is frozen in time. paralyzed transportation it s knocked out power and put a lot of people in some very real danger. nbc s tom costello is on it for us tonight. reporter: from a frozen niagra falls and lake erie in the north to snow in the south, the eastern third of the country is locked in the deep freeze with even colder temps on the way. in eastport maine they ve had a record of 109 inches of snow in just 23 days. it s p
park. rob fladeboe kron 4 news pam: the family of a missing antioch motorcyclists is acting volunteer boaters for help in his search near antique fabric today. 26 year-old dylan rath was confirmed by friends and family to be the man who went over the ante on rich after his motorcycle collided with a car on sunday afternoon. he is presumed dead after falling more than 100 ft. into the san walking river. the california highway patrol suspended the search for him on tuesday as the choppy waters of the river had the search officials said early there is no organized search effort for the body of dylan rath but any marine units in area will use their equipment and look for the motorcyclist. pam: today police and attacked police say after an initial investigation there was no intent it attempted kidnapping of an antioch high school student the student told authorities that a stranger approached our yes third after a morning she told police that when she got into more on car and
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