When they arrived, a friend who was accompanying Longenecker that day was arrested, but the life-long Grateful Dead fan fled into the heavy underbrush of the preserve. The game commissioner who discovered Longenecker's plants had been driving a bulldozer, and one police officer, identified as Mark Weiss, reportedly got on the heavy machinery in an attempt to get through the landscape. Next, Cops said they needed to use a bulldozer because "there's no way that you could walk through that stuff," the Washington Post reported. They say they want police to be held accountable for their "reckless" decision to use a bulldozer while trying to find Longenecker. They said they believe if Longenecker had been arrested, charged and convicted, his sentence would most likely have been probation.

Source: Fox News March 20, 2019 14:48 UTC