THE POWER OF TV

Well after one month since the FBI had there press conference in Columbus Georgia to name their top ten addition to the "Most Wanted", something finally happened. When I arrived to the station after my lunch break we got a fax form the Columbus police department around 1:00pm in the afternoon. The fax had gave us a heads up that a big press conference is going to be taking place at 3:00pm at the police station. The newsroom was a buzz as we was speculating that what the outcome of the conference will entailed. It was not your usual "hands on deck" situation but something big was about to go down. Unfortunately I was not called to shoot the press conference but the assignment desk that was ran by my news director that day assigned the task to other photogs as I had to go out with one of my anchor to another story assigned later that day. As a spoiler we found out on the Ledger-Enquirer that they just reoported on the website that they had arrested Columbus Georgia native and killer Michael Jason Registe. We boke in regular programming and went live for the annoucement but our competitor could not due to their station was off-air for about a day. As stated in in the previous post "IF YOU BREAK THE LAW WE WILL MAKE YOU FAMOUS.", Registe was featured on Fox's "America's Most Wanted" and not even a month he was arrested at a guest house shortly after 11 a.m. by St. Maarten police officials in conjunction with the Antilles Director of Public Prosecution and through coordination with the FBI's legal attache in Bridgetown, Barbados. Although I was not at the press conference but I know the family was thankful that they can some what move on with their lives. The media and AMW deserves partial credit in his arrest. Not all news that the media reports are bad news. We can make a difference in helping cases.

Above is the newspaper details arrest of Michael Registe and on right is the FBI wanted flyer.