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Fake suicide note will lead to mischief charge
{ST..JOHNS (CBC) - A western Newfoundland man who appears to have faked his own death will face a charge of public mischief, the RCMP said Monday.
The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary arrested former Boyd's Cove resident Bruce Ives Leyte, 57, in St. John's early Sunday. He was wanted on a fraud warrant.
Const. Duncan Chisholm, who works with the RCMP detachment in Corner Brook, said Monday that police divers and others leapt into action on Aug. 18, 2006, when a suicide note was found inside an abandoned truck near the Humber River.
"It would lead you to believe that he had actually entered the river," Chisholm told CBC News, describing the note. "The man had a lot of stress in his life."
Leyte's family, Chisholm added, believed that he was dead.
Leyte was arrested early Sunday at a home in the Cowan Heights neighbourhood of St. John's. He is scheduled to be transported on Tuesday to Corner Brook, where he will appear in provincial court.
In an interview, Chisholm said it was unfair that RCMP divers, a search-and-rescue team and others looked desperately for the body they assumed was in the Humber River, outside Corner Brook.
"They put their lives in peril. There's a lot of current, very strong currents in the river ... the divers had to be tied to cords," he said.
"Visibility is only, maybe, five or six inches (13 to 15 centimetres) at that depth. There's a lot of peril, you know, for members who go and look for someone who's not even missing."
Soon after the suicide note was found, though, police became suspicious of the case.
"From the onset, Mr. Leyte had a telephone, a cellphone, that was actually used the next day after his disappearance," he said.
"It basically led us to believe that the cellphone had been used in the Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and placed him going across the Gulf [of St. Lawrence]," he said.
Chisholm added that a Marine Atlantic ferry passenger reported having seen Leyte aboard.
In June 2006, Leyte was found guilty of tax evasion and ordered to pay a fine of about $60,000. Court records show that Leyte, who had worked as a baker, declared bankruptcy in 2001, amid debts in excess of $79,000. He had also declared bankruptcy in June 1992, records show.
There were reported sightings of Leyte in the past two years. Police in British Columbia had thought he might have been living in the province under an assumed name.
In addition to face an outstanding tax fraud charge, Chisholm said Leyte will face a mischief charge arising from the 2006 incident.
"By doing that and leading us to believe he had in fact committed suicide, it causes a lot of strain on valuable resources of the police which could have been used for better usage," Chisholm said.} http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/081124/canada/stjohns_suicide_arrest
