Maine "hermit" arrested, accused of hundreds of food thefts

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Maine "hermit" arrested, accused of hundreds of food thefts

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/maine-hermit-arrested-accused-hundreds-food-thefts-144605007.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/X8d9eI9XJYtZumxOsp4kdg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-04-10T195808Z_2_CBRE93916SA00_RTROPTP_2_USA-MAINE-HERMIT.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Kennebec County Jail booking photo of Christopher Knight" align="left" title="Kennebec County Jail booking photo of Christopher Knight" border="0" /></a>By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A Maine man who walked into the woods shortly after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident and lived as a hermit for almost three decades, supporting himself by stealing from nearby camps, was arrested last week, police said on Tuesday. Christopher Knight, 47, had lived nearly without human contact in a tent near a pond outside of Rome, Maine, about 20 miles north of the state capital Augusta, state police said. They arrested him early on Thursday morning at the Pine Tree Camp, where he was stealing food, police said. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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