Rich Civic Times
GARDEN CITY, Utah. July 12, 2018. "A Mississippi man being hunted in Utah by a US Marshals fugitive task force was apprehended Thursday evening at a campground east of Bear Lake.
Charles Eugene Bowman, 61, was arrested without incident at the Rainbow Cove Campground on the east side of Bear Lake in Rich County, Utah according to Rich County authorities.
A Utah Department of Natural Resources officer stumbled across the vehicle in which Bowman was known to be traveling. The officer immediately called the US Marshals office in Salt Lake, said Matthew Harris, US Marshal for Utah.
Harris said the fugitive task force, the Marshals Service Violent Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team immediately traveled to the area as DNR officers kept watch over the suspect.
Harris said Bowman appeared to be readying a tent for a night of camping when the operation to apprehend him commenced." Matt Ward, Editor Sun Advocate
Kathie Anderson, Reporter Rich Civic Times, said that local law enforcement people were told to turn off sirens and lights and approach quietly. At that time also they went off the radio in case the suspect was listening in.
The Rich County Sheriff’s Office posted on their Facebook page that Bowman’s vehicle was spotted in the Rainbow Cove Campground, on the east side of the lake. The white Nissan Maxima was located Thursday afternoon.
US Marshals were notified and arrived with their strike-force later that night. They arrested Bowman without any confrontation.
Rich County Sheriff’s deputies posted a photo of Bowman, sitting inside an ambulance after the arrest. Harris said multiple weapons were found inside the suspect’s tent and vehicle.
Law enforcement and DNR officers quickly and silently evacuated nearby campers, as a precaution before Bowman’s arrest.
Bowman had been in Utah since at least July 6 when he was spotted camping some six miles outside Vernal.
According to the Sun Advocate, Harris revealed previously unreleased information that Bowman had once lived in Utah and that his family owns property in the state.
Bowman was first spotted by law enforcement traveling out west in Evanston, Wyoming on June 30.
“He lived in Utah for some time. His family has property here in Utah. His family had a cabin in Kamas,” Harris said. “He came down from Evanston, we think to Vernal. Went to a Walmart outside of Vernal and bought a bunch of stuff in Vernal. Then he went to his cabin in Kamas and we kept missing him.”
Bowman was also spotted in the Salt Lake area in the days leading up to his arrest.
Social media was used to post his picture and color and make of his car. Security cameras were searched and tips came in from stores in Salt Lake. He may have been in Rich County for two days.
Bowman is being held pending extradition to Mississippi where he is expected to face a murder charge related to the death of his wife, Kathleen Bowman.
Pearl River County Deputy Coroner Albert Lee told the Sun Herald newspapers in Mississippi that the remains found in the Bowman home were positively identified by a forensic anthropologist and forensic odonatologist with the Mississippi Forensics Laboratory.
Bowman may have mutilated his wife’s body in some fashion that made identification difficult. The Sun Herald reports the cause of his wife’s death remains under investigation.
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