Pat Beaujot of Saskatchewan Assisted RCMP to Find Two Abducted Boys

Alert farmer found van being sought in boys' abduction case
Last Updated: Wednesday, August 2, 2006 10:27 AM CT CBC News

A Saskatchewan farmer who helped locate fugitive child molester Peter Whitmore and two boys is downplaying suggestions that he is a hero.
Pat Beaujot was on his way home for lunch on Tuesday when he decided to check out an unoccupied farm in Kipling, less than two kilometres from his own farm.

(CBC)
Police had asked residents to check vacant properties in the area following the disappearance Sunday of Zachary Miller, 10, from the nearby community of Whitewood.
Investigators had named Whitmore, a pedophile with a string of convictions for assaults against children, as the prime suspect in Zachary's disappearance. Whitmore was believed to be travelling with another missing youth, 14-year-old Jordan Bruyere.
Beaujot said he found tire marks in the long grass at the farm, and spotted a van sought by police in a garage.

He then went home to phone police, who arrived within about 15 minutes.
Shortly after police arrived at the scene, Zachary was spotted coming out some bushes near the farmhouse.
"He seemed OK," Beaujot said. "He wasn't running frantically or screaming."
Police then began 10 hours of negotiations at the farmhouse before Whitmore surrendered late Tuesday night.
Police said Jordan walked out of the house first, followed by Whitmore a few minutes later.
Beaujot was modest about his role in Whitmore's arrest.
"There were hundreds of people in the area wanting to help in any way they could," he told CBC News on Wednesday morning.

"There were many, many other people doing the same thing I did, looking in abandoned buildings and checking areas for anything suspicious.
"I just happened be the person who came upon the right yard."
Whitmore, 35, was taken into custody and charged with one count of abduction.

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