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He was picked up here in Canada.
TOBERMORY, Ontario (June 10, 2002 6:12 a.m. EDT) - A man accused of impersonating an Army officer and taking control of rescue efforts after a bridge collapse in Oklahoma was arrested Sunday by Canadian police.
Ontario Provincial Police arrested William Clark, 29, of Tallapoosa, Mo., on fraud and theft charges Sunday as he waited to board a ferry in Tobermory, Canada.
Clark was wanted by the FBI for showing up in Webbers Falls, Okla., within two hours of the Interstate 40 bridge collapse over the Arkansas River, and claiming he was a captain with U.S. Special Forces.
Clark is accused of getting free food, lodging and transportation by impersonating a military officer.
He also is facing charges under the Canada Immigration Act.
He is scheduled to appear in an Owen Sound, Ontario, court Monday. Clark was released from the Central Missouri Correctional Center on Dec. 11 after serving three years for stealing, said Tim Kniest, spokesman for the Missouri Department of Corrections. Clark also served two years of probation in 1999 for passing bad checks, Kniest said.
A barge struck the bridge May 26, sending 10 vehicles into the river and killing 14 people.
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