The cabin is close to a commune called Black Bear Ranch but it's not part of the commune, said the cabin's owner, Monk O'Hare. The TBI earlier had said the two were found in a commune, but later backed off that description. They confirmed through the VIN number that it belonged to Cummins. Siskiyou County deputies searched the area and found a silver Nissan Rogue parked outside the cabin, TBI spokesman Josh DeVine said. The caller said Cummins had taken up residence in Cecilville, about two hours from the nearest police station. The break came when someone encountered Cummins in Siskiyou County, more than 2,000 miles from Culleoka, and called the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation tip line. Surveillance video showed the pair at a Walmart in Oklahoma City on March 15. Cummins had been suspended after a student reported seeing them kissing in a classroom. The pair disappeared as a police investigation into their relationship was heating up. NEWS ALERT: Tad Cummins is under arrest and Elizabeth Thomas has been safely recovered in Northern California.
"Now begins another hard chapter, but for now, we celebrate." "There aren't words in the English language to describe the level of relief and elation experienced by the Thomas family," said Jason Whatley, attorney for the family. Cummins face federal and state charges stemming from her disappearance.īut the search for answers is far from over. The arrest ends a nationwide manhunt that began on March 13, when Cummins fled with Elizabeth from their small town of Culleoka, Tennessee. The cabin's caretaker alerted law enforcement to their presence and helped them hatch a plan to draw Cummins from the residence unarmed and without Thomas, the cabin's owner told CNN. The pair spent one night in the cabin before the arrest, but they may have been in the area for about a week, Gilley said. Mike Gilley.Įlizabeth Thomas was found safe in a remote cabin in Cecilville, northwest of Redding.
"I'm glad this is over," 50-year-old Tad Cummins said after his arrest, according to Siskiyou County sheriff's Sgt. "You've got to do something to motivate people to be more vigilant about trying to find this young girl, because this is not going to end well if we don't get her home, and get her home soon," he said.(CNN) - After five weeks on the run, a Tennessee teacher who kidnapped and fled with his 15-year-old student was arrested Thursday deep in the mountains of northern California, authorities said. Prior to being a teacher he was a respiratory therapist. Meanwhile, a former coworker of Cummins is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.Ĭhandler Anderson, a nurse practitioner in Columbia, Tennessee, first met Cummins in 1998. NEW PICTURE: Here's Tad Cummins and Elizabeth Thomas at school in January, days before his alleged inappropriate contact with her. "'I saw you standing next to you backpack this morning' and makes a reference to a body part of hers and how nice that looked," said Marcus Alright with the Maury County Sheriff's Department. The lead investigator on the case shared one of the emails with WAAY. "If you read them you would immediately recognize you are reading messages between two people who have a romantic interest in each other," Cooper said. Nvestigators said the pair wrote inappropriate messages to each other, but Cooper declined to elaborate. "The other person would log in, read the message and then delete it and then write another message that was saved as a draft." "They would write the message and let it save as a draft," Maury County District Attorney Brent Cooper explained to ABC affiliate WAAY in Huntsville, Alabama. Thomas and Cummins wrote emails to each other but did not send them - instead they would save the email in the drafts folder of Cummins' school email account, the Maury County District Attorney and the Sheriff's Office revealed Friday. (ABC NewsOne) - As law enforcement officers across the country continue to hunt for Tennessee teen Elizabeth Thomas and her former teacher Tad Cummins - the 50-year-old man who allegedly kidnapped the 15-year-old - investigators have shed light on their relationship, revealing that emails between the pair have uncovered a "romantic interest in each other."
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