The Felon File

        Episode -7 The Ghost Town incident of 1992 

In this shades of blue story for Five Four Two and the Blue, it does not start in the mountains of Western North Carolina but the start of the ending does.  

        It’s a story of the capture of a real bad guy, James Neil Tucker. Our story begins in a make believe world of a Wild West theme park. Ghost  Town in the Sky, Maggie Valley, North Carolina.  

         In 1992, A Private Security officer working for the Park, found James Tucker hiding under a bus after the Ghost Town amusement park closed for the night, he didn't know at the time,  but Tucker was a wanted man.  

         Maggie Valley Police Chief Saralyn Carver, responded to the call to investigate the trespassing incident.  A normal radio check on the identity of the trespasser set in motion a deadly confrontation and several court trials to bring the want a be desperado to justice.