I believe he is being profiled based on his thieving attributes...but youre right about the media....perhaps he was really a geocacher wanting to sign the log in private and thinking the owner was a muggle he made a mad dash to the woods so he wouldnt have to explain geocaching to a perhaps anti-cacher and thus endanger the well being of the cache. Whilst in the woods he signed the log and upon returning to replace the cache he was ambushed by some power hungry cops who obviously had not much better to do, a near by witness sees this all go down and goes home to tell their spouse who knows a person that knows a person who knows news paper writer, and then it goes down "Hitech Super Airforce Agent Steals Tupperwear At Gunpoint"......