Bennie Harden Wint Faked His Death

Bennie Witt is a man who managed to faked his drowning death nearly 20 years ago off a Florida beach. Whew! This thing was found out by a North Carolina police who stopped him for a traffic violation. He told the police that he faked his drowning death in Daytona Beach, Florida, in 1989. On that accident, he left behind his grieving fiancee and his 4-year-old daughter from a previous marriage. And now, after two decades, he has acquired a common-law wife and another child in Marshall, North Carolina. Why need to fake his death? Wint told the police that he faked his death in Daytona Beach, Florida, because he was "paranoid" about his narcotics-related activity at the time, Weaverville, North Carolina.

Because of malfunctioning lights on his license plate, he was pulled over in Weaverville on Saturday, the man (Wint) said his name was James Sweet. But when that police ran the name through official databases, he was unable to find any information.

The police found it suspicious and believed it to be a false name, so he arrested the man on first, suspicion of driving without a license and second, giving false information, those are both misdemeanor offenses, and booked him under the name "John Doe."

But "John Doe" finally opened up to the police, admitting that he was really Bennie Wint and that he had been on the run since 1989.

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