Third deadbeat dad to be arrested since new reward poster unveiled Sept. 10
By RICK COLLINS
The Patriot Ledger
PEMBROKE - A former Pembroke man who is one of the state’s top deadbeat dads has been arrested at a bus stop in Maryland.
Germaine Robert Jensen, who owes $24,195 in child support for his two children, was nabbed Thursday evening by Ann Arundel County Police.
Police caught up with him shortly after he quit his job at a gas station and convenience store because he discovered that money was being taken from his paycheck for the owed child support, according to Robert Bliss, spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Revenue.
Jensen was one of 10 Bay State men included on the department’s most recent ‘‘Most Wanted’’ poster.
His arrest marks the third made by law enforcement since the list was made public on Sept. 10.
Jensen is being held without bail and will appear in a Maryland courtroom on Monday.
Bliss said Jensen is far from the state’s biggest deadbeat; in some cases the amount of child support owed is nearly $200,000. However, he and other deadbeats dads were placed on the most-wanted list because state revenue officials had lost track of them.
‘‘The poster campaign is to help find them and make a larger point that paying child support is part of the larger picture of caring for kids,’’ Bliss said.
According to the state, Jensen has two children, 9 and 5, and is separated from his wife. He left Massachusetts in 2004 shortly after a judge ordered him to pay $150 a week for child support.
Bliss said when Jensen’s name recently popped up on a state list of new employees, Maryland officials began docking his weekly paycheck.
When the money was turned over to the state of Massachusetts, revenue officials notified Maryland law enforcement that there was a warrant out for his arrest.
Bliss said Jensen’s employer told Ann Arundel County Police that Jensen had recently quit and was standing at a bus stop across the street.
Bliss was unable to say where Jensen had been working.
Two other deadbeat dads were arrested last week.
Acting on a tip, police in Conway, N.H., arrested Peter Gerald Cantin on Sept. 11, the day after the wanted poster was made public. Boston police arrested Gene Kerswell on Sept. 14.
Cantin owes $75,496 in child support and Kerswell, $50,508.
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