John LaPointe

… in the morning and they were just getting ready to pack it in for the night when the deputy, John LaPointe, heard a motor. They never saw the van until it was actually pulling up to the gate because it was a snowy night and the guy’s headlights weren’t on.

Jessie’s letter recalls LaPointe hearing the van during the stakeout.

Now lookit over there. See that Sheriff’s cruiser parked by the curb near the video shop? That’s John LaPointe inside.

LaPointe sits in the patrol cruiser watching downtown.

They had been found eight hours later, scared but all right. John LaPointe, Alan’s number-two deputy, was not in such good shape; he was home with a raving case of poison ivy he had contracted during the search.

The narrator describes deputy LaPointe’s poison ivy after the search.