Fishermen Find Naked Fugitive In Crocodile Infested Waters In Northern Territory

Two fishermen cruising through crocodile infested waters in the Northern Territory have come across a bizarre find.

Cam Faust and Kevin Joiner were laying crab traps at East Point when they discovered a naked bloke sitting amongst the mangroves.

Faust told 9News: "We heard this faint like 'ahhh, ahhhh' - [I said] to me mate 'is that guy saying help?' so we got a bit closer and I said 'I can see you'."

The unknown man was Luke Voskresensky, who told the duo he had been surviving on snails and got lost after a New Year's Eve party.

"We thought he was having us on, taking the piss, and then we went closer and realised the severity," Faust said. "Completely naked, cuts all over him, swollen feet, covered in mud."

Not knowing who he was, they thought he was in urgent need of a rescue and pulled him onto their tinny.

Voskresensky was handed some shorts and a beer and Faust and Joiner thought they would be welcomed back home as heroes for saving the poor bloke.

But, little did they know the 40-year-old who just hopped in their boat was actually a fugitive.

There was an arrest warrant out for Voskresensky for allegedly breaching bail over an armed robbery. Police say he escaped a few days earlier after unlocking his ankle monitoring bracelet.

Faust and Joiner took him back to Darwin and rang an ambulance and were hoping on checking in on him when he had recovered.

But Faust got a call that made him realise everything.

"I was going to go visit him in hospital and my partner's a paramedic saying 'he's in hospital with handcuffs on, two cops babysitting him', so we were like oh, maybe we'll leave it," Mr Faust laughed when recounting the story to 9News.

The anglers were surprised Voskresensky managed to survive so long in an area where crocodiles roam free.

Mr Joiner said it will be an awesome story to tell in the future: "I don't think we'll ever catch [anything] like that again."

The Guardian reports Voskresensky has since been charged with aggravated assault and breach of bail. He will appear before court on 9 February.

Topics: Australia

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