A re-enactment of an arrest made in Watertown in February 2003 may be shown late this summer or early fall on the TrueTV network's "Forensic Files," City Manager Mary M. Corriveau has revealed.

City Patrol Officer Richard C. Premo participated in both the arrest and the re-enactment, a portion of which was filmed here April 15.

The arrest involved Curtis Wayne Pope, 40, who was wanted for murder in Fort Worth, Texas.

Two months after he was arrested in Watertown, he was convicted in Fort Worth of stabbing a man 46 times.

Pope was a swimming pool subcontractor, and the victim, Darrell B. North, 62, was a project manager for a development company.

The murder occurred Feb. 22, 2000. Pope was staying at Econo Lodge, 1030 Arsenal St., on Feb. 24, 2003, when he had a brief encounter with Officer Joseph C. Reff during a traffic stop. A computer check failed to indicate any warrants for him, and he was let go.

About 90 minutes after that computer check, state police received notification from Fort Worth authorities about Pope. Watertown police and state police went to the motel, and Pope ran. With Officer Premo and state police Investigator Patrick A. Hathaway chasing him in the motel, Pope went out a back door and ran to Stateway Plaza, where he fell into the waiting hands of now-retired Officer David A. Russell Jr.

Officer Holly M. Trottier also participated in the filming. Officer Premo said the film crew also needed to film at a construction trailer in connection with the murder, but since it apparently could not find one in Fort Worth, it substituted a site on outer Washington Street.

Mrs. Corriveau said about two minutes of the show will contain footage recorded in Watertown.