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malaise

(269,019 posts)
Fri Oct 17, 2014, 08:31 PM Oct 2014

Unanswered Questions re the manhunt for the cop killer

- the militia murderer in Pennsylvania?

http://themoderatevoice.com/199371/pennsylvania-cop-killer-manhunt-in-disarray-as-unanswered-questions-continue-to-pile-up/
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As the manhunt for state trooper killer Eric Frein lurches toward its sixth week, the Pennsylvania State Police are on the defensive because of the latest scandal to tarnish the long troubled agency, while a law-enforcement insider says the search itself is in disarray.
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The insider, who has many years of experience in tracking and surveilling criminal suspects, asked that his name not be used. He acknowledges that any search the size of the Frein manhunt involving disparate law-enforcement agencies, in this case the state police, local and regional police forces, as well as the FBI and ATF, is bound to encounter some jurisdictional bumps and bruises. While the various groups are assigned their own search sectors, the insider said they “are barely cooperating because every group wants to be the one to catch him.”

“It’s a clusterf—,” said the insider, who confirmed the accuracy of my earlier post and updates on the dragnet. “The locals [local police forces] know more than they’re telling the state police and the feds.”

Frein (pronounced Freen) shot and killed state police Corporal Bryon Dickson and wounded Trooper Alex Douglass on September 12 in a sniper-style attack in the late evening darkness as they changed shifts at a barracks in Blooming Grove, a small Pike County community about 20 miles north northeast of Frein’s parents’ house in the village of Canadensis in Monroe County. The self-trained backwoods survivalist crashed his Jeep near Blooming Grove and is believed to have hiked south southwestward through nearly unspoiled forest to an area that provides many hiding places not visible from the air, let alone on the ground a hundred yards away, not far from where his parents live.

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