SOURCES: SUSPECTED COP KILLER ERIC FREIN CAPTURED

[charlie and algernon]

Source: ABC

Action News has learned that police have captured Eric Frein, the man accused of killing a Pennsylvania State Trooper.

Sources tell Action News, Frein was captured in a hangar after law enforcement closed in on him Thursday afternoon.

A law enforcement source called Frein a "coward."

Frein is charged with opening fire outside the Blooming Grove barracks on Sept. 12, killing Trooper Bryon Dickson and seriously wounding Trooper Alex Douglass.

Read more: http://6abc.com/373904/

[JDDavis]

1. Great news,

Now the kids can go trick or treating tomorrow.

Let's find some more details as to where and how he was captured.

[calimary]

3. Welcome to DU, JDDavis!

Glad you're here! I hadn't thought of that, but you're correct! I'm sure people all over that part of the country were terrified about letting their kids out - ANYWHERE, for any reason, while that asshole remained at large.

EXCELLENT news.

[JHB]

16. According to the story, in an abandoned hanger...

...of the Birchwood Pocono Airpark, near Analomink, which shut down sometime in 1998.

I have relatives in that area, within hiking distance of that place.

On edit: fixed date: 1998. The earlier info was from a different shut-down airfield.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. A law enforcement source called Frein a "coward."

No, LEO, a COWARD shoots an unarmed African-American multiple time in Ferguson. Frein is a DUMBASS who couldn't outwit LEO (which is not hard).

[calimary]

5. Meh, I'd go so far as to call him a Dumbass AND a Coward.

I think the ISIS people are cowards, too. And that jerk who shot the soldier and terrorized people up in Canada. Notice how they feel they must cover their faces? Yeah? Pretty chickenshit if you ask me. If they're so brave 'n' bold and rough 'n' tuff, then let them show their faces. Otherwise, they're yellow as little garden lemons.

[Cooley Hurd]

7. I don't think he's a hero, by any means...

...but he is a DUMBASS by every metric.

And I find it hard to think of anyone who evades their pursuers for so long as a coward. A coward would've given up by now. IMO.

[Skittles]

8. gun humping piece of shit

definitely a coward

[Cooley Hurd]

11. Agree to disagree.

[Iamthetruth]

17. I hope we don't waste much tax money on him

Worm food

[catnhatnh]

23. Perhaps...

...but you could say the same thing about swat cops.

[Warpy]

10. It had to be pretty disheartening

when the cops kept finding his stashes of guns and pipe bombs, not to mention his sleeping bags and backpacks.

It's getting cold out there. I'm sure that's got more to do with it than anything else, except maybe he got a toothache. That would discourage most survivalists on the run.

[Nay]

15. My opinion about calling such people "cowards" is that LEOs should

refrain from calling anyone they catch any names at all in public. It's unprofessional, sounds bullyish and juvenile, and does nothing to advance impartial justice in any way.

[ncjustice80]

19. He attacked armed men with body armor. Cops kill unarmed black men.

Who is the real coward???

[leftynyc]

21. Why can't it be both?

Why does one negate the other?

[C Moon]

4. Good. Just 2 days ago I was reading an L.A. Times article...

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-frein-manhunt-20141027-story.html#page=1

"They are really not going to catch him until he is ready to be caught," said Jeremiah Hornbaker, who hired Frein five years ago to advise him on historical accuracy for a World War I documentary film. "He is a very intelligent individual."

I guess he was ready.
I'm glad for the local people there. That must have been hell.

[El Shaman]

12. Yup,

very intelligent feller, age 33 and mom's did his laundry !

[jtuck004]

13. Might I point out that 12 million people have moved into poverty since 2008? Snarky remarks

about living with your mom might describe hundreds of people who simply have no other choice, and your remark demeans them. I know you think it is just about him, but, and especially on this board, you stand a real chance of hurting someone who might take that personally, even if they shouldn't.

Just a thought:

Poverty and intelligence have nothing to do with each other, except where poverty reduces it by destroying your health, regardless of what those with the most assets try to make you believe.

Look around at some of the contributions of those who came out of those conditions and it will be clear - it's just something we avoid teaching people because we want you to think "those people" are defective - all the better to manipulate us with.

[Earth_First]

18. +1

Thank you!

[Cryptoad]

6. About time,,,,,

I guess President Obama was the cause of it taking so long? But I am glad for the community!

[JDDavis]

9. Yes, Obama is to blame for everything wrong in the world

As you know, I'm being as sarcastic as you are.

[VWolf]

26. Me too

[dbackjon]

14. A terrorist is what he should be called

[pinboy3niner]

20. CNN: "He was cuffed with Cpl. Dickson's handcuffs, officials said."

Cpl. Bryon Dickson was the State Police officer Frein murdered outside the Pennsylvania State Police barracks in Blooming Grove.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/30/us/pennsylvania-trooper-shooting-suspect/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

[leftynyc]

22. Nice touch

That had been the rumor when I watching earlier in the evening. Then I watched the Knicks ruin Lebron James' return to Cleveland.

[yellowcanine]

24. This source says captured in "open field away from the airport hanger"

But when the marshals found him in an open field away from the airport hangar, he was unarmed, authorities said.
"He was definitely taken by surprise," Noonan said.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/31/us/pennsylvania-eric-frein-arrest/index.html


"Taken by surprise" while taking a crap?
Whatever, he doesn't appear to be as smart as everyone was saying - hanging out in the open at an abandoned airport when there is all kinds of cover nearby doesn't seem so smart.

[LiberalElite]

25. I fought the law and the law won -

[yellowcanine]

27. One of my classmates in junior high broke a milk bottle beating time to that song.

He was riding with his dad in the car and got a little carried away. His dad was pissed.

Oh yeah, it was a full milk bottle until he broke it.

[Blue_Tires]

28. Interesting that the cops were able to take him alive...

If only Frein was waving a toy gun around Wal-Mart...