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Title: Eric Frein, suspect in Pennsylvania trooper ambush, arrested without incident
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URL Source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/10/3 ... per-ambush-taken-into-custody/
Published: Oct 30, 2014
Author: staff
Post Date: 2014-10-30 21:21:46 by out damned spot
Keywords: Eric Frein, killer, Pennsylvania
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Eric Frein, the suspect in the deadly ambush of a Pennsylvania state trooper, has been taken into custody after a seven-week manhunt, the Pennsylvania State Police announced Thursday night. A law enforcement source told Fox News U.S. Marshals arrested Frein after obtaining information that he was hiding in an airport hangar near Buck Hill, the same general area where they had been searching for him. They called him out and he surrendered without incident, the source said. He was armed but no shots were fired. Frein, 31, allegedly opened fire outside the Blooming Grove state police barracks on Sept. 12, killing Trooper Bryon Dickson, 38, and seriously wounding Trooper Alex Douglass, 31. Since then he had managed to elude a massive manhunt involving hundreds of state troopers, dozens of vehicles and a helium balloon. Frein belonged to a military re-enactor's group, playing the part of a Serbian solder. He had a small role in a 2007 movie about a concentration camp survivor and helped with props and historical references on a documentary about World War I. The FBI named him to its 10 most wanted list. Frein has been charged with first-degree murder and various other offenses, including two counts of possession of weapons of mass destruction filed after police discovered the pipe bombs. Earlier this month, Pennsylvania State Police revealed information from a journal found in the woods in which Frein allegedly described shooting the state troopers. They also detailed campsites where Frein was believed to have hidden, cooking over small fires even as heavily armed police hunted him. Police found pipe bomb booby traps and a gun resting against a tree, but had only had a handful of unconfirmed sightings of Frein. "Got a shot around 11 p.m. and took it," Frein wrote on papers found by police. "He [Dickson] dropped. I was surprised at how quick."
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More on Frein's Journal: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cop- killer-suspect-eric-frein-left-behind-diary-ambush-n221436
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