AOL – by Kathy MathesonCANADENSIS, Pa. (AP) – Nine days after a gunman opened fire in a deadly ambush at a Pennsylvania state police barracks, authorities said Sunday they have recovered one of the weapons he was carrying and believe they are hot on his trail.
Investigators said they believe the alleged gunman they describe as a self-taught survivalist had been planning a confrontation with law enforcement for months, if not years.
Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens revealed a few more details about the manhunt for Eric Frein, saying trackers have discovered items he hid or abandoned in the woods – including a gun they believe he had been carrying while on the run.
“We are pushing him hard, he is no longer safe and I am confident he will be apprehended,” Bivens said.
The search is focusing on a several square-mile area on the border of Pike and Monroe counties around the village where Frein grew up, Bivens said.
“We know that Frein has prepared and planned extensively for months, and maybe years,” Bivens said. “He planned his attack and his retreat.”
Bivens said Frein had the advantage of knowing the “rugged terrain” around the area initially, but does not any longer.
“Our tactical operations people now also know his backyard, the area he once felt safe in,” Bivens said.
No contact had been made with Frein, who was placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted list after the Sept. 12 shooting at a nearby police barracks that left one trooper dead and a second wounded.
Bivens said authorities did not yet know if the gun they recovered had been used in the shooting.
Although Bivens did not say what police believe was Frein’s motive, he said Frein had been planning a confrontation with police.
Bivens said Frein had covered perhaps 15 or 20 miles since the shooting last week and authorities do not believe he has contacted his family. Police also have no information that he’s being helped by anyone, Bivens said.
Authorities lifted a shelter-in-place order on Saturday night in the Pocono Mountains community where the search has focused, although they continued to urge residents to be vigilant Sunday as the manhunt continues.
Bivens asked residents to report any shelters or bunkers that Frein may have constructed and also asked hunters to review footage from trail cameras set up to track wildlife.
Heavily armed police and federal agents on Friday descended on the community where Frein, 31, had lived with his parents, ordering residents to stay inside their homes and preventing anyone outside the neighborhood from returning to their homes. Law enforcement officers wearing bulletproof vests and armed with rifles scoured the woods as helicopters buzzed overhead.
Residents are being urged to keep doors locked, keep their yards well-lit and report suspicious persons or vehicles. They should also stay out of the dense, boggy woodlands where the search was underway, authorities said.
Good job Angel. you just beat me too it. 😎
This story, from the Allentown Morning Call, has a few more details:
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-pa-trooper-eric-frein-manhunt-sunday-20140921-story.html
They need be sure walking in the woods like that that they have on there orange safty vest with yellow reflective tape on them. We would not want a officer to shot a officer here and blame the wrong person for it. And it is a OHSA. requirement. No law breaking out there by the law. Also remember by your own commits you made this a personal venteta against him. So he has the right to flee and defend himself from that point. So bring him in alive that is important to all. We need know the whole truth on this deal you are in here.
“So bring him in alive that is important to all.”
Do you honestly think the police will allow him to be brought in alive and live to tell about it?
I fully agree with you, NC. They have no intention of bringing him out alive. I also expect that there will be shooting injury/injuries and/or death, by “friendly fire”, that will be blamed on him.
“Although Bivens did not say what police believe was Frein’s motive, he said Frein had been planning a confrontation with police.”
They know that Frein had been planning a confrontation with police but they won’t say why. As many on FTTWR have stated: this entire matter wreaks with vengeance for reasons known, but suppressed.
The authorities really want to slam Frein because they are afraid of copy cats continuing his legacy. Frein appears to be a person who has been pushed to the point of having nothing left to lose… like thousands of other Americans.
oh gosh
copy cats would be terrible (sarcasm)
If he is real and did ‘it’ I say “there is an American who has decided enough is enough. good for him.”
If not “$*$&*# it”
“Police say rifle carried by ambush suspect found”
Whenever I see those first 2 words together, I get this nearly overpowering urge to yell BULLSH#T!!! at the top of my lungs.
Thankfully, it’s a controllable urge.
barely
Did you read the link that I posted? The rifle that they found is an AK-47. The rifle used in the shooting was a .308.
Didn’t check the link, Angel, but I knew it was a .308 from another article I saw yesterday.
2 + 2… 🙄
Is it not possible to have a ak-47 shoot a .308?
While an ak usually would normaly fire a 7.62mm case( a real russian one) it could actually be .308 in an ak style(pretty much the same thing) just with a bit of headspace work done.
“Survivalist” may know how and or the cops/media are retarded and a 7.62 and a .308 are one in the same. Which even SOME gun shop owners will tell you they ARE the same.(the thickness and amount of brass are slightly different, the projectile is about the same)
It is possible but it might also be a dumb ass trying to hurt himself with a out-of battery detonation or a ruptured casing.
IMO
“No contact had been made with Frein, who was placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted list after the Sept. 12 shooting at a nearby police barracks that left one trooper dead and a second wounded.”
So that’s all you need to do nowadays in order to get on the FBI’s most wanted list? Shoot a cop?
Shoot a civilian, it’s no big deal, but shoot the king’s men and you’re on America’s most wanted list.
Yea the shooter must definitely have something on these cops. Otherwise, this is one big false flag event to demonize preppers and patriots.
“Yea the shooter must definitely have something on these cops. Otherwise, this is one big false flag event to demonize preppers and patriots.”
BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually, NC, you are correct on both points in this statement… it isn’t an “or” supposition.
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” – Rahm Emanuel
Like ‘finding’ yellow cake urainium in Iraq?
They don’t have a clue who did this. All they are doing now is BLUSTERING and Huffing and Puffing and Puttering, because they may at some level suspect that they’ve gone too far with abusing the population and now they have someone now HUNTING them. My speculation. Only reason they want RAT SNICHES to turn nose on the shooter is because they don’t have the intelligence or talent to even narrow down the field of suspects below a few thousand. They’re screwed. Only thing they can do is grab a patsy now to take the fall and try and through their weight around to terrorize the population. Pennsylvania is also LRS (Long Range Shooting) country. They’ve been at it for 3 centuries with that tradition.
Look what effect the perpetrator has had though? He’s shown the population if they are paying attention, just how heavy handed and brutal the police are in that state, how corrupt the government is, and also just how vulnerable they really are to being nibbled at. How many nibbles would it take to put the Pennsylvania state police agencies, and then their governments out of business if people got it into their brains to start nibbling in earnest and just start taking their Black Uniformed Moose? If for instance every day they started loosing 2 GOONs to a LRS in the back? There are 365 days in a year. Also if the population entered into this particular sport and there would be a dramatic escalation in the “Whack A Mole” game the police forces would be making. Every atrocity how many LRS would they create further attracting their numbers?
They destroyed a beautiful state with their Police State crap, just like they did in California. Now could it be that they are beginning to reap the harvest of what they have sewn and are FRIEGHTENED TO DEATH OF WHAT COMES NEXT?
What do you think?
Right Right!
“Nibbling”…
I like that.
Even 2 a month and these shills would stop showing up for work out of complete anxiety of “not making it home”.
You know what?
You dont actually even need to execute. All you need is a hole(large cal) in the front door of one of their offices every monday 10:30am and watch the rats jump ship. “no one knows which building, in which city, in which state. But they know the time and day. Then it starts 2,,,6,,,420(first larger number that came to mind) different places each monday. They close and it starts on wednesdays.
nibble.lol
I do not advocate nor condone such activities. The previous message was hypothetical and discussion about a missing “terrorist” and the future implication of terrorism. The author is a retard but means well…lol
Yes. Of course. 🙂
Mainly when I read stories like this I start asking questions. Its all speculation and purely fun. Also is a good opportunity to laugh at the enemy of the American way of life as they squirm. 🙂
“They don’t have a clue who did this……Only thing they can do is grab a patsy now to take the fall and try and through their weight around to terrorize the population.”
I’ve been thinking that same thing since this whole thing started. This Frein guy doesn’t even sound like he exists. He seems like another made up patsy or crisis actor and the fact that they are doing nothing with his father (who told them his son doesn’t miss) as bait or to bring him in, just makes the whole story even more full of baloney.
This whole thing sounds like a way to make the police feel less humiliated and, as you said, to terrorize the population from having anyone attempt to do it again.
Has any investigative authority considered that these cops, stationed in very obscure location in the wilds of Pennsylvania were shot by their own brethren, and then pinned this heinous act on Frein? (reflections of Sandy Hook, with the exception that a gun was actually used to kill… with no apparent motive).
An occasional sacrifice of their own is required for the needs of a few elitist at the top… nothing else is sacred, nor indispensable.
http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/society-vs-individual/105032#respond
it’s been 10 days, and they are in a forest?
unless they have him in a fridge to extend the incident,
he could be in Europe or Asia by now!!!
the fact that nobody has fallen into a pit,
got a noose round the ankle,
or got a bullet in the head/neck tells me not only is he NOT in the forest,
but he never stuck around and may never have been in it to begin with.
i said it in another thread,
the guy’s expertise is eastern front warfare – that’s small town urban combat.
not a rambo re-enactment.
This will evolve into another Boston Bombing scenario. The cops will issue another order “to shelter in place”, and then begin house-to-house searches (without a warrant).
The media hype on this tells me that it is another staged event. Cops die in the line of duty every day. For example: when DHS Border Guards are killed in USA territory by illegal drug or human trafficking gangs,,, does the FBI immediately place a dragnet?
The country folk living in that region of Pennsylvania are so scared by this over-blown, media-driven event that they will gratefully invite armed law enforcement into their homes; because if you aren’t willing to help and surrender your Constitutional Rights to privacy and unwarranted searches, then you have something to hide.
“You’re either with us or against us in the fight against terror.” -President George W. Bush
The guy is not going to leave his rifle behind…period
Agreed!
so who’s word do we have that it is actually HIS rifle? 😕
Exactly. 😉
Or that this rifle was planted, rather than being found?
Oh, I forgot…. the POLICE SAID that they found this gun. Silly me. Compounding my emphasis with #1NWO Hatr (below).
The first two words of the title are a dead giveaway: “Police SAY…”
(Emphasis mine).
They lie as much as their trainers.
check this crap out. http://www.policeone.com/police-heroes/articles/7575420-Pa-trooper-slain-in-ambush-eulogized-as-impeccable-officer/
I’ve seen a lot of pro-LEO stories (pulling at heart-strings) since it happened. They’ve been shoveling it out so thick, I don’t have boots tall enough. LOL
The last I heard, it is $175,000.00 reward.
yeah. sickening. if this trooper was paid back for dirty duty, i feel it could be the start of something on a larger scale. It’s time for some real blow-back.
Only $175,000? Aww….man. That’s barely enough to buy a decent house these days. Man, the justice system is so screwed up these days. (sarcasm)
LOL
Based on the Satanic story I think they are telling he will be found on day 15
“Based on the Satanic story I think they are telling he will be found on day 15”.
I’m a little dense this morning, and noted very well versed in Scripture, Pastor H. Could you expand on this for me?