September 12, 2014 Survivalist Eric Matthew Frein PA Terrorist State Police Ambush Suspect terror: assassination of police killed: 1 killed wounded: 1 suspect: white, serbian sympathizer, at trial, charge: terrorism, murder . Eric Matthew Frein allegedly used a .308-caliber rifle in a politically motivated terrorist attack to gun down Pennsylvania State Police Cpl. Bryon Dickson and seriously wound Trooper Alex T. Douglass in ambush as troopers were shot without warning while one was heading to the barracks and the other was leaving it. Frein is described as an anti-police“survivalist” who has "made statements about wanting to kill law enforcement officers and also to commit mass acts of murder”. Residents noticed an abandoned Jeep registered to his parents and led to search of his home, where, according to the complaint, they found his Pennsylvania driver’s license, A search of his home turned up his Social Security card, his game commission range permit, camouflage face paint, flash lights, a black hooded sweatshirt, two empty rifle cases, “military gear” and “various information concerning foreign embassies” which are often targets of terrorist attacks. On his Myspace Frein engaged in recreational military simulations as a Serbian soldier. Pennsylvania State Police also believe that Frein made several trips to Southeast Europe. Two terrorism counts were added to his charges after police said he told them he’d carried out the attack to “wake people up.” In April 2017 the trial began, as the prosecution called the defendant an assassin who targeted law enforcement in hopes of sparking a revolution.
Serbians fought against Bosnian muslim insurgency
Investigator Bill Warner blames Sovereign Citizens who number in the “hundreds” on the Suncoast. He has linked this to two other incidents in the past week, both with a courthouse incident last Friday in Atlanta where Dennis Marx shot a deputy before being shot and killed himself. And then the Sunday shooting of two officers and a Walmart shopper in Las Vegas. He says make no mistake, this is domestic terrorism.
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Similar cases cited: Dennis Marx Sovereign Suicide Assault on Cumming GA Courthouse 2 casualties: 1 suspect killed, 1 officer wounded, downtown cordoned off for hours. June 6, 2014 In Cumming, GA at the Forsyth County Courthouse, Dennis Marx was due to plead guilty in a drug case when he drove a rented $40,000 Nissan Armada SUV through flower beds into the steps, He fired through the windshield at an officer, and engaged in a shootout, armed like a terrorist commando wearing body armor tossing improvised and commercial explosives, 2 handguns, homemade spike strips and smoke devices to keep police away. He wounded a deputy who expected to recover before he was killed in a two minute gun battle with several police. Marx, who was part of the violent anti-government sovereign citizen movement was apparently going to try to take over the courthouse and take hostages.
5 dead including 2 suspects, 2 police June 8, 2014 Las Vegas Suicide Couple Ambushes and Kills Two Officers, Walmart customerIn Las Vegas, a married couple Jerad and Amanda Miller who some say shouted “This is a revolution!” ambushed and shot two police officers eating at a pizza restaurant and shot a third Walmart shopper who confronted them before killing each other in a suicide pact. Police found swastikas in the suspects apartment and they were known to be anti-government white supremacists spouting conspiracy theories who often spoke of killing cops, and they draped a "don't tread on me flag" popular with the Tea Party and a swastika over their victims. They had been seen supporting the Bundy ranch.
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- Heavy: Eric Frein: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com
- Los Angeles Times Pennsylvania trooper killed letter laments the state of the country and says that only “another revolution can get us back the liberties we once had.” “The time seems right for a spark to ignite a fire in the hearts of men,” the letter says. “What I have done has not been done before and it felt like it was worth a try.”
- Wikipedia Eric Frein Eric Matthew Frein (born May 3, 1983) is a captured American fugitive, suspected in the 2014 Pennsylvania State Police barracks attack that led to the death of ...
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Eric Frein - Wikipedia officer of the first degree, assault of a law enforcement officer, two counts of terrorism under 18 Pa C.S.A. 2717(a)2 and 3, two counts of weapons ...
Eric Frein charged with terrorism, aimed to 'wake people up' - LA Times Nov 13, 2014 - Eric Frein, the Pennsylvania survivalist accused of killing one state trooper and shooting another, ... Eric Frein is charged with terrorism; he aimed to 'wake people up' charged Thursday with two terrorism counts after police said he told them he’d carried out the attack to “wake people up.” After a seven-week manhunt, Frein, 31, was captured Oct. 30 and arraigned the next day on charges including murder and attempted murder. One of the new terrorism charges accuses him of trying to affect the conduct of a government. The other accuses him of trying to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion.
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Eric Matthew Frein (born May 3, 1983) is a captured American fugitive, suspected in the 2014 Pennsylvania State Police barracks attack[2] that led to the death of Corporal Bryon K. Dickson II, a trooper with the Pennsylvania State Police; and the injury of Trooper Alex Douglass, another state trooper in Pike County, Pennsylvania, on September 12, 2014. Frein is the 503rd person added to the Ten Most Wanted List of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).[3][4] Frein was captured on the night of October 30, 2014 at an abandoned airport.
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[hide]Background[edit]
Eric Matthew Frein was born on May 3, 1983, in New Jersey. At Pocono Mountain High School in Pennsylvania, he was often a top scorer on his school's rifle team.[5] He was described by police as a "self-taught survivalist" with a grudge against law enforcement personnel.[6] An early report citing friends who said that Frein was an Eagle Scout[7] was repudiated by the CEO of the Boy Scouts of America Minsi Trails Council, where Frein had worked.[8]
He attended East Stroudsburg University for one semester.[9][10] He also attended Northampton Community College (the Bethlehem Township campus and the Monroe County campus).[11]
In 2004, Frein was charged with burglary and grand larceny after he was accused of stealing items from vendors at a World War II reenactment in Odessa, New York. He failed to attend his trial and was arrested in Pennsylvania as a fugitive from justice.[11] In lieu of $5,000 bail, Frein was held for 109 days in a county jail in New York on a felony charge before pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of possession of stolen property to be sentenced to time served and payment of $3,120 restitution.[12][13]
In 2008, Frein founded Istocni Vuk or "Eastern Wolf", whose Myspace page[14] pictured Frein engaged in recreational military simulations as a Serbian soldier. Though he reenacted in a variety of roles, Frein preferred to portray Serbian soldiers. Fellow reenactors believed this was not based on ideology, but the way that the ragtag look of a Yugoslavian field jacket stood out from others. Pennsylvania State Police also believe that Frein made several trips to Southeast Europe. The Eastern Wolves were one of several groups competing in "tacticals" under the umbrella organization "Red Alliance", using replica airsoft rifles with plastic BBs. Frein was viewed as a serious reenactor with a deep knowledge of history, looking down on casual participants playing "cowboys and Indians", but having a sense of humor, not obsessive, for example choosing a cheaper Chinese-made replica airsoft rifle over one made in Yugoslavia.[13]
Frein's reenactment landed him several employments in the film industry. He played a non-speaking role in Lustig, a 16-minute anti-Nazi film where he portrayed a German soldier at Auschwitz. In 2009 he gave technical direction in a World War I documentary being made by Jeremiah Hornbaker, who credited him for correcting errors in the set design and later offered him several other jobs that he turned down.[13]
In July 2014, Frein told Hornbaker, friends, and parents that he was moving to Delaware to work at a chemical company. Police speculate that he might have taken this time to make the preparations that later would allow him to survive and evade capture.[13]
At the time when Dickson and Douglass were shot, Frein was living with his parents at their home in Canadensis in Barrett Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania.[15][16][17]
Identification as a murder suspect[edit]
During a shift change late at night on September 12, 2014, outside the Trooper barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police in the Pocono Mountains in the Township of Blooming Grove, Pennsylvania, a sniper opened fire with a .308-caliber rifle,[18] killing Corporal Bryon K. Dickson II, a 38-year-old Pennsylvania State Police Trooper; and critically injuring Trooper Alex Douglass.[11][13][19]
Three days after the shootings, a man walking his dog found a 2001 Jeep Cherokee partially submerged in a retaining pond or drainage basin in a swamp near the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 402 and US Route 6, about 2 miles (3.2 km) away from the crime scene.[13][19][20] The vehicle was determined to belong to Frein's parents, and evidence found in the vehicle included Frein's Social Security card, information about foreign embassies, camouflage paint, and bullet casings matched to the shooting.[21] This led authorities to identify Frein as their only suspect.[18][22] On September 16, 2014, a criminal complaint against Frein was docketed in the U.S. District Court in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and the court issued an arrest warrant the next day.[23]
Authorities speculate that Frein, driving with his lights off on Pennsylvania Route 402, had failed to see a T-junction and drove into the swamp, and then may have traveled 15 to 20 miles (24 to 32 km) on foot to Canadensis, Pennsylvania, where his parents live.[24]
Manhunt[edit]
The police manhunt grew from nearly 200 officers by September 17[22] to 400 officers by September 22[31] to nearly 1,000 on September 24.[32] Law enforcement officers included local police; state police forces from Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey;[33] FBI; U.S. Marshals Service; and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.[31] Though tracking dogs were regarded as a valuable tool, particularly on damp, calm days when scent dissipates most slowly, Frein successfully evaded them using "water crossings and terrain conditions."[34][35]
Equipment included numerous police vehicles,[36] armored BearCats,[24] at least four helicopters with thermal imaging equipment, and a 13,000-pound, $245,000 Ring Power armored siege vehicle dubbed "The Rook".[21] The FBI displayed Frein's image and the number of a state police hotline (866-326-7256) using hundreds of digital billboards in Pennsylvania and five other states that are controlled by Outdoor Advertising Association of America.[36][37][38]
Police believed they saw Frein several times during the manhunt, but each time were unable to approach directly due to the rugged terrain of the area, which allowed Frein to slip away. They believed Frein was taunting them, and Lt. Colonel George Bivens told reporters, "I almost think this is a game to him."[32] A colleague from the MilSim group "Red Alliance" suggested that "If he's re-enacting anyone, it's Rambo from the very first movie," referring to the character of John Rambo in First Blood.[39] The difficulty of capturing Frein was compared to that of finding other survivalist outdoorsmen such as Eric Rudolph, Troy James Knapp, Jason McVean, and Robert William Fisher, who were able to elude police for years by special training.[40]
Local resident James Tully, who bears some resemblance to Frein and who walks to work in the area, says he was stopped more than 20 times by officers searching for Frein. He claims one officer pointed a rifle at him and forced him to the ground, leaving him with bruised ribs and in fear that he would be shot.[41][42]
Capture[edit]
Frein was captured by U.S. Marshals in an open field near an unused airport hangar at Birchwood-Pocono Airpark, an abandoned airfield[43] approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) ENE of Tannersville, on October 30, 2014, 48 days after the shooting.[44] At the time of his arrest, he was not armed,[45] but a .308-caliber rifle and a pistol were recovered.
Frein was arrested without incident.[46][47] Although he did not resist arrest, he suffered a cut to the bridge of his nose, as well as a scrape over his left eye and bruises to his cheeks and eyes.[48][49] A Pennsylvania State Police spokesman said these injuries occurred while he was on the run,[50][51] but the U.S. Marshals said this occurred while police had him down on the pavement during his arrest.[49][52] According to Scott Malkowski, one of a dozen Marshals who took down Frein, standard procedure is "Never have a fugitive look at you", and because Frein went down in a position with head up looking at the officers, they pushed him to a face down position causing the scrapes in the process.
Symbolically, Frein was restrained after the arrest using the handcuffs of deceased officer Bryan Dickson[53][54] and taken to the barracks where the attack occurred in the backseat of Dickson's car.[55]
Legal developments[edit]
The day after his capture, he was charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder in the shooting that killed Dickson and wounded Douglass.[56]Frein was charged with murder of the first degree, criminal attempt to commit murder of the first degree, murder of a law enforcement officer of the first degree, criminal attempt to commit murder of a law enforcement officer of the first degree, assault of a law enforcement officer, two counts of terrorism under 18 Pa C.S.A. 2717(a)2 and 3, two counts of weapons of mass destruction under 18 Pa C.S.A. 2716(a), discharging a firearm into an occupied structure, possessing instruments of crime, and recklessly endangering another person.[57][58][59] He pleaded not guilty to all charges during his video arraignment on January 29, 2015. Prosecutors say they intend to seek the death penalty.[60]
Before Frein can be tried, a Pike County judge has to determine if information about a State Police internal affairs investigation involving witnesses can be released to Frein's attorneys.[61]
In June 2016, it was determined that while Frein's trial would be heard by a jury brought in from another jurisdiction within Pennsylvania due to the extensive pretrial publicity in Pike County. This was would be the first time that a Pike County case would be heard by a jury empaneled from another county since the 1980s.[62]
Also in June 2016, Pike County Judge Gregory Chelak denied a motion made by Frein's attorneys to bar prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the case. Chelak rejected Frein's claim that the death penalty was unconstitutional.[63][64]
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External links[edit]
- Quotations related to Eric Frein at Wikiquote
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April 4, 2017 Trial of state police ambush suspect begins today ccused of killing a police trooper and injuring a second in a 2014 sniper attack at their barracks, calling the defendant an assassin who targeted law enforcement in hopes of sparking a revolution. Eric Frein "slithered through the underbrush" in the dark of night, concealed himself in woods across the street from the Blooming Grove barracks in northeastern Pennsylvania, and took aim at Cpl. Bryon Dickson II and Trooper Alex Douglass during a late-night shift change
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