FUGITIVE ON THE MOVE? Ambush suspect spotted outside of search zone

This photo by the Pennsylvania State Police shows Eric Matthew Frein, 31, of Canadensis, Penn. (AP/PennDOT via Pennsylvania State Police/File)

The search for a Pennsylvania state trooper’s accused killer took on new urgency Saturday after a woman told police she spotted the man in a wooded area with his face caked in mud and carrying a rifle.

State police said the new sighting appears to be highly credible because it took place near the Pocono Mountain East High School where survivalist Eric Frein attended classes.  The woman told authorities she saw Frein dressed all in black a little after 9 p.m. Friday and that the distance between them was only 15 or 20 feet.

“We’re still searching,” Lt. Col. George Bivens said during a briefing Saturday afternoon updating the media on the search, which is now entering its sixth week.

Hundreds of state police have been searching a heavily wooded area near the home of Frein’s parents in Canadensis in the state’s rural northeast. Based on the sighting, Bivens said it appears Frein has moved about six miles south. He said the search area was being expanded to include Paradise and Pocono townships, lehighvalleylive.com reports.

State police said Frein is the gunman who ambushed two state police troopers at a state police barracks in Pike County late at night on Sept. 12. The attack killed Cpl. Bryon Dickson and badly wounded Trooper Alex Douglass.

Douglass left the hospital Thursday. “He’s in good spirits and doing well,” Bivens said.

Bivens said state police are testing blood found at two homes for a link to Frein.

Frein is a self-described survivalist. During the manhunt state police recovered documents which show Frein has held a grudge against law enforcement and government for a long period of time.

“We’re not going to rest,” Gov. Tom Corbett said at the news briefing, according to lehighvalleylive.com. “Nobody’s going to stop until we find this individual and he’s apprehended.”’

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FUGITIVE ON THE MOVE? Ambush suspect spotted outside of search zone

Prime murder suspect spotted at church

Deon Green, STAR Writer

In a case that had been puzzling the Golden Grove police in St Thomas, a prime suspect believed to be the brother of a man shot dead two weeks ago, was chased after he was seen in a church and held.

Reports reaching THE STAR are that residents tipped off the police that the suspect had been hiding near the Hampton Court Seventh-day Adventist Church since his brother’s puzzling death.

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Police sources say the suspect was spotted in the church yard and ran as they chased him. It is understood that the suspect whose name is being withheld, in a frantic bid to elude the cops slammed into a tree and suffered head and foot injuries. Three of the cops also suffered minor injuries and had to seek medical attention. The suspect remains under police guard in hospital in stable condition. He is to interviewed on release from hospital.

On June 6, the Golden Grove police began probing the circumstances under which 23-year-old Romio Lynch from Long Hill Road in Montego Bay, St James died.

At the time of the incident residents in Stokes Hall heard an explosion at the Sugar Housing Scheme. Minutes later a man was seen struggling to get from the work site. The man, identified as Lynch, later died while undergoing surgery, after telling medical personnel that he was injured by a length of steel.

However, medical sources at the hospital confirmed that the injury was consistent with that of a gunshot wound to abdomen.

The cops are now probing allegations that Lynch may have been accidentally shot with an illegal firearm.

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Prime murder suspect spotted at church