'Most-wanted' fugitive captured (Buck Phillips, accused NY cop killer)

[krispos42]

POSTED: 10:12 p.m. EDT, September 8, 2006

CARROLL, New York (CNN) -- Fugitive Ralph "Buck" Phillips, wanted for allegedly shooting three New York state troopers, one fatally, after escaping from prison in April, was captured Friday evening after a daylong hunt, the New York state police said.

"At 8 o'clock tonight, (Buck) Phillips, as I told you before, could run but he could not hide," New York State Police Superintendent Wayne Bennett said at a news conference where he was flanked by dozens of officers from numerous law enforcement agencies.

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No gunfire was exchanged during the arrest in Akeley, a town in northwestern Pennsylvania near the New York border, the police said. Akeley is 10 miles southeast of Jamestown, New York.

A Warren County, Pennsylvania, sheriff's deputy spotted Phillips in a lightly wooded area and asked him to come out and Pennsylvania state police arrested him, Bennett said. Phillips was not armed or injured at the time of his arrest, Bennett said.

Phillips was tired, unkempt and "the look on his face was a blank stare," Bennett said.

U.S. marshals were transporting Phillips to Buffalo, New York, where he will be processed for unlawful flight at the nearby Erie County Correctional Facility, Bennett said. Erie County is the prison from which Phillips escaped in April.

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/08/ny.manhunt/index.html

Good that they got'em. We don't need nutty cop-killers running around.

[ClintonTyree]

1. We here in Western New York.............

are QUITE happy about this. For all those people that aided and abetted him in his flight from justice.....screw you too! I hope they bring charges against the entire lot of them. He's a Cop killer and NO amount of sympathy warranted helping that POS evade the law. The thing is, the moran was only doing 90 days in the Erie County Jail. After spending most of his adult life in prison he could have done that time standing on his head. He chose to escape and make a public enemy out of himself. What a tool!
He'll never see the outside of a prison cell for the rest of his life now. I hope he's happy with his decisions. :grr:

[krispos42]

2. yeah, he was a bad one

I mean, I understand it is possible to accidently kill a cop just as it is possible to accidently kill another person, but this case is clearly intentional. and he's not some kind of "freedom fighter" or something like that. Just a schmuck with a low IQ and a rifle.

I just can't believe this story was seven hours old and nobody posted it!

[hedgehog]

7. If I read the story in our paper properly, he was in jail because his

parole officer reported that he was threatening the same daghter and grand-daughter that he then broke out of jail to go see. Is that right? Then these family memebers that he had threatened were the ones hiding him from the cops?

[kurth]

3. This local thug was the nation's TOP STORY on the Cute-n-Perky show

In 2004, 57 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed in 50 separate incidents. The 50 incidents in which law enforcement officers were killed occurred in 22 states, the District of Columbia, and in the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Thirty-nine of the slain officers were employees of city police departments, 12 were part of county law enforcement agencies, and 3 were employed by state agencies. Three of the officers killed were employed in U.S. territories. (FBI data)

[Renew Deal]

6. This guy killed 2 state troopers

and injured one more. He just made the top 10 list. I wonder who gets the honor now.

[ovidsen]

4. Robin Hood's evil twin

I have roots in upstate New York... Chemung County (where Bucky shot his first cop) as well as Seneca, Tompkins and Erie counties. Folks there definitely have a "live and let live" attitude when it comes to petty crime... kind of a "boys will be boys" philosophy even when the so called boy is a man.

But that largesse ends when mischief makers start shooting people, including cops, and Bucky must have known that. The officers and troopers who cruise the hills and dales there are as often as not your neighbors.

PS - I'm now quite a few states away from New York, and when stories like this come out, the reaction from people I know here in SC who think that the state is just one big Manhattan is rather funny. "You have forests there? And lakes and dirt roads?" Uhhh... yeah, they do.

[Renew Deal]

5. This is good news

This evil little bastard was a ruthless murder. Hopefully he gets to spend the rest of his life looking at 4 walls without any human interaction.