A Pennsylvania survivalist managed to elude capture during a massive manhunt since he was accused on Sept. 12 of killing a state trooper in an ambush.
That was until Thursday,
when he was captured in the Pocono Mountains, Reuters reports.
The ambush killed Corporal Bryon Dickson, 38, and wounded Trooper Alex Douglass, 31.
Frein was captured about 45 miles south of the ambush.
“Eric Frein had a mission and that was to attack law enforcement,” Frank Noonan, commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police, told a news conference. “If he got out of those woods, we were very concerned he would then kill more law enforcement, if not civilians.”
Authorities hope to learn how Frein managed to stay undetected for seven weeks.
He was finally tracked down after U.S. Marshals service officers found him at an abandoned aircraft hangar at a vacant resort in Tannersville, Pennsylvania.
He was arrested without incident.
