|
|
| Escaped U.S. killer eludes Mounties |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 05/08/2006 |
|
PENTICTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA - A convicted killer who escaped from a federal prison in Louisiana last month was stopped in a stolen car but eluded capture, Royal Canadian Mounted Police said. Officers said Friday the car was stopped in this southcentral British Columbia resort and wine country town a week earlier. The driver fled, but an officer later recognized him as Richard Lee McNair, 47, a martial arts expert with a history of carjacking who escaped from prison April 5 in Pollock, La.. Fingerprints from the vehicle confirmed the identification, a digital camera in the car contained recent images of him and police also recovered an undisclosed amount of Canadian currency and receipts. "There's no way of knowing - he could be in B.C., he could be even camped out in some wooded area - we don't know," Mounties Staff Sgt. Steve Berney said. "We don't know what vehicle he's driving or who he's associated with." McNair, an Oklahoma native, should be considered armed and too dangerous for civilians to approach, police said. He was serving a life sentence for killing truck driver Jerome Theis of Circle Pines, Minn., at a grain elevator in Minot, N.D., during a burglary attempt on Nov. 17, 1987. Richard Kitzman, a grain elevator employee, was shot four times but survived after pretending to be dead. |
MARKETPLACE search vendors | advanced search
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
|
Comments:
No comments have been posted for this article.
Login to let us know what you think