On the news... white van stopped, man in custody.
 

Think they got him? MSNBC is pretty stoked about it.

swat team?

thank fuck...

:thumbsup

i don't see it online.

So turn on the tv slappy.

fox news is stoked as well

Thanks man, I never would've known that since the tv was off, I got it on now, Fox News.

Its not saying much on the site and we aint got cable at the office!!!!!

so whats happening?

It's also on BBCWorld

Surrounding a phone box?

Looks like they've got 'em... but there are all kinds of stories according to the news. It's saying that they may have arrested the guy for being in drunken charge of a vehicle. But the van was specific enough to be pulled over anyway. Wtf?

Yes, I'm watching BBCWorld here.

At CNN I see just Enron stuff. I don't have FOX News.

Better go turn on the telly.

Sky News and ITN is showing Fox, if you have those. ;-)

No, I don't have those. I changed back to CNN and they are showing the news too.

it might not be him..

so far sounds like bs on cnn (really?).

i don't think it's him.

I agree.

I gotta go to the office and I don't have cable there.

I'll watch my favourite news channel: GFY

Jer

too lazy to go turn on the tv. keep us updated.

i don't think it's him,,

police chief made me think that

IF IT IS ... THEN .. HANG THAT FUCKER!

not him...i don't see how a person could be so dumb as to keep the same car...

You have to go to www.msnbc.com to see the story. They stopped a van that was making a call at a payphone. Yesterday's newsconference asked the sniper to call a number. Then Chief Moose gave another cryptic newsconference this morning saying that the van driver definitely called the number but again told the sniper that the police were preparing a "response" to the message.

I think they might have caught someone related, potentially part of a small group or couple involved in it.

Police detain sniper suspect
October 22 2002


Police cars and SWAT teams yesterday detained a man near the scene of the latest suspected sniper shooting in Virginia, local media reported.

CNN television said the man was taken into custody after a phone booth and white van were surrounded on a main road in Richmond, Virginia.

Police on Sunday issued an appeal to the person who left a message at a restaurant in Ashland, Virginia, where a 37-year-old man was shot and seriously wounded on Saturday.

The sniper has killed nine people and wounded two others before the shooting.

"To the person that left us a message at the Ponderosa last night: You gave us a telephone number. We do want to talk to you. Call us at the number you provided. Thank you," Montgomery County police chief Charles Moose said.









Police sources in Paris said earlier yesterday the sniper could be a 25-year-old French deserter from officer training school.

France has alerted Interpol about the army deserter, who is known to be an excellent marksman.

The cadet has been missing since early September from the elite military school, Saint-Cyr Coetquidan, in Brittany, eastern France, after going on vacation in August, officials said. When he left the school, he reportedly told friends that he was heading for Canada.

Interpol was notified of the disappearance of the officer, a normal procedure, and a judicial investigation was opened, which is also normal, said Defence Ministry spokesman Jean-Francois Bureau.

Bureau acknowledged there was some speculation of a connection with the sniper investigation, but he said that was just hypothetical at this point.

"We have no certitude of a link," he said in a telephone interview. However, "this soldier has a very, very good reputation as a marksman."

And since the September 11 terror attacks on the United States, "these are things we follow very closely," he added.

Interpol, the international police agency based in the French city of Lyon, said it refuses to comment on active cases.

The deserter, not identified by name, was given permission for an August trip to the United States and Canada, said Bureau. Police sources said he had planned a trip to Chicago.

RTL radio reported the deserter was of Yugoslav origin, but Bureau could not confirm that, saying that he had to be a French citizen to attend the military school.

The missing officer never showed up for school in September. The gendarmerie, a force under the Defence Ministry, sent a note last week to the Interior Ministry. Interpol was then contacted, said Bureau.

Bureau cast doubt on reports in the French media that students at Saint-Cyr alleged they recognised their comrade in an unofficial police composite drawing of the sniper reportedly shown on French television.

Agencies

it's on cnn.com now.

just heard that they arrested 2 people now...

Really? You are surprised at the stupidity of others? Hasn't life yet taught you that people can be really dumb and that it happens quite often?

we'll the person has killed 9 or 10 people without getting caught...now this could be luck but I doubt it...

if it is the right guy, then he should be shot for his stupidity and not for his crimes...

The media monkeys are patting themselves on the back right now, for saying there were two people.

Right now they are acting like this person on the phone was ratting out the shooter that was in another location. and after they arested him this person turned himself in. or some shit.

I would not be suprised that it wasnt the snipper. the news media sucks..

It's funny - I get most of my news, about news, right here on this board.

indeed..

On the other hand, getting away with 10 murders in the same
area without taking any measures to hide yourself:

He's probably not the only one who should be shot
for stupidity..