[Oratam]

I was listening for hours on Friday, too. Around 5 PM, I heard a cop say something followed by another cop asking "could your repeat/clarify what you just said?" The first cop said very slowly "We got 'white hat' guy."

Then I lost the connection to the scanner feed.

When I got it back, I heard talk about "pulling your teams out" and "why not let 'em finish." All of which led me to believe they had him. The 6 PM press conference proved me wrong.

I continued to listen to the scanner and heard cops lamenting the loss of Federal teams around the perimeter, everyone was melting away. It was real depressing. Then a little after 7 PM, the situation got 'hot' again.

What was up with that "we got 'white hat' guy' transmission? Could they have located him at 5 PM but couldn't reach him and needed a feint like the press conference to flush him out?

[AppyPappy]

They meant they knew where he was, not that he was captured. They were desperate to get him alive because he has valuable intel.