SWAT teams descended on sleepy Poconos mountain town to catch Libertarian Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger who was 'obsessively vegan' as a teen and 'looked drugged at school'
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The Daily Mail ^
| Dec 30 2022 | Jennifer Smith and Andrea Cavallier
SWAT teams descended on a sleepy residential community in Pennsylvania in the early hours of Friday morning where they arrested Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger more than a month after four university students were slain in their beds. Kohberger,
28, was taken into custody by the Pennsylvania State Police at a home in Albrightsville, a small town in the heart of the Poconos Mountains more than 2,000 miles from where the gruesome killings took place on November 13. Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson said investigators believe Kohberger broke into the students' home 'with the intent to commit murder.'... Friday's arrest...
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Man arrested in Poconos in connection to murders of 4 University of Idaho students, sources say...Action News has confirmed the man's identity as 28-year-old Bryan Kohberger.
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https://6abc.com ^
| Friday, December 30, 2022 11:06AM | Staff
<p>MOUNT POCONO, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- A 28-year-old man was arrested Friday in the Poconos in connection with the murders of four University of Idaho students, law enforcement sources tell ABC News.</p><p>Action News has confirmed the man's name is Bryan Kohberger.</p>
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1 dead, another hurt after Poconos robbery victim fights back
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Wfmz ^
SHARE THIS FacebookTwitterWhatsAppSMSEmail Home News Regional Poconos and Coal Region Poconos and Coal Region Next Up NEXT UP Carbon County helps create action plan to address high suici… 1 dead, another hurt after Poconos robbery victim fights back 69 News May 18, 2021 Updated 7 hrs ago FacebookTwitterWhatsAppSMSEmailSave SMITHFIELD TWP., Pa. -
A man is dead after he and four others tried robbing someone in the Poconos Monday evening, police say. A group of five entered a home around 5:45 p.m. in the 900 block of McKinley Way in Smithfield Township to rob the person there, state police said in...
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Hospital chief: Poconos' close ties to NYC make it a coronavirus 'hot zone'
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WFMZ(Lehigh Valley) ^
| 03/29/20 | Irene Snyder
The Poconos region -- particularly Monroe County -- is being called a "hot zone" for the coronavirus pandemic. The
president of St. Luke's Hospital's Monroe Campus, Don Seiple, said the the Poconos' close ties to New York City, the nation's virus epicenter, will likely lead a much larger increase in cases locally unless something is done soon. ---SNIP--- Those traveling from New York City are now supposed to self-quarantine for two weeks. However, Seiple said, plenty of people have already been exposed.
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Poconos gunmaker's vision: an AR-15 for every American
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Philly.Com ^
| 03/15/2018 | Jason Nark
An AR-15 semiautomatic rifle sits perched on a rack, higher than all the other things that decorate Justin Moon’s office in the Poconos. He built the rifle himself, and it rests above his diplomas from Harvard and the University of Miami and shelves jammed with thick economics textbooks and business guides. Last
week he sat at a desk beneath it, discussing a dead-serious plan to make that black gun even more ubiquitous in America. “I mean, every American should really have an AR,” Moon said. “It’s America’s rifle.” ---SNIP--- Moon’s hatred of communism and socialism has direct roots in North...
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Reverse discrimination? Man sues two officials of private Monroe County community [Poconos PA]
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Pocono Record via Allentown Morning Call ^
| May 22, 2016 11:22 AM | Andrew Scott
A white man alleges in a lawsuit that a Coolbaugh Township community’s black public safety chief discriminated against him and other white public safety officers while showing favoritism to black and Latino officers. Bryan
Rush is suing A Pocono Country Place Public Safety Chief Kurt Cummings and its black human resources director, Cassandra Webster, who Rush claims did nothing to address reverse-discrimination complaints and approved Rush’s termination after Cummings falsely accused him of smoking in a patrol vehicle. Cummings occasionally made “discriminatory comments about protecting his minorities and other insensitive comments about favoring employees based on race,” Rush’s lawsuit states....
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In Poconos, Mysterious Turkish Cleric Shrouded in Mystery
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Al Arabiya ^
| Monday, 1 February 2016
The influential Muslim cleric lives quietly on a gated 26-acre compound in the Pocono Mountains, where he prays, works, meets admirers and watches from afar as terrorism accusations that have landed him on Turkey’s most-wanted list unfold in court. Rarely
seen in public, Fethullah Gulen has long been one of Turkey’s most important scholars, with multitudes of followers in his native country and around the world. More recently, Turkey’s increasingly autocratic president, Recip Erdogan, has accused Gulen of plotting to overthrow the officially secular government from his Pennsylvania idyll some 5,000 miles away. Gulen’s supporters call the charge baseless and,...
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Police in Poconos Recover Guns Stolen from Home
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wnep.com ^
| wnep.com
MIDDLE SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP — Police have recovered 14 guns they say were stolen from a home in Monroe County.
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EXCLUSIVE: Poconos cop killer taunts police as he's spotted AGAIN before fleeing into remote
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UK Daily Mail ^
| September 28, 2014 | Martin Gould
Fugitive gunman Eric Frein has again evaded the massive police dragnet that has now been hunting him for 16 days as he ran into woods after being spotted in the Pocono Mountains. Frein, 31, wanted for murdering one state trooper and critically injuring another, managed to flee, although MailOnline understands they have
a jacket that he left behind. Frein, who is on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List, was seen just outside the perimeter of the five-square-mile search area that up to 1,000 cops are manning at any one time. The sighting led to a huge shift southwards as heavily...
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