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Billed as the “sum total of all the law enforcement community has learned about patrol cars to date”, the PPV boasts a 6.0L V-8 engine with 355 horsepower, 18-inch steel wheels, and a host of gadgets that puts any Hollywood squad car to shame. The Caprice, which replaces the long-used Ford Crown Victoria, is equipped with an infrared night vision camera, automated license plate scanner, and a touch-screen center console that replaces the older computers traditionally used by officers. In addition to horsepower and firepower, the cruiser is also outfitted with the latest in information technology, with ethernet, Wi-Fi and...

Mysterious tear gas canister sickens 43 in city By KIRK SWAUGER and PETE BOSAK, the tribune-democrat November 20, 2002 In violence called domestic terrorism by authorities, a canister of highly potent riot gas was detonated in a busy Johnstown neighborhood yesterday, sending 43 passers-by to hospitals. None of the patients was seriously injured by the gas, which is only available to the military or large police departments. An unnamed victim was admitted to nearby Memorial Medical Center for observation. All others were treated and later released from local hospitals. Symptoms ranged from tightness in the chest and tearing and burning...

US sniper 'linked to terror cult' By James Langton in New York, Evening Standard 14 October 2003 Evidence has emerged linking Washington sniper John Allen Muhammad with an Islamic terror group. Muhammad has been connected to Al Fuqra, a cult devoted to spiritual purification through violence. The group has been linked to British shoe bomber Richard Reid and the murderers of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan last year. Muhammad today stands trial for murder after bringing terror to America's suburbs along with a 17-year-old accomplice, Lee Malvo. Until now many believed that the killing spree, which left 10 dead,...

On September 11th, 2002, suspected Sniper John Allen Muhammad walked into the Camden, New Jersey State Motor Vehicles office, to register the now-notorious "blue Caprice" he'd just purchased. Though the car had not yet converted been into a rolling sniper's nest, what happened in the next several minutes leaves little doubt that Muhammad had something sinister in mind. The registration transaction began at 8:52 am. At 8:58 am., while Muhammad was still standing at the counter, someone (now believed to be fellow suspect, Lee Malvo) phoned a bomb threat at the Motor Vehicles office on the 1st Anniversary of what...

The car that investigators have portrayed as a killing machine used by the Washington-area snipers is getting its first thorough examination by detectives looking for clues that would explain how the men were able to roam the region and kill so many without detection. Among the items in the cluttered Chevrolet Caprice that will draw the most attention from police: a laptop computer, walkie-talkies and possible gunshot residue in a rifle port drilled in the trunk, law enforcement officials told The Sun.

For FReeper Sleuths: Extensive Table of Facts re Sniper Case To: CobaltBlue A couple of ideas from other freepers on other threads. Like a married man, our sniper needs to be home at night and on weekends. Needs to account for this time to someone. The Tarot deck the death card came from was published in 1996. Tomorrow is Columbus Day and a federal/banking holiday. Let's see if he takes the day off, too. There are rumours of a burgundy Chevy Caprice at the School shooting. Some ATF sources told a radio station the weapon is a Colt AR15. My...

CNN reported on their ticker this morning that police issued an alert October 7 for the snipers Caprice but decided to keep it from the public.

After the sniper arrests were made, the media reported that the snipers' Chevy Caprice could be seen in TV footage near the telephone booth where the police arrested the two immigrants in a white van. Question of Day: Why isn't the media showing the tv footage of the Caprice by the telephone Booth?

"...The man they identified yesterday as Muhammad told the women he was from out of town, planning to drive all night and just wanted to rest in his car. He asked whether they would mind. He stood barefoot, wearing shorts and a T-shirt, outside a car Thompson described as cluttered, as if he was living in it. By chance, he had chosen a sandwich shop next to the Donut Connection, just off the Jones Falls Expressway - a few blocks from the offices of the city police warrant apprehension task force. Thompson recalled a laptop computer, its screen glowing blue,...

<p>In the end, it wasn't the white van. Or the white box truck. It was a blue Chevrolet Caprice, the favored undercover car of police departments across the country.</p> <p>On Thursday, after arresting Gulf War veteran John Allen Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17, investigators said their 1990 sedan was the vehicle from which they killed 10 and wounded three.</p>