Manhunt

State police continued their manhunt yesterday for John R. Huber of Lancaster County, who police said shot a neighbor to death Friday night after she complained that he was harassing her. Cpl. Michael Eldridge said police were continuing to maintain a 24-hour surveillance at the suspect's home and the Rapho Township home of the victim, Kimberly Cooper, 33. Authorities said they have alerted departments throughout central Pennsylvania and,...

Bensalem manhunt ends in N. Philadelphia * 21st Street and Lehigh Avenue, North Philadelphia A 36-hour manhunt led police from Bensalem to Philadelphia yesterday to arrest Dennis Pipkin, 28, who allegedly assaulted and kidnapped his estranged wife with the help of another man, then sexually assaulted her in a Bensalem motel room on Sunday. Police said that Pipkin, of Feltonville, and the unidentified man attacked the woman while she was on her way to work. Pipkin held a stun gun and box cutter to the woman's body while he sexually assaulted her, police said.

A 25-year-old man was shot multiple times inside a Cheltenham Township home early Christmas Day, and died less than an hour later. Officers found the victim about 2 a.m. inside a home on the 1400 block of Beech Avenue in the Melrose Park section. He was transported to Einstein Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 2:26 a.m. Police said the victim, whose name has not been released, was a visitor at the home. The suspect in the shooting is still at large, and is described by police as a black male, armed with a semi-automatic handgun and wearing an Adidas sweatshirt.

EIGHT YEARS AGO, at the request of the Colombian government, U.S.military and spy forces helped fund and guide a massive manhunt that endedwith the killing of Pablo Escobar, the richest cocaine trafficker in theworld. While portraying the pursuit of Escobar as essentially a Colombianoperation, the United States secretly spent millions of dollars and committedelite soldiers, law enforcement agents and the military's most sophisticatedelectronic eavesdropping unit to the chase. The full extent of the U.S. role has never before been made public.

Two men were killed and a third was wounded yesterday in a Lancaster County mobile-home park, and the two men wanted in the shootings eluded a massive manhunt conducted by Pennsylvania and Maryland State Police. John Eric Ross, 19, and Wesley Charles Smyth, 26, were shot to death about 10:45 p.m. in Ross' mobile home at the Heritage Estates development on Route 222 in southern Lancaster County. Sgt. Edward Spewak of the Lancaster State Police Barracks said both had been shot in the upper torso with what he thought was a small-caliber automatic pistol.

The images come straight from the movies. A lone figure lurking in the shadows, or running and looking back over his shoulder, trying desperately to vanish. The anonymous killer lost on the lonely highway. The murderer holed up in the cheap hotel. The disguises, the quick escapes, the near misses. And somewhere behind, the pursuers. The police sirens blaring. Roadblocks. Bloodhounds. The obsessive detective following the smallest clue. Helicopters hovering over darkened streets.

Rosemary Kennedy had already served lunch - a turkey sandwich, mashed potatoes and Kool-Aid - to some 100 people at the soup kitchen on Broad Street yesterday when the odd young man with the smile and glassy-eyed stare appeared. Athough most of the patrons of the soup line at the Cathedral of Deliverance Evangelistic Church eat their meals quickly and leave, this young man seemed different. "After he ate, he just sat back, looking like he was a little off in space," Kennedy said last night.

Police were closer to knowing the mind of the "methodical maniac" stalking students but no closer to apprehending him early today as a massive manhunt entered its fourth day. Two more bodies were discovered about 20 miles east of Gainesville last evening, but authorities said the deaths were a double killing that appeared unrelated to the stabbing deaths of five students from the University of Florida and Santa Fe Community College. "We don't see any connection whatsoever," said Lt. Spencer Mann, spokesman for the Alachua County Sheriff's Office.

Lower Merion police combed the Haverford College neighborhood and ran down telephone leads yesterday in their search for a man suspected in the July 5 rape of an 11-year-old visiting Virginia boy in the woods near the college duck pond. Police said it appeared to be a single incident. They had no other reports of molestations in the area, a police spokesman said. The spokesman said there had been no arrests and police were still investigating the alleged rape, which the child told police occurred around noon July 5 as he was walking alone near the pond.

Three Delaware prison escapees, on the run since breaking out of jail three weeks ago, surrendered peacefully to Arizona lawmen last night, a day after they allegedly robbed a Utah convenience store and set off a massive manhunt through rough desert country. Led by Arizona's ace tracker, state police there closed in on the convicts just before nightfall as they huddled in the brush on a creek bank outside the town of Littlefield. Although armed, the men - Richard N. Irwin, 26, of Coatesville, and Mark A. McCoy, 25, and Larry D. Nave, 22, both of New Castle - gave up their brief fling with freedom without firing a shot, said Sgt. Allan Schmidt of the Arizona Department of Public Safety.

A 25-year-old man was shot multiple times inside a Cheltenham Township home early Christmas Day, and died less than an hour later. Officers found the victim about 2 a.m. inside a home on the 1400 block of Beech Avenue in the Melrose Park section. He was transported to Einstein Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 2:26 a.m. Police said the victim, whose name has not been released, was a visitor at the home. The suspect in the shooting is still at large, and is described by police as a black male, armed with a semi-automatic handgun and wearing an Adidas sweatshirt.

A West Philadelphia man was arrested this morning by police looking for the gunmen who fired at police when they caught him breaking into a car in North Philadelphia's Longan section Wednesday morning. James Ceaser, 30, of the 5000 block of Girard Avenue, is expected to be charged with aggravated assault and related charges in the shooting on the 300 block of East Elwood Street. No one was injured in the shooting, which triggered a major manhunt. A man taken into custody during the manhunt was released Wednesday evening.

Bensalem manhunt ends in N. Philadelphia * 21st Street and Lehigh Avenue, North Philadelphia A 36-hour manhunt led police from Bensalem to Philadelphia yesterday to arrest Dennis Pipkin, 28, who allegedly assaulted and kidnapped his estranged wife with the help of another man, then sexually assaulted her in a Bensalem motel room on Sunday. Police said that Pipkin, of Feltonville, and the unidentified man attacked the woman while she was on her way to work. Pipkin held a stun gun and box cutter to the woman's body while he sexually assaulted her, police said.

ATHENS, Ga. - Thousands of people mourned a slain Georgia police officer whose killing led to a days-long manhunt for a suspect who surrendered on live television. Almost 2,500 people packed the Classic Center theater for the funeral of Athens-Clarke County Officer Elmer "Buddy" Christian, the Athens Banner-Herald reported. Hundreds more lined the streets as a horse-drawn hearse took his body to Evergreen Memorial Park for burial. One of Christian's hobbies was shoeing horses for friends and family.

Federal marshals joined the manhunt on Sunday for an accused murderer who bolted from a Philadelphia police van as he was being transported to prison. At least a half-dozen marshals were working with police and other investigators to find Omar Roane, 22, according to John Patrignani, the acting U.S. marshal in Philadelphia. The assistance is provided through the U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force, an initiative that works with local police to hunt down suspects. Patrignani was reluctant to make any predictions about capturing Roane or to speculate about whether he was still in the area.

LANCASTER - An Arizona prison escapee who is the subject of a national manhunt served 14 years in Pennsylvania prisons for three convenience store robberies in Lancaster County. John Charles McCluskey, 45, pleaded guilty in January 1993 to three counts of robbery, assault, conspiracy, and other charges for the April 1992 crime spree. He was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison and was paroled to a halfway house on July 16, 2007. The Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole declared him delinquent less than two months later.

A man wanted for pulling a gun in North Philadelphia has been arrested after triggering a manhunt that involved a SWAT team and a subway search. Details are still sketchy, but the drama unfolded about 10:30 a.m., when a man pulled a gun on a woman and cable TV worker and then fled to a building on the 1400 block of Girard Avenue. A SWAT team was called in but did not find the man after a search. The manhunt then shifted to the Broad Street Subway line, but again, the man, who was wearing pajama pants and a gray hoodie, was not found.

The man authorities say planned a drug-linked robbery that turned into a double homicide at a posh Northern Liberties apartment complex last month intends to surrender to police tomorrow, according to his lawyer. James "Pooh" Wilson, 40, who has been the target of an intense law enforcement manhunt for two weeks, will turn himself in at the Police Administration Building, said Christopher Warren, a prominent defense lawyer who said Wilson had retained him. "My client said he had nothing to do with the tragic events that occurred," said Warren, adding that Wilson had been aware for several days that the police wanted to speak with him and had been making preparations to surrender.

The first full day in the hunt for Police Officer Chuck Cassidy 's killer ended with officials posting a larger reward for the tattooed assailant, federal agents joining the search, and new details emerging about the last moments before the officer was shot. With no strong suspects in custody, officials boosted the reward from $50,000 to $115,000 and distributed photographs of a distinctive gray hooded sweatshirt with striped sleeves recovered from a September robbery they suspect was committed by the same man. All day yesterday and into the night, members of the police SWAT unit and homicide detectives canvassed the West Oak Lane neighborhood for potential witnesses in the shooting of Cassidy , who was gunned down Wednesday morning as he walked in on a robbery inside the Dunkin' Donuts at 6620 N. Broad St. As helicopters hovered overhead, investigators searched storm drains, rooftops and alleys for evidence the killer may have discarded.