Posted on 05/02/2005 10:16:17 PM PDT by Coleus
Feds offer $1 million reward for fugitive Chesimard
EWING, N.J. -- Fugitive cop killer Joanne Chesimard is now on the same terrorist watch lists that include Osama bin Laden.
In an indication of how badly New Jersey authorities still want to recapture the Black Liberation Army member who executed a state trooper as he lay on the ground 32 years ago, the bounty on Chesimard's head was increased Monday from $150,000 to $1 million.
State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes said he hopes the sweetened reward will encourage someone to come forward with information leading to the capture of Chesimard, who has been living in Cuba under the protection of Fidel Castro's government.
"We have pretty long institutional memories," Fuentes said at a news conference at State Police headquarters on the 32nd anniversary of the killing. "This is a debt that she owes to the residents of the state of New Jersey for the crimes she committed."
Chesimard was convicted of the 1973 murder of Trooper Werner Foerster, but she escaped to Cuba and was granted political asylum after three gunmen busted her out of what was then the Clinton Correctional Institution for Women in Hunterdon County in 1979.
Garden State officials have failed to convince Cuba to hand over Chesimard, 57, who goes by the name Assata Shakur.
Shakur is still believed to live in Havana. But a woman with a Cuban accent who on Monday answered at the number listed for Shakur in Havana's phone book said that no one by that name lived there.
At the address listed in the phone book, the woman said that Shakur had moved several years ago. A neighbor, when asked if he knew where she had moved, simply laughed and said it was "a war secret."
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And maybe those of a few Hispanic bounty hunters who could go looking for her! >>>
Could be, and I bet a tons of other bounty hunters are going to learn to speak Spanish.
And just how is that Cuban going to find out about the reward? On the Commie News network?
I bet it's their favorite station
Sista needs a zot.
Hmmm, just signed up today and you're already very familiar with zots as well as being insulting to other FReepers.
sniff...sniff...sniff...a rather troll like odor is emanating from your posting history.
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