Posted on 12/16/2005 2:36:11 PM PST by Pharmboy
(New York - WABC, December 16, 2005) - Eyewitness News has learned that Peter Braunstein, the man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman while posing as a firefighter on Halloween night, has been captured in Tennessee.
Details are sketchy but we have been able to confirm that Peter Braunstein was arrested today in Tennessee. Braunstein has been the subject of an intense manhunt for about six weeks. According to authorities, a female student at Memphis University was approached by Braunstein and notified campus police. When police approached Braunstein to question him, he reportedly stabbed himself in the neck.
He's been transported to a hospital in critical condition.
He is wanted in connection with a bizarre Halloween crime. He reportedly sexually assaulted a woman for 13 hours at gunpoint. He was able to bluff his was into her apartment by posing as a firefighter.
According to the television program, "America's Most Wanted," Braunstein was spotted donating blood at a blood bank in Memphis, Tennessee last month.
He allegedly told workers there he needed money to continue his travels, saying Kansas could be his next stop.
We will bring you additional information as we get it.
I pinged Ohio because he was big news in Cleveland when he was there looking for an old girlfriend.
Well, that's great news. I remember this story from Halloween. And he even put himself into critical condition. Fantastic. That's probably the only justice he'll ever get.
"Munchhausens By Leftie" again. Mirlecki has company.
Hopefully he croaks and saves the taxpayers.
Now if we could only make this THE fashionable method for liberals to great each other ......
Thank goodness they caught this savage!
I am a little curious, though..
The article says "He was able to bluff his was into her apartment.." Too bad he didn't cut himself in his "was" instead of his neck.
Thank GOD they caught this monster! Thanks for posting this.
He went down to the end of Lonely Street, to Heartbreak hotel.
The woman he terrorized for 12 hours has never gone back into her apartment. She can now rest easy...
I'm not sure if you have been following this case but they finally caught this loser.
He is going to be very surprised to learn the men who arrested him are gay cowboys dressed up as policemen.
Too funny, friend...I'm really LOLing here.
While I am glad he was caught, it is disturbing that he came to Memphis. We have enough homegrown scum without importing New York scum here.
It's a shame that the police just didn't stay back and let him complete the job.
Why? So we can spend a bunch of taxpayers' and hospital's money to save him? We really need to get our priorities straight.
Relax. I understand the *trauma team* is really the swing shift from Burger King.
Gee, that's great!
I guess he didn't want to hang around for 20 years like Tookie, writing kids books.
We should give his family about $100 grand and say thanks, he saved us a lot of money!
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