Posted on 11/30/2009 11:33:06 PM PST by OldDeckHand
Seattle, Washington (CNN) -- Investigators searching for the suspected killer of four Seattle-area police officers have rounded up several of his relatives and friends to keep them from helping him escape, a sheriff's spokesman said Monday.
Police have brought in five or six relatives and other acquaintances of Maurice Clemmons, "and we expect that number to grow," Pierce County Sheriff's Department spokesman Ed Troyer said.
Some of Clemmons' family and friends have been trying to help him elude police and seek treatment for a gunshot wound, and they have tried to divert investigators by calling in false leads, he said.
"What we're going to do is eliminate those people, so he'll have no place to go," Troyer told CNN. A raid in the southern Seattle suburb of Renton late Monday was aimed at cutting off Clemmons from that support network, he said.
Clemmons, 37, is an ex-convict with a long rap sheet in Washington and Arkansas, according to authorities and documents. He is wanted in what police called the ambush-style killing of four police officers from Lakewood, near Tacoma, about 40 miles south of Seattle. Witnesses say Clemmons was shot in the torso during the Sunday morning attack, and blood and gauze bandages were found in a truck linked to Clemmons, Troyer said.
The sheriff's department said associates who refuse to cooperate with the investigation could face criminal charges.
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Any chance the scumbags be considered accessory to murder or held liable as accomplices or something for their efforts to hinder capture?
Sadly I think this is all they have left to try to find him.
Hopefully he doesn’t escape and he faces prison time and the death penalty.
Without a doubt. An earnest prosecutor could warm up the charge sheet with such hits as: aiding and abetting, accessory after the fact, obstruction of justice and willful destruction of evidence, just to name a few.
“”What we’re going to do is eliminate those people”
if only........
I'm not a doctor - in any way - but, I've been a hunter all my life. Animals that are shot in the torso, usually aren't long for this world. If the blood loss doesn't get you, the infection usually does. I just hope he doesn't die before they find him. I'd much rather see him go down with 100 holes, rather than just one.
Sounds like he comes from a family of winners. /s
There are 4 families with kids who are now missing a parent. Donations for the families can be made to:
Lakewood Police Independent Guild
PO Box 99579
Lakewood, WA 98499
Put something in the memo section of your check to let them know where you want your donation to go. (Slain officers, etc..)
There is also a way you can donate online.
Yep. :-)
There are only a few “communities” he can blend in with and they are are well known to law enforcement. With the hole in his worthless PoS hide, it won’t be long.
The cops in the region are turning the place upside down to dislodge this turd.
It sounds like the whole family is rotten.
Ping!
To help the families of the fallen officers.
Ethnicity is not the reason. I have seen the same attitude within Indian Villages towards the law.
Then they wonder why they are living a nightmare.
Most Americans refuse to live that lifestyle, does anybody blame them?
Animals hiding animals from the grown-ups.
Washington state is too close to Canada for comfort.
This guy may be trying to make it across that border.
Would the Canadians who don’t have a death penalty extradite someone facing the death penalty in this country?
No. The Canadian Supreme Court ruled back in 2000 or 2001 that it was unconstitutional to extradite someone to a country in which the accused may face the death penalty. Unless they receive assurances that the death penalty won't be sought, they won't return the fugitive.
Having said that, I'm not sure if Washington state even has the death penalty. Given the political leaning of the state, I'd be surprised if they did.
We DO have the death penalty. We just don’t use it enough!
Yes, we have the death penalty...unfortunately, state prosecutors seldom will seek it.
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