Police Won't Confirm Missing Man Has Shooting Connections (Have YOU seen this man?)

NBC4 News ^ | October 5, 2002 | NBC4 News broadcast, Associated Press

[LibWhacker]

You're givin' me the chills, dude!

[browardchad]

Your links in the original post are non-operative.

[LibWhacker]

This is the best I can do:

It's only a likeness, 'ya understand? :-)

[Hail Caesar]

sorry about that (above)...these should work, now:

Previous Stories:

• October 5, 2002: Police Connect D.C., Montgomery Shootings
• October 4, 2002: Police: D.C., Montgomery Shootings Linked
• October 3, 2002: Manhunt Continues; Police Identify Shooting Spree Victims
• October 3, 2002: Reward Offered For Arrest of Killing Spree Suspect; Five Dead
• October 3, 2002: Local Leaders Respond to Shooting Spree
• October 3, 2002: Police Investigate Two Shootings In Montgomery Co.

[ffrancone]

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[LaGrone]

I know,I was kidding ya!

[uncbob]

The only way this guy is going to get caught by the boob police in Md or DC is if somebody sees him and calls before he can get away

[infowarrior]

Read the article carefully, and you can see from where this linkage of Mr Baker with the Montgomery Co. shootings is coming from. This whole thing appears to have been started by the ATF! Where have we seen this before? Why at both Ruby Ridge, and Waco. The ATF has a history of "embellishing" the recorda, or alleged records of people thay are dealing with on a professional basis. This does NOT pass the smell test!

For that matter, why is the ATF (or even any other Federal agency, when push comes to shove) involved in a local missing persons case?

the infowarrior

[sheik yerbouty]

Looks a bit like Tom Arnold.

[agrandis]

That can lead us to looking for Identity affiliation, or AlQaida.

It's difficult to tell these turkies apart you know!

Sometimes they work together (Elohim City cult + McVeigh + Nichols + Iraqis).

[agrandis]

Who is the man the BATF barbequed in California, for being nutty and telling his neighbors tall tales? I wondered what their jurisdictional duties were there, too.

[FreedomPoster]

Chief Moose was just one Geraldo, stated that Baker *isn't* the guy, and that the VA shooting is forensically related. See the live thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/763772/posts?

[pray4liberty]

The paper said that the bulletin describes Baker as a drug user affiliated with various militia and white supremacist groups.

Media Bias Alert! How do they know this for a fact? Did they ask him?

The guy isn't even charged, much less tried or convicted, and the smearing begins.

[Howlin]

Former N.C. Man Located, Not Considered Suspect

A former North Carolina resident who federal authorities had wanted to question about the string of fatal shootings in Montgomery County and D.C. is in police custody.

Moose said Robert Gene Baker III (pictured, left) was located in Fairfax County, Va., and was taken in to custody on an outstanding warrant for auto theft in Florida.

Moose says that Baker is still not considered a suspect in the shootings, but is being questioned. Moose did not elaborate on how or when Baker was taken into custody.

Despite an earlier ATF report that Baker was armed with a handgun and high-powered rifle, Moose said Baker did not have a weapon in his possession when he was taken into custody.

Earlier in the day, The Raleigh news and Observer reported that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had issued a bulletin for Baker, a former Raleigh resident. (pictured, right).

The bulletin described Baker as a drug user affiliated with various militia and white supremacist groups.

He was said to be traveling south in a white 2000 GMC van with dark lettering registered in Maryland.

The ATF said Baker's family members reported him missing on Monday. Moose said Baker's wife was the last to see him. The ATF report did not say where his family lives.

[TERMINATTOR]

James Beck was barbequed in his home in Santa Clarita. There were several FD rigs hosing down the neighbors houses, not one drop of water landed on Beck's house. His dogs fried too. His girlfriend got out through the garage door which was then shut again, and the house allowed to burn. The fire started when BATF agents fired teargas into the second story windows. The next day the remains were bulldozed flat.

The offense... telling his neighbors he was a fedral marshall.

[Theo]

ffrancone -- your message is important, but you're becoming a bore. Could you try a different way of getting your message out? You post the same thing on all the posts;
you're abusing FR....

[Hail Caesar]

I get your point. However, it is my understanding that the ATF offered their technical "help" with ballistics and firearms identification. Need I say more. ;-)

[Hail Caesar]

I agree. The anti-gun media bias started within minutes of the first shooting Wednesday night. However, they did back off of the usual "profiling" of suspects for almost two whole days.

[Hail Caesar]

It appears that this suspect Robert Gene Baker III was wanted on felony auto theft charges anyway so it's just as well that he is in jail now, but, he is not considered to have been involved in the recent murders.

So, I guess law enforcement still has quite a lot more work to do on this whole case, which is not even close to being over.

[infowarrior]

Chief Moose, to his credit, never stated Mr Baker was a suspect. This article alone states as much.

The same, however cannot be said of the ATF, which in this article alone ties Mr Baker with an "affiliation" with some unnamed "white supremacist/militia" group, or groups (kind of like Randy Weaver, whose initial "affiliation" with Ayran Nation was that he went to a meeting or two, and didn't like what he saw, but was targeted by the ATF to get a lot closer to them, as their informer). They also took it upon themselves to "declare" Mr Baker "armed and extremely dangerous", and as being armed with a rifle, when at the end of the day, when Mr Baker was taken into custody, he had no weapons.

Remember, the article said that these things came from an ATF field office in North Carolina, which is a far piece from Montgomery County Maryland, so I kind of doubt that a field office in N C was doing "ballistics and firearms identification" work on this case when there are offices closer to the scene which would be the logical ones to be tasked with this. None of this passes the smell test for credibility in any kind of proper investigation...

the infowarrior