Sources: Sniper Arrests this morning "not adding up"

CNN

[newsperson999]

Sources are saying that at first there was "lots of excitment" about these arrests however now things may be "not be adding up"

[Pete]

CBS news reports that police sources have told them that neither man in custody is the sniper.

[johniegrad]

Sources?

[freedomson]

Who are your mysterious sources?

[chudogg]

CBS

[OldFriend]

Consider the source.........and wait for the TRUTH......

[usmom]

I've been thinking that all along. This guy/s is an expert at evasion, yet he would just sit at a phone booth in a vehicle that matches police descriptions across from a gas station in broad daylight? If this is true, he would be a candidate for one of those 'stupid criminal' TV shows. Somehow I think this sniper would put up more of a fight than that. The only other thing I can think of is a diversion. Maybe this person is working with the sniper and is just trying to tie up police and get the public's guard down while the real sniper prepares to strike again.

[antivenom]

I will make a bet the people arrested this morning were engaging in EXTORTION...and were trying to HUSSLE a buck...

[Dog Gone]

From CNN:

Investigators found a handwritten note in the woods near the Ponderosa. One source close to the case said the note contained "significant content."

Sources said investigators found the note after a caller to the investigation tip line said there was a note for police in the woods near the restaurant. The phone call, placed after the Saturday night shooting, was traced to a location in Richmond near where the man with the minivan was picked up Monday.

Sources said the note "hinted at a demand for money."

Montgomery County, Maryland, Police Chief Charles Moose, who is heading the sniper investigation, issued a brief, cryptic statement Monday. "We are going to respond to a message that we have received," he said. "We will respond later. We are preparing a response at this time."

[Neets]

Yup...that was pretty obvious early on...this guy has been extremely successfull in alluding LEO's since day one, I find it incredible that he would have easily and quite stupidly fallen for the ole "traced to a phone booth" dragnet.

[antivenom]

Couple of hucksters...trying to make a BUCK...or trying to be the next Matthew Dowdy....I think a couple of goof balls trying to swindle some money via extortion...

[cynicalman]

Maybe this person is working with the sniper and is just trying to tie up police and get the public's guard down while the real sniper prepares to strike again

Maybe the sniper set up this stooge.

[browardchad]

I can't back this up with a link, since the story has since been updated, but I was struck by a curious comment on MSNBC this morning, after the arrests and statement by Moose. An LE source who had seen the "letter" left at the Ponderosa said he felt "we are in for a rough time."

I won't even begin to speculate on what he may have meant.

I also just saw a screen splash on CNN that some Gitmo prisoners are being moved to Pakistan. Coincidence? Who knows?

[antivenom]

Couple of "hucksters" trying to extort money...they were NOT as smart as the sniper...and have proven that to be so...they were busted within a few days...and the SNIPER is still at large...

[xsrdx]

Sources said the note "hinted at a demand for money."

If that's the case, these arrests have nothing to do with the shooting. This is some ding-dong trying to cash in on the reward, however ineptly.

My guess is nobody is any closer to catching this perp.

[Arkinsaw]

I will make a bet the people arrested this morning were engaging in EXTORTION...and were trying to HUSSLE a buck...

I sure wouldn't have picked a white van to do my extortion in. LOL

[PoisedWoman]

....I think a couple of goof balls trying to swindle some money via extortion...

But how would they know which phone booth to show up at unless they read or wrote the note?

[WillVoteForFood]

At the risk of going "tinfoil" here, what are the chances the note was particularly ominous in its contents? Moose's statements regarding the note and upcoming responses have an almost pleading quality to them. Now obviously that could simply come from not wanting to see other individual injured or killed, but I wonder if there is more.

[jpl]

But how would they know which phone booth to show up at unless they read or wrote the note?

I'll bet that these clowns probably were the ones that left the note. The assassins are not interesting in extorting money. If they were, they would have made this known some time ago.

[lelio]

It sounds like the cops staked out that phonebooth, perhaps these jokers in the van used it before to make a tip line call and demand ransom?
My tinfoil hat theory is that the real sniper knew that these people were using this phone and wrote it down on the tarot card to get them busted.