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WASHINGTON - The man at the center of the investigation for the sniper shootings says he won't be at John Allen Muhammad's execution Tuesday night. "I don't think I will be personally interested. I have seen a lot of death and destruction and I don't think I am interested anymore," former Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose tells Channel 5. Moose was the face of law enforcement during those three terrifying weeks in October 2002. Muhammad is scheduled to be executed at 9 p.m. for the killing of Dean Harold Meyers at a Manassas gas station. Meyers is one of...

HONOLULU - The former Maryland police chief who headed the Washington-area sniper manhunt three years ago graduated as one of 40 new Honolulu police recruits. Charles Moose, 53, will hit the streets for patrol duty tomorrow morning alongside a police veteran. He graduated from the academy on Thursday. "It's been a long time since I've worked the street ... but it's exactly what I want to do over the next several years," he said. Moose led the task force that investigated the three-week shooting spree that left 10 people dead and terrorized the Washington area in 2002. John Muhammad and...

Say a prayer for the people of Honolulu. My former police chief, the utterly incompetent Charles "Still waiting for the white van" Moose, has resurfaced. (Hat tip: reader JB) According to WTOP News, he is now training to be a street officer in Hawaii. Charles Moose was at the forefront of the hunt for the snipers who terrorized the D.C. area, four years ago -- the former Montgomery County Police Chief was the public face of the regional task force that arrested John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo. Just before opening statements in Muhammad's sniper murder trial, Charles Moose...

WASHINGTON - Charles Moose, the former police chief who led the task force to capture the Washington-area snipers, is now serving in the National Guard. His wife, Sandy, said Moose is in San Antonio for the third month of a six-month active duty call-up as a major for the Air National Guard. She told The Washington Post that Moose is on special assignment studying non-lethal weapons. Moose resigned as Montgomery County police chief in 2003 amid criticism from county ethics officials that he was cashing in on his job by writing a book about the 2002 serial sniper case that...

Most 'spiked' stories of 2003 Posted: December 31, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Back in the old days of newspapering in America – when reporters and editors still used typewriters, pencils and paper to craft their stories – news articles were carried by copy boys from one editor to another. The couriers picked up the copy in one wire basket and brought it to a desk on another. At each stage of the article's development, there would be new scrutiny. Spelling would be checked. The writing would be reworked. Potential legal problems would be considered. Headlines would be...

Account of Sniper May Not Be True 39 minutes ago By STEPHEN MANNING, Associated Press Writer ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - A witness who described the Washington sniper, his assault rifle and his cream-colored van gave police a phony story, investigators said Thursday in a setback that casts doubt on much of what the public thought it knew about the roving killer. AP Photo (AP Video) Related Quotes HDDJIANASDAQ^SPC 29.158275.041272.29879.20 +0.70+239.01+39.87+19.18 delayed 20 mins - disclaimerQuote Data provided by Reuters Prosecutors said the witness could face charges. His name was not immediately released. Fairfax County police Lt. Amy Lubas said the inaccurate...