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CNN
6 days ago
- CNN
Why the manhunt for a Montana mass shooting suspect has proven exceedingly difficult
Crime Gun violence FacebookTweetLink Stymied by treacherous terrain and untamed wilderness, authorities are struggling to find an Army veteran suspected of killing four people at a Montana bar last week. Investigators say Michael Paul Brown, 45, vanished Friday after gunning down a bartender and three patrons at The Owl Bar in Anaconda – a community of less than 10,000 people nestled between the dense forests and formidable mountains of western Montana. Among the countless potential hideouts: Garrity Mountain, a popular hiking and camping site lined with cabins for outdoor enthusiasts. As of Tuesday, the Garrity Mountain Wildlife Management Area remained closed 'until further notice' due to public safety concerns and an ongoing law enforcement presence, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks said. But it's not just the challenging landscape impeding Brown's capture. 'That mountain is gigantic,' said Anaconda resident Dan Haffey, a former fire foreman for the Montana Division of Forestry whose team cut trails for hikers. 'There's a thousand places to hide on that mountain.' And Brown fled in a sparsely populated area with fewer authorities, one official said, essentially giving him a head start while partnering law enforcement agencies were brought in from around the state. An array of local, state and federal authorities have joined in the manhunt, including the FBI, the Granite County Sheriff's Office and the Denver office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. But many of them had to travel to the manhunt, giving Brown more time to get away. Denver is about 600 miles from Anaconda. Over the weekend, authorities had about '250 boots on the ground' searching for Brown, along with air and ground resources from other states and federal agencies, Montana's attorney general said Sunday. But he said that number would be reduced as the search shifts to a 'fugitive location operation.' A $10,000 reward is available for information leading to Brown's capture. But four days after the killings, Brown still hasn't been found. 'There's a lot of land, and not a lot of people,' said Dan Brunner, a former agent at the FBI's field office in Bozeman, Montana. 'So there's not a lot of civilians that will be looking out their window looking for a suspicious person,' Brunner said. 'This man could easily hide for multiple, multiple weeks if he had resources prepared for himself.' Brown has already been resourceful in his escape. Even though surveillance footage showed him fleeing in his underwear shortly after the killings, authorities believe he collected fresh supplies from a white Ford F-150 pickup truck. 'It was a stolen vehicle, but there was camping equipment in it. We believe there was some clothing in it,' Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said. 'So at this point, we have every reason to believe the suspect is fully clothed, shoes on his feet, able to get around.'
CNN
6 days ago
- CNN
Suspect arrested in killings of abandoned Tennessee baby's relatives
Crime Extreme temperaturesFacebookTweetLink Follow Following a weeklong manhunt across rural northwest Tennessee, law enforcement have arrested Austin Robert Drummond, the suspect in the killings of four relatives of a baby who was found abandoned but alive in Tennessee's sweltering heat last week, according to Jackson, Tennessee, police. Drummond was caught in a wooded area Tuesday morning after being spotted by residents, according to a senior law enforcement official. He was taken into custody shortly after 8 a.m. CT, the official said. This is a developing story and will be updated. CNN's Hanna Park, Rebekah Riess, Gene Norman and Taylor Romine contributed to this report.
Spectator
28-07-2025
- Politics
- Spectator
Questions remain about Farage's crime crackdown
As Keir Starmer prepared to meet Donald Trump at his Scottish golf course this afternoon, Nigel Farage kept himself busy with another 'Lawless Britain' press conference in London. ('I had dinner with Donald Trump Junior the other week,' he said to reporters asking if he had been able to secure an audience with the US President.) Social media dominated. Reform's new police and crime adviser, retired detective Colin Sutton, told attendees: 'We need to refocus what police are doing onto homes and streets – not posts and tweets.' The latest addition to the Reform outfit will stand as a candidate in the next general election and in the meantime use his experience to help shape the party's crime policy. Sutton made his name after leading high-profile investigations into serial killers and rapists – with the ITV series 'Manhunt' retelling his time in the force. Another 'celebrity' hire by the party, Sutton now wants to go into politics. 'I [am] known as a detective,' he told reporters. 'I'd rather be known as a leader.' What does he want to change? Sutton says that while Reform's current ambition to increase police numbers by 30,000 is admirable, he also wants to open at least 300 'front counter police buildings'. Police need to 're-engage', and become 'more visible'. He wants to speak to those involved in public order policing, to learn more about how different protest groups behave. A former Conservative member, Sutton was scathing of how the police force has operated in recent years: 'It has been captured by a liberal ideology, and people are too scared of bucking against that ideology… Two-tier policing, two-tier criminal justice system is one phrase that's been bandied about a lot. I don't think it's an unfair thing to say.' As reported by the Daily Mail, Sutton is supportive of scrapping some hate crime laws – suggesting that online abuse could be 'treated like a watered-down version of defamation'. He added: 'Then you can sue in the civil court. Don't give them legal aid and see how many feelings are hurt then.' The unveiling of Sutton as the latest addition to the expanding Reform team comes as the Online Safety Act comes into force, with social media platforms now having a legal duty to protect children online. Zia Yusuf, former party chair and now head of its Doge unit, didn't hold back when he attacked the new law – and promised to repeal it if Reform gets into government. 'We think this is the greatest assault on freedom of speech in our lifetimes,' he fumed. 'Any student of history will know that the way countries slip into this sort of authoritarian regime is through legislation that cloaks tyranny inside the warm fuzzies of safety and security and hope nobody reads the small print.' Republican pundit Ann Coulter enjoyed a front-row seat to the event, with a Reform official advising she was attending as a 'friend of the party'. More Americans will arrive on British shores shortly, with Vice President JD Vance due to visit in early August. 'It will be very interesting to see what his take on this legislation is,' Farage said. The law is on The Donald's radar too, with the President in Scotland replying to a journalist: 'Well, free speech is very important and I don't know if you're referring to any place in particular,' before turning, as Freddy Gray writes, rather impishly to Starmer. The issue wasn't pressed but the act, while broadly popular with the British public, will stir up discontent across the water – especially with free speech-loving Twitter CEO Elon Musk who, despite their differences, Farage described as a 'hero'. Turning to Gaza, Farage insisted a Palestinian state should not be recognised but sent a warning to the Israeli prime minister: 'I think you've got to say to Netanyahu, stop losing friends the way you are.' There remain a number of unanswered questions regarding the details of Farage's crime crackdown. Journalists have pointed out that, according to the Crime Survey of England and Wales (CSEW), violent crime has plummeted since 2010. This survey is seen by the Office for National Statistics as the more accurate metric of long-term crime trends, yet Farage insisted at the start of today's press conference that crime rates are increasing and 'as far as we're concerned, [the CSEW] is pretty much discredited as a means of measuring crime'. It is unclear exactly how Reform plans to pay its new promises, though Farage was keen to nod towards 'big cuts to public spending', portraying himself more as a Javier Milei devotee. And on the Online Safety Act, while both Yusuf and Farage agreed that Reform wanted to protect children, they do not currently have an alternative answer to the legislation. Yusuf talked earlier about how Reform read the small print – but the party could do with providing more too.
New York Times
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Manhunt,' ‘Cleaner' and More Streaming Gems
'Manhunt' (2017) Stream it on Netflix. John Woo has never been shy about the influence of Alfred Hitchcock on his work — the central conflict in his 'Mission: Impossible II' is a direct lift from 'Notorious' — and this fast-paced thriller uses the classic Hitch setup of an innocent man wrongly accused. The protagonist Du Qiu (Zhang Hanyu) isn't a typical Woo man of action; he's a corporate lawyer who finds himself framed for the murder of a mysterious woman after a brief romantic encounter. The ensuing pursuit is a worthy container for Woo's crisp, energetic style, his memorable compositions (including an unforgettable image of a pool of blood spreading across a white wedding dress), and his signature visuals: ingenious shootouts, copious slow motion, motorcycles galore and (of course) lots of doves. 'Cleaner' (2025) Stream it on HBO Max. We've seen so many ''Die Hard' on a ____' movies that it was probably inevitable that they'd circle back to ''Die Hard' in a building.' That's the setup for this action thriller from the director Martin Campbell (who rebooted the Bond series twice, with 'Goldeneye' and 'Casino Royale'), in which a window cleaner (a muscular Daisy Ridley) is outside a London skyscraper when environmental terrorists crash an energy company's celebratory gala and take its execs and employees hostage. 'Cleaner' draws on many of the narrative beats of its inspiration, but also subverts them in unexpected ways — particularly in its use of Clive Owen as the Alan Rickman-style erudite villain. The primary draw, however, is Ridley, whose character is no mere window cleaner but a 'classic unstable ex-soldier.' She thus proves a more than credible action hero, particularly when she finally gets to let loose and break some necks in the fast-paced third act. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Scottish Sun
31-05-2025
- Scottish Sun
Legendary TV detective reveals unsolved Scots case that still haunts him
A COP who snared serial killer Levi Bellfield and was portrayed by Martin Clunes on telly has revealed an unsolved Scots case still haunts him. DCI Colin Sutton, 64, solved more than 30 murders during his legendary career with The Met and rarely failed to find justice for victims and their families. 4 Colin Sutton still hopes to find justice for families who don't have answers. 4 Private James Collinson died while stationed at the Royal Logistic Corps headquarters. Credit: PA 4 Sutton helped catch serial killer Levi Bellfield. Credit: PA 4 Martin Clunes as DCI Colin Sutton in Manhunt. Credit: ITV The detective was an integral part of the operation that nailed evil Bellfield, 57 — now serving two whole life terms for the murders of Marsha McDonnell, Amelie Delagrange and schoolgirl Milly Dowler. But it was the unsolved death of army recruit James Collinson, from Perth, who was shot dead at Deepcut Barracks in Surrey aged 17, that the top cop regrets not solving. Colin, whose incredible detective work was turned into ITV series Manhunt starring Doc Martin favourite Clunes, 63, said: 'When I was working in Surrey Police in the early 2000s, I started the reinvestigation into the death of four soldiers at Deepcut Barracks. 'It's a difficult situation. We were never able to prove one way or the other conclusively what had happened. And part of that was because the original investigation really was so poorly done. 'There are various parents now that have gone to their graves not knowing what happened to their son or daughter. 'And that's what you want to try to save, it's not always about nailing somebody and banging somebody up behind bars. 'Sometimes there's a kind of a justice — I never say closure, because I don't think it exists — but you can give some sort of peace to victims' families or at least help them to learn how to live with the loss better if they know exactly what happened and they feel that justice has been done.' Collinson was one of four teenagers to die from shootings at the base between 1995 and 2002. Privates Sean Benton and Cheryl James lost their lives in 1995, followed by Pte Geoff Gray in 2001 and the young Scot a year later when he was found with a single gunshot wound to the head during a routine guard duty shift. A fifth victim, Pte Anthony Bartlett, was only revealed two decades after his death from an alleged drug overdose. Three more women claiming to be Levi Bellfield victims come forward after ITV Manhunt, detective Colin Sutton, played by Martin Clunes, reveals An inquest into Collinson's death ended with an open verdict and his parents finally dropped calls for an inquiry in 2020 due to the emotional strain. Colin added: 'There were a lot of assumptions made, assumptions of suicide. And it might be that they were suicides. I'm not saying they weren't. 'But there's a difference between them being suicides and proving that they were suicides. The non-commissioned officers (NCOs) were lending money at ridiculous rates of interest to the young recruits. And when they couldn't pay it back, because they were 17 years old and hopeless at managing their budgets, they could make life hell for them. 'And I think that got to the stage where it made life such hell for some of them that they saw that as the only way out. 'I think that's the most likely answer to what went on. But I can't put my hand on my heart and say the evidence was there to prove that because the initial steps that were taken in the investigation didn't preserve those things that might have been proved wrong. 'Without being conspiratorial about it, you had two big, powerful organisations — the British Army and the British Police Service. 'When you've got big organisations like that, they tend to close ranks and they tend to try to sort of make things go away. I think there was an element of that, which was what riled me enough to want to carry on talking about it.' The first TV series of Manhunt, screened in 2019, focused on Bellfield's arrest in 2004 on suspicion of the murder of Delagrange and the painstaking efforts to charge him with the subsequent killings. Meanwhile, the second instalment was an account of the ex-cop's efforts in apprehending 'Night Stalker' rapist Delroy Grant in 2009 after a 17-year terror spree. Colin then fronted his own documentary series called The Real Manhunter where he looked back at his most important cases and how they were solved. The crime expert will now be taking his incredible tales on tour — with his Makings of a Murderer 2 gigs coming to Glasgow's Pavilion Theatre on June 2 and Dunfermline's Alhambra Theatre on June 12. And he still can't believe people are so keen to hear such grisly stories from his career. He said: 'It's overwhelming, the amount of interest there is. It all started just because I wanted to write a book about the Bellfield investigation because I thought my team had done so well that it would all get lost in history if nobody wrote it down. 'I think it gives people a safe window into a world they know exists but don't want to be part of. 'The interesting thing for me about it is when I first started doing true crime stuff, I wasn't entirely happy with the way that it was done. It was done in a bit of a sensationalist way. It was a bit sort of perpetrator-focused. 'I really thought that it would be much better if we were to focus on victims, on the officers and on the investigations. And that can be just as interesting, just as enthralling, but it doesn't give the kind of attention and publicity to these horrible people that do it.' And while Colin isn't sure whether Clunes will attend any of his tour dates, he's counting on those in attendance to keep asking the big questions. He added: 'The tour is so much fun. It's hard work because I'm all over the place and driving lots and lots of miles. 'But when you're writing a book or making TV, there's no audience. Whereas now I've got real-life people who are reacting to the things I'm saying. And the best part for me is, I do the sort of meet and greet at the end and I get to talk to people and they ask me questions. 'There's absolutely no doubt many of the people in the audience have a far more wide-ranging knowledge about true crime than I do. 'I know a lot about my cases and about the cases that I've made programmes about, but their knowledge is phenomenal and that comes through when they speak to you.' The Makings of a Murderer 2 is at Glasgow's Pavilion Theatre on June 2, for and for the June 12 show at Dunfermline's Alhambra Theatre, log onto
