The Secret Service said it had no information on Joekel and directed the Kansas sheriff’s office to the Terrorism Screening Center in Washington, D.C. Secret Service headquarters after he developed information that Joekel possibly had made a threat against President Obama. Joekel fled on foot and eluded a massive manhunt involving state and local police agencies in Kansas and Nebraska, Ackerman said.Īckerman said that during the manhunt he called the U.S. Tim Ackerman, the undersheriff in Marshall County, told Hatewatch that the pursuit ended when Joekel crashed the pickup truck he was driving into a private residence and fled. Joekel is wanted in Marshall County, Kan., for “multiple felony charges” contained in a warrant issued last year after a police chase involving the Marysville, Kan., police department and Marshall County sheriff’s deputies. The sheriff said he didn’t know what kind of drugs were involved. 1, 2011, charges Joekel with conspiracy, resisting arrest, and possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance. The sheriff said the warrant, issued Sept. “We have an active warrant for his arrest,” Gage County Sheriff Millard “Gus” Gustafson told Hatewatch when he was reached in Beatrice, Neb. Joekel is wanted on state charges in both Nebraska and Kansas, Hatewatch learned today. Other law enforcement sources indicated that Joekel also may have ties to the sovereign citizen movement. That search turned up four rifles, ammunition and handguns, but it wasn’t immediately clear if arrests were made. “But these people run together and think together, so it’s likely the others have those leanings, too.”ĭavidson said that Smith identified himself as a sovereign citizen last November when he was served with a search warrant by officers in Robertson County, Tenn. “The intelligence information we got is that Terry Lyn Smith is one of those sovereign citizens,” Davidson said. A fifth suspect, a woman, is also in custody but hasn’t been publicly identified. Robert Davidson of the DeSoto, La, Parish, who spoke with Hatewatch today. Joekel, Terry Lyn Smith, and Smith’s sons, Brian and Derrick Smith, who have lived in Tennessee and Louisiana, according to Lt. The suspects arrested so far in the unfolding investigation are Kyle D. The sheriff said his department is receiving calls and e-mails from throughout the nation. The two wounded deputies “are recovering and are in good spirits,” Tregre said. Two other officers, Jason Triche, 30, and Michael Boyington, 33, were wounded in an exchange of gunfire with the suspects and are hospitalized, according to various media reports. The deputies who were killed near Laplace, La., were identified as Brandon Nielsen, 34, and Jeremy Triche, 27. There were “multiple scenes, multiple gunshots, multiple weapons” involved, Edmonson said.Įdmonson said that although charges haven’t been filed yet, there’s more than enough evidence to bring felony counts against five of the suspects who were in a vehicle when the first deputy was fired upon. Mike Edmonson told reporters at a press conference this afternoon that his investigators were still piecing together the sequence of events that led to the fatal shootings. Two of the suspects were wounded in the shoot-out. When they knocked on the door of a trailer, a person exited the trailer and opened fired with an assault rifle, killing two deputies and wounding another. Officers tracked a car seen speeding away from the site to a nearby trailer park. According to news report, the incident began early Friday morning when a gunman fired shots that wounded an off-duty deputy providing security at a parking lot used by refinery workers in an industrial area west of New Orleans.
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