Police: Another possible Eric Frein sighting
PARADISE TWP., Pa. (WPVI) -- Action News has learned that Pennsylvania State Police say a law enforcement official possibly spotted accused cop killer Eric Frein earlier in the day Monday near a post office in the area.
That led officers to Matt Caprioli's home on Burton Road. Police dogs tracked a scent right to the man's back door.
Caprioli walked Action News through his yard just a couple of hours after truck-loads of police and federal agents searched his house.
"I didn't' know what to think. I thought he was in my house honestly. I thought they had him surrounded and he was in my house and that's what I thought so I let them in to let them get him if he was here," said Caprioli.
However Frein wasn't there.
"This is causing a lot of commotion. I know it's cost a lot of money and everything. They need to get him, they need to get him," said Caprioli.
This second possible sighting comes just days after a woman, who was out for a walk, saw a man who she believed was Frein. Police called the sighting 'highly credible.'
It happened Friday night near the woman's home not far from Pocono Mountain East High School, where Frein attended.
Speaking exclusively to Action News, the woman - who did not want her identity revealed, said "He was wearing a dark navy wool cap that was rolled up at the ends."
The man she saw was carrying a rifle and was standing by an empty house and an abandoned truck.
"He had actually turned towards me and that's where you could tell the mud on his face and the height he was based on the truck he was standing next to. You could clearly tell it was a gun, a rifle with a scope attached to it."
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Also on Monday, police said that the blood found in the ongoing search does not actually belong to Frein.
State Police said DNA testing ruled out any link to Frein. The blood droplets were found on a covered porch during the massive search in the Pocono Mountain.
Police say 'material' found on the back door of another home turned out to not be human blood.
While that clue turned out to be a dead-end, law enforcement officials say they are confident. Lt. Col. George Bivens said police have put a "tremendous amount of pressure on him."
Pocono Mountain East High School all other schools in the Pocono Mountain School District were open Monday, but took extra precautions in light of the sighting. After-school activities were canceled on Monday night however.
Additional officers from the Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department were stationed at the district's Swiftwater campus to supplement the lone police officer who normally patrols that location, which, in addition to the high school, includes a junior high and elementary school.
Frein has eluded hundreds of officers who have been tracking him for more than a month. He is charged in the Sept. 12 shooting that killed Cpl. Bryon Dickson and wounded Trooper Alex Douglass.
