The Latest: Man accused of rigging cameras shot by police
Source: Associated Press
The Latest: Man accused of rigging cameras shot by police
Updated 5:48 pm, Friday, August 12, 2016
HARLAN, Ky. (AP) The Latest on the shooting death of a man helping authorities search for trail cameras that they say he rigged with explosives in the Kentucky woods (all times local):
6:30 p.m.
Kentucky State Police say a fire investigator fatally shot a man during a confrontation with authorities while the man was helping them search for trail cameras that they say he rigged with explosives in the Kentucky woods.
State police Trooper Shane Jacobs says 39-year-old Mark Sawaf of Harlan tried to escape and was shot by Capt. Brad Dobrzynski, a Lexington Fire Department investigator, during the altercation Thursday evening.
Jacobs says a federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives special agent and an officer from the Lexington Police Departments hazardous devices unit were also involved.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/The-Latest-Man-accused-of-rigging-cameras-shot-9139925.php
Eugene
(61,948 posts)Source: Lexington Herald Leader
Man in custody killed trying to escape during officers search for explosives in woods
BY BILL ESTEP AND MORGAN EADS
HARLAN - A man shot and killed during a confrontation with authorities Thursday night in Harlan County was previously accused of concealing explosives in trail cameras and putting them in the woods.
Mark Sawaf, 39, of Harlan had been indicted by a federal grand jury in July and was scheduled to go to trial on Sept. 13, according to court documents. He was ordered to remain in custody until trial and was indicted on eight charges, including owning and making unregistered destructive devices.
Lexington Fire Department investigator Capt. Brad Dobrzynski shot Sawaf during the altercation, which occurred after Sawaf tried to escape, state police said. ATF Special Agent Todd Tremaine and Lt. Matt Greathouse of the Lexington Police Department hazardous devices unit were also involved in the altercation that broke out on a hill above Woodland Hills subdivision about 6:50 p.m.
ATF had received information that Sawaf had placed more explosives in the woods and had gone with him to find them, Kentucky State Police Trooper Shane Jacobs said Friday. ATF asked Lexington police and fire officials for help because of an expanded area that needed to be searched and the scale of the operation, state police said. The state police hazardous devices unit was also asked to assist.
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Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/counties/fayette-county/article95247102.html
Judi Lynn
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Judi Lynn
(160,623 posts)It should be interesting seeing what kind of story they fashion to cover their buttal areas.
randome
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ck4829
(35,091 posts)It seems interesting that a man who specializes in the treatment of mental illness and substance abuse makes bombs that can maim and kill and disperses them in his spare time.
randome
(34,845 posts)It may not be that odd, though. Health care professionals are prone to mental illness, too. I can easily see someone who is too close to the subject rationalizing away his own struggles.
But it sounds like a lot of people were involved in this so I'm betting he was authentically ill in some way.
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