From NEIN

Ralph “Bucky” Phillips, is a native american, who escaped from the Alden Correctional Facility in Erie County, NY last April. Since his escape, Phillips has stolen food, clothes, weapons, ammunition and vehicles from unattended homes and hunting cabins in western New York. He has received assistance from family and friends in rural Chautauqua County, NY where he is currently believed to be in hiding. He has also shot 3 police officers, including one NY State Trooper who died yesterday. There is a $225,000 reward for information leading to PHILLIPS’ arrest.

What you can do:

- Most importantly, we ask that anyone who has any knowledge of the location of PHILLIPS to contact any barracks of the NY State Police and immediately report this information. We do not want to lose any more of our heroes.

- If you live or work in the northwestern Pennsylvania or western New York area, please print and prominently post the WANTED poster (PDF file) from this link.

Please keep the police officers in your thoughts and prayers. Any cards, letters and well wishes you would like to extend to the family of Trooper Longobardo (deceased) and to Trooper Baker and his family can be sent to:

New York State Police, Troop A,
Fredonia Barracks
10274 Route 60
Fredonia, NY 14063

Ralph “Bucky” PHILLIPS is a Native American and is reported to be part of the “Six Nations” Tribe who are also the protesters at Caledonia, Ontario Canada. Click HERE to learn more about the problems and threats to our national security.

These guys in Canada are protesting and occupying the land at a partially-built housing project in Caledonia since February. They claim the land was wrongfully taken from them over 200 years ago.

Since that wanted poster pretty much sucks, here are a couple of other images of Bucky.

At the Washington Times there’s an interesting article here.

Phillips used a can opener to cut an opening in the kitchen ceiling of an Erie County jail and escaped through the roof in April. He’s been on the run ever since. The thing is…he was in the Erie County jail for a parole violation. Then the authorities were staked out outside Kasey Crowe’s house. Kasey Crowe is the mother of Phillips daughter, Patrina Wright. Patrina Wright allegedly went to her mom’s house to see her father with her children in tow. Family denies that Wright put Phillips’ grandchildren in danger, or that he was even at Crowe’s house, but nevertheless, authorities took the children away from Wright, one of whom is just three weeks old and is still breastfeeding. The children were returned to their father after about a week. Apparently this chain of events sent Phillips over the edge, according to his friend, Dan Suitor, who has known him for 25 years. “He’ll never surrender,” says Suitor. “I’ve always said it’ll be suicide by cop.”

Phillips is suspected of shooting Trooper Sean Brown near Elmira in southern New York this past June, and police said he has survived on the run by stealing about 15 vehicles and breaking into hunting camps and a gun shop.

Some in rural western New York had viewed the manhunt with amusement, but that changed after Thursday’s shootings.

“There has been a marked difference in the cooperation that we are receiving,” Bennett said.

Authorities say Phillips’ disdain for police was well known. He once allegedly left officials a note threatening “to splatter pig meat all over Chautauqua County.”

But state police said the threat now extended to the public.

“Clearly now, there can be no discussion about the fact that he is a dangerous person,” Bennett said, “and he’s a risk to everybody, law enforcement and non-law enforcement alike.”

At the state police barracks in Fredonia, Trooper Mark O’Donnell said Longobardo’s death did not change the way they viewed their mission to catch Phillips.

“You can’t be more determined,” O’Donnell said. “We were determined from the day he shot Sean Brown.”

About 100 state troopers attended a service for Longobardo on Sunday evening.

See the America’s Most Wanted website for their entry on Bucky Phillips.

One has to wonder why he would even have bothered to escape back in April when he only had about 4 more days in his sentence to serve before he was to be released.

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