The nine-day hunt for Joseph Jakubowski, a Wisconsin fugitive accused of robbing a gun shop and mailing an anti-government manifesto that warned of future attacks to President Donald Trump, has come to an uneventful and peaceful end.
More than 150 law enforcement officers had been combing the state for any signs of Jakubowski for over a week after he was wanted for robbing a gun store on April 4th and sending a 161-page anti-government letter to the White House. Hundreds of tips and leads had come into authorities since NBC News reported a $10,000 reward was being offered to anyone that was able to point them in direction of where Jakubowski might be hiding out.
ABC News reports the search came to a halt after a local farmer that had been riding his four-wheeler in the area alerted authorities that a suspicious camper that matched Jakubowski’s description was refusing to leave his land. Police were able to quickly identify Jakubowski on arrival, then swooped in to arrest him before he was able to flee.
According to the ABC report, the farmer that reported that Jakubowski told authorities he asked him to leave the area, but he refused. The Police were then called to the scene where they surrounded the area Jakubowski was reported to have been camping in, then closed in on the site where they eventually found him. Although Jakubowski had reportedly stolen 18 guns in his April 4 heist, he did not use any of them in the process of his capture and was taken into custody without a fight.
According to the Associated Press, Jakubowski never acted in a threatening manner towards the farmer, and even chatted him up for over an hour. He briefly voiced his displeasure with society but never launched into a diatribe that came close to the material featured in the manifesto he sent to the President.
Jakubowski first came to public attention when Wisconsin police were made aware of a video in which he filmed himself dropping the now infamous manifesto into a mailbox while warning those who eventually received his letter that they “might want to read it.”
(Via ABC News, The Daily News, and AP)