Man Who Sent Manifesto to Donald…

Photo A team in tactical gear approached a home in Janesville, Wis., last week as part of a 10-day manhunt for Joseph A. Jakubowski. Mr. Jakubowski was captured Friday morning in Rock County. Credit Angela Major/The Janesville Gazette, via Associated Press A man suspected of stealing firearms, threatening churches, setting his vehicle on fire and writing a 161-page antigovernment manifesto to President Trump has been captured in Wisconsin after a 10-day manhunt.The sheriff’s office of Rock County, Wis., said that Joseph A. Jakubowski, 32, was arrested early Friday morning.Sheriff Robert Spoden of Rock County said Mr. Jakubowski had been camping near the border separating Vernon and Richland Counties.“He appeared to be very disheveled and dirty and obviously had been outdoors…
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Joseph Jakubowski, accused of sending manifesto…

April 14 (Reuters) – A Wisconsin man accused of stealing an arsenal of weapons from a gun shop and sending an anti-government manifesto to President Donald Trump has been arrested after a massive manhunt, authorities said on Friday. Joseph Jakubowski, 32, was taken into custody on Friday morning after being located overnight in Southwest Wisconsin, where he appeared to be camping in a rural area, the Rock County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. The weeks-long hunt for Jakubowski began after the April 4 break-in at Armageddon Supplies, a gun shop in the suspect’s hometown of Janesville, about 70 miles (113 km) southwest of Milwaukee, in Rock County. The theft netted 18 guns and two silencers, according to a criminal…
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Fugitive who mailed antigovernment manifesto to…

Churches in Janesville, Wis., closed their doors on Sunday, April 9, as the hunt for Joseph A. Jakubowki, a man who mailed a manifesto to President Trump, continues. Jakubowski is considered to be armed and dangerous and thought to have anti-religious views. (Reuters) A man accused of stealing numerous guns in connection with a possible plan for an attack has been captured in Wisconsin following a 10-day manhunt, authorities said. Joseph Jakubowski, 32, was taken into custody early Friday morning after authorities responded to a call about a suspicious person on a farmer’s property in Readstown, Wis., authorities said in a statement. Joseph Jakubowski. (Rock County Sheriff’s Office) Local, state and federal law enforcement had been searching for Jakubowski, who authorities suspected…
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Wisconsin man accused of sending manifesto…

(Reuters) – A Wisconsin man accused of stealing an arsenal of weapons from a gun shop and sending an anti-government manifesto to President Donald Trump has been arrested after a massive manhunt, the Rock County Sheriff’s Office said on Friday. Joseph Jakubowski, 32, was taken into custody on Friday morning after being located overnight in Southwest Wisconsin, where he appeared to be camping in the rural area, the sheriff said in a statement. (This story corrects to show suspect arrested on Friday, not Thursday) (Reporting By Barbara Goldberg in New York; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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Joseph Jakubowski, wanted in weapons thefts,…

DEVELOPING –  Joseph Jakubowski, the Wisconsin man accused of stealing more than a dozen guns and sending a threatening 161-page manifesto to President Trump, has been arrested after a manhunt that stretched on for more than a week, investigators confirmed on Friday. #BREAKING: pic.twitter.com/eZqY4m1s9P— Jessob Reisbeck (@jessob_reisbeck) April 14, 2017 Police caught him in the southwestern Wisconsin village of Viola, Fox 6 reported. Jakubowski, 32, stole 18 guns from a store near Janesville on April 4 before he apparently torched his car and vanished, police said. The anti-government manifesto bearing his name showed his hatred for religion and a desire to carry out unspecified attacks. Days after the manhunt began, a separate letter mailed by someone claiming to be Jakubowski threatened…
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Report: Wisconsin fugitive manifesto said ‘We…

A fugitive accused of stealing numerous weapons from a Wisconsin gun store sent an anti-government manifesto to the White House that deemed the government a band of terrorists controlled by churches, saying “We need to spill their blood,” a Milwaukee television station reported Thursday. Joseph Allen Jakubowski has been the subject of an intense manhunt since the April 4 burglary at Armageddon Supplies near Janesville, a city about 60 miles southwest of Milwaukee. Police said video shows Jakubowski mailed a bulky envelope the same day, and his burned vehicle was found near the store, but that he hasn’t been seen since. WTMJ-TV posted 35 pages of handwritten documents to its website that it said were verified as Jakubowski’s writings by…
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Report: Fugitive manifesto said ‘We need…

JANESVILLE, Wis. –  A fugitive accused of stealing numerous weapons from a Wisconsin gun store sent an anti-government manifesto to the White House that deemed the government a band of terrorists controlled by churches, saying “We need to spill their blood,” a Milwaukee television station reported Thursday. Joseph Allen Jakubowski has been the subject of an intense manhunt since the April 4 burglary at Armageddon Supplies near Janesville, a city about 60 miles southwest of Milwaukee. Police said video shows Jakubowski mailed a bulky envelope the same day, and his burned vehicle was found near the store, but that he hasn’t been seen since. WTMJ-TV posted 35 pages of handwritten documents to its website that it said were verified as…
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Family urges Wisconsin fugitive who sent…

U.S. News & World ReportFamily urges Wisconsin fugitive who sent manifesto to Trump to surrenderABC NewsThe stepfather of Joseph Jakubowski, the fugitive accused of robbing a Wisconsin gun shop and sending a manifesto to President Donald Trump, hopes that his stepson does the “right thing” and turns himself in. Jakubowski’s stepfather, Don McClean, also …The Latest: Reward increased in manhunt for Wisconsin manWashington PostWisconsin manhunt: Police aware suspect may try suicide-by-copFox Newsall 626 news articles »
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Stepfather of Wisconsin gun theft suspect…

The estranged stepfather of a Wisconsin man suspected of stealing guns and threatening attacks in an anti-government manifesto sent to the White House on Tuesday urged the fugitive to surrender.Don McLean said his stepson, Joseph Jakubowski, has never had a good relationship with police and that he and his wife are concerned for his safety. “We just want him to give up. There’s no good ending to this except him giving up,” McLean, 54, told The Associated Press during an interview Tuesday in which he repeatedly pleaded for his stepson to surrender.More than 150 state and federal law enforcement officers have been searching for the 32-year-old Jakubowski since April 4, when they believe he took 18 firearms from a gun…
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Manhunt in Wisconsin for Man Who…

Photo Residents in Janesville, Wis., are being warned to look out for Joseph A. Jakubowski, who robbed a gun shop and sent a manifesto to President Trump. Credit Angela Major/The Janesville Gazette, via Associated Press A nearly weeklong manhunt continued on Monday for a Wisconsin man the authorities suspect of robbing a gun shop, setting his own station wagon on fire, espousing broad revolution and mailing a threatening manifesto to President Trump.The Rock County Sheriff’s Department in Janesville, Wis., said that it was searching for Joseph A. Jakubowski, 32, in connection with the burglary on April 4 of more than a dozen firearms from Armageddon Supplies, a local gun store.Mr. Jakubowski “has been highly agitated recently regarding a variety of…
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