Martial Law – ‘Shelter in place’ comes to NE PA over Police killer Frein

UPDATE: Saturday, September 20, 2014.

First Update; The Emergency Management System just issued a “Shelter in Place” for entire Monroe County, PA

A news blackout has taken place. Media is reporting heavy scanner activity. That is all anyone is getting. Even Twitter has gone pretty much silent after a flurry last night.Those listening to the Monroe County local and State police scanner activity online numbered over 22,000 at one point. Meanwhile, hundreds remain essentially locked out or locked in under threat of being arrested. Frein is getting exactly what he wanted. Good work.

Pennsylvania Police Lockdown Neighborhood Using Martial Law Type Techniques To Hunt For Cop Killer

Search continues in Barrett for Eric Frein this morning – 9/20/2014

At 7:45 a.m. this morning, state police are still asking all residents of Barrett and Price townships to state in indoors and away from windows. (Meanwhile, citizens are being threatened with arrest).

An evacuation center is in place and there are reports that residents who could not get to their homes either stayed at the center or slept in their cars last night as the search for Eric Frein continues in the Bear Town Road area off Route 447. Ed. How about our pets and medications?

Alleged trooper shooter Eric Frein cornered in Canadensis?

As police closed in on the Blue Ridge Drive neighborhood late Friday night, township residents had shut themselves up in their homes. Cole’s Pizza restaurant along Route 390, where reporters had hung out during another search Thursday night, was quiet except for a few firefighters coming in for coffee.

At 11:03 p.m. a Barrett police car driving north into Canadensis made an abrupt U-turn and sped south.

At midnight, the Monroe County 911 van packed up and left its post at the Barrett Township building. A man in the van said the crew was done for the night, but he didn’t know whether the police were done.

Rich Barry, one of the residents, said he was coming home from work in New York City at 7 p.m. when police stopped him at Route 447.

“I have a wife and a 2-year-old at home and I want to see them,” he said. “I wanted to try walking back home, but an officer told me they’d put me under arrest.”

At 3 a.m. Saturday, about 15 state police cars from the Montoursville and Towanda barracks crossed the roadblock at Route 447 and Bear Town Road and headed northeast on Bear Town Road toward Blue Ridge Drive.

Shelter in place issued for Barrett and Price Townships Pennsylvania State Police are asking all residents of Barrett and Price Townships to shelter in place immediately.

Canadensis, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Police in Pennsylvania appeared to be closing in Friday night on the suspect in the slaying of a state trooper.

Police have surrounded a home where Eric Matthew Frein is believed to be hiding, a local government official told CNN. The home, which was broken into, is not far from Frein’s family home in Canadensis, in the Poconos Mountains.

Police exchanged gunfire in the area with an individual believed to be Frein, the official said. Video over at

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