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Manhunt resumes for gunman in Utah ranger shooting

MOAB, Utah (AP) - Searchers planned to brave an icy blast of winter as they hunt near Moab for a man believed to have shot a Utah park ranger last week.

Grand County Sheriff Jim Nyland says more than 160 officers will ramp up the search again Tuesday, despite a blizzard warning across the state.

Nyland says officials think 40-year-old Lance Leeroy Arellano (air-ee-AH'-no) was wounded in the shootout late Friday with park ranger Brody Young and hasn't escaped the rugged red rock search area.

The 34-year-old Young was wounded in the arm, leg and stomach area. He underwent surgery over the weekend and was in serious condition at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo.

I hope this NOT close to anyone on ranchers.... If so please stay vigilant and safe....
 
Northern Rancher said:
You could hide out there for a longgg time if you know what your doing.
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NR, you'd know the guy's name that hid out from the mounties for quite awhile in the 70s (?), eventually killed by them, when they found him. what was his name? there was a book written about it.
 
hypocritexposer said:
Northern Rancher said:
You could hide out there for a longgg time if you know what your doing.
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NR, you'd know the guy's name that hid out from the mounties for quite awhile in the 70s (?), eventually killed by them, when they found him. what was his name? there was a book written about it.
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D.B Cooper? :???:
 
hayguy said:
the mad trapper of rat river?
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That's him. I was a bit off in my years. That's the guy I was thinking of, but I also think their was a guy in the 70's, that I was confusing him with.


The Mad Trapper of Rat River
http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/NWT/madtrapper.htm

The dynamite was thrown into the structure and a massive explosion ripped the roof clean off with one of the walls caving in.

As the Mounties entered the cabin to remove the corpse, Johnson stood up from a fox hole he dug firing 2 weapons narrowly missing both officers. A hasty retreat was in order again. After a 15 hr siege and food starting to run low they returned to Aklavik to contemplate their next move.
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This guy appears to be just your regular, run of the mill whack job. He has a long criminal history, no job and apparently decided shooting a park ranger was a good idea. I hope they get him and nobody else gets hurt in the process. He was wounded and might be deceased. Prayers go out to the park ranger and his family.
 
The guy in the mid70's was Wilfred Stanley Robinson-my Mom and Dad were travelling through that area the night he shot the mounties. He stole the police car after he killed them. My Dad said the mountie at the first roadblock said 'If you don't stop for a police car we might shoot you but if he stops you he will shoot you'. Mom and Dad were pretty alert travellers the rest of the night-they just found him dead in the bush on toward spring.
 
You forget the Olympian athlete Swenson case of 25 years ago where she was kidnapped on Lone Mountain near Big Sky (in Gallatin County) by old man Nichols and his son and the next day the volunteer rescuers that went looking for her were fired upon- and one killed by the 22-250 the old man was a crack shot with-- and the subsequent multi county almost 6 month manhunt in the mountains that took place over multiple counties...

My old rodeo compadre- Johnny France during college days- a saddle bronc rider- who also became Sheriff of Madison County- was who finally captured them- single handed tracking them down in the middle of winter....


December 14, 1986|TAD BARTIMUS | Associated Press
Within hours of Swenson's disappearance, France was on the case, along with Sheriff John Onstad from neighboring Gallatin County. They did not know what had happened to the pretty young woman, but France guessed a grizzly bear might be involved. They decided to hold off a search until dawn.

Searcher Killed

The next morning, two volunteer searchers, Alan Goldstein and Jim Schwalbe, stumbled into the Nichols' camp. Swenson shouted a warning. The younger Nichols' gun went off. Swenson took a bullet in the chest. The elder Nichols fired at Goldstein's head. The searcher died instantly. Schwalbe ran for help.


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The two mountain men fled into the tangled woods, and the long hunt began.

Swenson was airlifted to safety, seriously injured. In time, she recovered.

Journalists from television networks, wire services and big city newspapers swooped in. A command post was set up, and Onstad, France, the state police and federal authorities plotted strategy.

But it was .44 magnum-toting Johnny France who captured the attention of the press and the imagination of TV viewers.

Onstad came from nearby Bozeman, a college town of nearly 19,000, and had a force of a couple dozen deputies. He used helicopters and sophisticated equipment. He was cautious with his news releases.

Rodeo Champion

Virginia City was France's headquarters. It had a population of 150. His annual salary was $19,000. He had seven deputies to patrol an area two-thirds the size of Connecticut. His silver belt buckle proclaimed him the Montana Rodeo Assn.'s bareback champion of 1967. And he was always congenially available to reporters.

France talked about psyching out his quarry, about how he was reared in the same rugged country, about his tenacity.

"In my own way, I'm a mountain man too," France told reporters eager for his quotes. "It will take one to catch one. I'll get them."

The SWAT teams and tracking dogs and deputies on horseback did not get the job done. The search was called off. Fall came, then winter.

"The taxpayers were tired of the expense. And I was tired of walking into Bettie's Cafe (in Ennis) and getting all the questions: 'Johnny, do you think they're still up there?' 'Johnny, why don't you give up?' 'Johnny, don't you think they'll freeze to death and a hunter'll find them?' "

For five months, the "Incident at Big Sky," as France later called his book, was a loose end in his life. He didn't like loose ends, hadn't had many since his mother died when he was 4.

Father Was a Drifter.
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Father was an old time cowboy- and would put the shame to most the BS political posters on this site....... :D
 
Sounds like a good story OT, but I'm not sure I'd buy the book after learning that your buddy, France, is a BSer.



LeaninH?

If the guy is a wilderness wannabe, I still say let him either freeze, or starve. You're probablly correct that he is already dead if wounded. What's the weather like in that neck....
 
hypocritexposer said:
hayguy said:
the mad trapper of rat river?
Click to expand...

That's him. I was a bit off in my years. That's the guy I was thinking of, but I also think their was a guy in the 70's, that I was confusing him with.


The Mad Trapper of Rat River
http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/NWT/madtrapper.htm

The dynamite was thrown into the structure and a massive explosion ripped the roof clean off with one of the walls caving in.

As the Mounties entered the cabin to remove the corpse, Johnson stood up from a fox hole he dug firing 2 weapons narrowly missing both officers. A hasty retreat was in order again. After a 15 hr siege and food starting to run low they returned to Aklavik to contemplate their next move.
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We used to have a poster on ranchers that figured he was related to him.
He was thought to a Johnson from just over in North Dakota
 
Big Muddy rancher said:
hypocritexposer said:
hayguy said:
the mad trapper of rat river?
Click to expand...

That's him. I was a bit off in my years. That's the guy I was thinking of, but I also think their was a guy in the 70's, that I was confusing him with.


The Mad Trapper of Rat River
http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/NWT/madtrapper.htm

The dynamite was thrown into the structure and a massive explosion ripped the roof clean off with one of the walls caving in.

As the Mounties entered the cabin to remove the corpse, Johnson stood up from a fox hole he dug firing 2 weapons narrowly missing both officers. A hasty retreat was in order again. After a 15 hr siege and food starting to run low they returned to Aklavik to contemplate their next move.
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We used to have a poster on ranchers that figured he was related to him.
He was thought to a Johnson from just over in North Dakota
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BSE Tester? no wait, he wasn't from North Dakota . . .
 
katrina said:
Manhunt resumes for gunman in Utah ranger shooting

MOAB, Utah (AP) - Searchers planned to brave an icy blast of winter as they hunt near Moab for a man believed to have shot a Utah park ranger last week.

Grand County Sheriff Jim Nyland says more than 160 officers will ramp up the search again Tuesday, despite a blizzard warning across the state.

Nyland says officials think 40-year-old Lance Leeroy Arellano (air-ee-AH'-no) was wounded in the shootout late Friday with park ranger Brody Young and hasn't escaped the rugged red rock search area.

The 34-year-old Young was wounded in the arm, leg and stomach area. He underwent surgery over the weekend and was in serious condition at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo.

I hope this NOT close to anyone on ranchers.... If so please stay vigilant and safe....
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Crazy!

My high school classmate posted on Facebook that he was the surgeon who put Young back together.

Hope nobody else gets hurt :?
 
Remember Claude Dallas? Originally from Virginia and always wanted to be out west. The Idaho game warden caught him in camp and then the gunfight ensued. He stayed hid out for months. When they finally captured him, he escaped and was on the run again. I think they found him in LA or some big city. Wish I could remember more, but I think it was in the late '70s or early '80s.
 

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