MILWAUKEE (AP) — A fugitive accused of stealing numerous weapons from a Wisconsin gun store and sending an anti-government manifesto to the White House has been arrested after nine days on the run, sheriff’s officials said Friday.
Joseph Allen Jakubowski was found Thursday night in Vernon County, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) northwest of Janesville, his hometown, according to the Rock County Sheriff’s Office.
More than 150 law enforcement officials had been searching for Jakubowski, 32, since April 4 when authorities say he broke into a gun store in Janesville, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) southwest of Milwaukee.
The Rock County Sheriff’s Office says Jakubowski wrote a 161-page manifesto in which he detailed a long list of grievances against the government and spoke of plans to launch attacks with the 18 firearms he allegedly stole.
Before the manhunt, the sheriff’s office says Jakubowski filmed a video of himself dropping his manifesto, addressed to President Donald Trump, into a mailbox and speaking of a “revolution.” He warned in the video that whoever received the manifesto “might want to read it.”
Jakubowski has had several run-ins with law enforcement, most for traffic violations. But police say he previously resisted arrest and once tried to disarm an officer.
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He thought disguising himself as a shark would fool the cops. What a knucklehead.
Thank goodness he was caught before he could anything really stupid. Outta the gene pool, loser! Your fifteen minutes are up.
I see that he’s from Janesville. Are the authorities SURE they did not pick up the wrong whack job? Just asking.
A heavily armed, cranky, whack-job white guy hiding out in central Wisconsin?
Talk about blending into the crowd. It’s a miracle they caught him.
Soon that refrain will fit every public and private venue across all the U.S. Hospitals, movie theaters, restaurants, sports arenas, city and state legislative offices and chambers, court rooms, public parks, amusement parks. The NRA won’t stop until there are literally zero restrictions on where you can openly brandish a semi-automatic assault weapon. And there’s no turning back. SCOTUS is prepped to be stamped heavily conservative until every person on this board is old and gray or dead in the grave.