Sunday, July 26, 2009
Edward Eugene Harper (photo: Natrona County Sheriff's Office)
The past week was a good one for the FBI, as agents captured two men on the bureau’s famed “10 Most Wanted” list. First, there was gang member Emigdio Preciado, Jr. (aka “Junior,” “Trigger,” “Spooky,” and “Snyper,”), who was apprehended in Mexico for allegedly firing on two Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputies in September 2000. The attack occurred in Whittier, when deputies Michael Schaap and David Timberlake tried to stop a van traveling with faulty headlights and came under automatic weapons fire. Schaap was severely injured from a bullet striking him in the forehead, while Timberlake avoided being shot. Preciado was identified as the shooter among the four men riding in the van.
The second fugitive, Edward Eugene Harper, 63, was apprehended on Friday in a remote area of Wyoming where the famed Butch Cassidy once hid out. The FBI had been searching for Harper for 15 years after he was accused of molesting young girls in Mississippi. Harper was tending sheep in the remote Big Horn Mountains, near Outlaw Canyon where Cassidy and the Hole in the Wall Gang used to hide in the late 19th century. A member of the Montana Freemen, a group known for committing domestic terrorism, Harper was said to have had numerous handguns and rifles in his truck when the FBI captured him without trouble.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
Edward Eugene Harper (FBI Most Wanted)
FBI Top Ten Fugitive and Reputed Los Angeles Gang Member Apprehended in Mexico for 2000 Automatic Weapon Attack on Two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies (FBI Los Angeles press release)
Emigdio Preciado Jr. (FBI Most Wanted)
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