Search For Two Suspects Scaled Back
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The scaled-back ground and air search continues
for two men accused of shooting a state trooper, but authorities
acknowledge they may have left the Ozark Mountains area by now.
Mark Holsombach and William Frazier disappeared after a gunfight
with ten to 15 state and local officers on Monday. Police
surrounded their property of shanties and thought they were inside.
Ten hours later, they entered a cabin they had been tear-gassing to
find they were gone.
For more than four days, state police said they were confident
the fugitives were still in the area because they had been tracking
vehicle traffic.
But today, Van Buren County Sheriff Scott Bradley said
authorities simply don`t know if the men are still in the
treacherous, heavily wooded area near Alread.
