http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,56616,00.html?tw=wn_ascii FBI 'Nets' Cop-Killer Suspect By Associated Press Page 1 of 1 08:15 AM Nov. 27, 2002 PT CONCORD, New Hampshire -- A fugitive suspected of killing a California police officer in a crusade against police brutality has been captured after confessing to the murder in postings to an alternative news media website. Andrew McCrae, 23, walked out of a hotel room Tuesday after several hours of negotiations. He is charged with killing officer David Mobilio in Red Bluff, California, on Nov. 19. Shortly before he gave up, authorities granted McCrae's request to talk to a Concord Monitor reporter who was in the lobby. Reporter Sarah Vos said the first thing McCrae told her in a phone conversation was, "I killed a police officer in Red Bluff, California, in an effort to draw attention to police brutality." Police believe it was McCrae who confessed to the murder on a San Francisco website. In one of two letters posted on the site Monday by a man identifying himself as McCrae, the writer claims he shot and killed the officer to protest "police-state tactics" and corporate irresponsibility. The writer claimed he is immune from prosecution because he incorporated himself as a protest against corporations who "murder thousands of people each year." Mobilio, 31, was shot once in the head as he refueled his cruiser. He was the first officer ever killed in the line of duty in Red Bluff, a city of 13,500 near Sacramento. Some 2,500 people, including Gov. Gray Davis, attended a memorial Tuesday afternoon. Prosecutor Scott Murray called it "an ambush, an execution of a police officer ... to effectuate (McCrae's) political agenda." Vos, who covers crime for the newspaper, said McCrae wanted her to read a copy of a "Declaration of Renewed Independence" he said he had written. "I tell him I want to read it. He asks, 'How do I give it to you?' I say, 'You have to come out' and basically the conversation ends there." Authorities had told her they didn't want her to get McCrae excited because they feared he was suicidal. They also told her not to ask questions and try to lure him out. "Someone else was listening in and someone else was passing me notes," she said. Agents and police officers told Vos she had done a good job. "It feels weird, to be honest," she said. "That's not my job. My job is to report the news." McCrae was ordered held without bail after saying nothing during his arraignment by video hookup from the Merrimack County Jail. He had a bandage on his head and a blanket draped over his bare shoulders during the hearing. Police said there had been a dispute over jail clothing, but did not explain the bandage. Defense attorney Mark Sisti said McCrae had been injured, but gave no details.