Remains of militia/terrorist whacko Jason McVean found after 9 years.

[El Supremo]

Sheriff: Remains may be '98 killer of cop in Four Corners

By Associated Press
June 6, 2007

MONTICELLO, Utah — A cowboy discovered pipe bombs and human remains that could belong to a man suspected of killing a Colorado police officer in 1998, the San Juan County sheriff said.

DNA tests will determine if they are the bones of Jason McVean, who was the target of an intense manhunt, the Deseret Morning News and Salt Lake Tribune reported on their Web sites today.

"I always believed he was dead someplace, and I didn't think he was that far away from where this started," Sheriff Mike Lacy told the Morning News.

McVean, 26 at the time, and two other men, Alan Pilon, 30, and Robert Mason, 26, were in a stolen water truck when they were pulled over by Cortez Officer Dale Claxton, authorities said.

Claxton was shot 29 times, and the trio fled over the border into Utah in the Four Corners area of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.

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[Ezlivin]

1. When's the next press conference to trumpet another terrorist arrest?

I suppose that they'll label this guy as a terrorist and then make a big deal out of finding his remains.

"See, we are keeping you safer!"

[mike_c]

2. he's not a "terrorist," just a common criminal....

Good lord, everyone is a "terrorist" these days.

[El Supremo]

3. People were trying to figure out what they were doing with all those weapons and bombs.

One theory is that they were going to blow up the Glenn Canyon Dam at Lake Powell.
Google it.

[Judi Lynn]

5. They were a little too violent to fit the ordinary criminal image, for goddamned sure! n/t

[Judi Lynn]

4. From a google search, a look at how he got into the news originally:

~snip
The three, McVean, Pilon and Mason, allegedly stole a water truck about 11:30 in the morning of May 28, 1998, from an oil field service parking lot near Ignacio, Colo. The next morning at 9:24, Cortez (Colo.) police officer Dale Claxton spotted the truck and began following it. The truck, with three men in it, was about 80 miles from where it was stolen. The truck pulled over and stopped, just beyond the Cortez city limits in Montezuma County.

Before Claxton could get out of his police cruiser, one of the three men got out of the truck, walked toward the police car and fired numerous rounds from an automatic weapon into the cruiser. Claxton died instantly from the hail of 7.62 x 39 bullets. (Authorities do not know which of the men did what throughout this escapade.)

After killing Claxton, the three men drove several miles before they abandoned the water truck and commandeered at gunpoint a flatbed truck from Paul Ibarra, an employee of Cortez building contractor Bob Williams. Two of the men got into the truck's cab. The third man got on the truck's bed, brandishing an automatic weapon.

Just before the flatbed truck pulled out of Williams' driveway onto Montezuma County Road F, a Montezuma County sheriff's deputy, Jason Bishop, drove by in his cruiser, heading west on Road F. He was looking for the water truck. The flatbed truck pulled out and followed the deputy for a short distance. Then, the man on the back of the truck opened fire.

Bishop was wounded in the back of his head. He lost consciousness and his cruiser crashed. The stolen truck sped toward a bend where Road F meets Montezuma County Road 25. Almost immediately, the men in the truck saw a Colorado State Patrol vehicle coming toward them. The man on the flatbed opened fire. The man on the passenger side may have fired also. Patrolman Steve Keller was not hit by the hail of bullets from the automatic weapon, but his vehicle was put out of action by a flat tire and one or more shattered windows. Seconds later, Cortez Police Sergeant Sue Betts came into view around the corner. Shots fired from the truck hit her cruiser, but she was not injured.
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http://crimemagazine.com/manhunt.htm