Police: New York cop killer nabbed in cornfield BON POUR TOUS

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NEW YORK (AFP) — Police have caught one of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives," in the shootings of three New York State troopers, when bloodhounds cornered him in a cornfield in Pennsylvania. "At 8:00 tonight, Bucky Phillips ... could run but he could not hide," New York State police superintendent Wayne Bennett told reporters after a five-month manhunt, which began when the career criminal broke out of jail with a can opener.

A visibly relieved Bennett, wearing a trooper's wide-brimmed Stetson hat, fielded reporters' questions standing before dozens of uniformed police who helped corner Ralph "Bucky" Phillips. Bennett said that once Phillips was spotted in the corn field, troopers caught him in a "pincer movement." "We just keep pushing the perimeter. And when you got a...