assist another officer, Joseph Detwiler<\/a>. Before that, she said, she had seen some coverage of Thompson\u2019s killing on Fox News, including the surveillance video of the shooting and images of the suspected shooter.<\/p>\nWasser began searching Mangione\u2019s bag as officers took him into custody on initial charges of forgery and false identification, after he acknowledged giving them a bogus driving license, police said. The same fake name was used by the alleged gunman used at a Manhattan hostel days before the shooting.<\/p>\n
By then, a handcuffed Mangione had been informed of his right to remain silent \u2014 and invoked it \u2014 when asked if there was anything in the bag that officers should be concerned about.<\/p>\n
Wasser told another officer she wanted to check the bag for a bomb before leaving the McDonald\u2019s because she didn\u2019t want to repeat an incident in which another Altoona officer had inadvertently brought a bomb to the police station.<\/p>\n
What did police find in Mangione\u2019s bag?<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you call the bomb squad?\u201d Mangione lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. I didn\u2019t find a bomb yet,\u201d Wasser responded.<\/p>\n
According to body-worn camera video, the first few items Wasser found were innocuous: a hoagie, a loaf of bread and a smaller bag containing a passport, cellphone and computer chip.<\/p>\n
Then she pulled out a gray pair of underwear, unwrapping them to reveal the magazine.<\/p>\n
Satisfied there was no bomb, she suspended her search and placed some of the items back in the bag. Some evidence, including Mangione\u2019s laptop computer, was transported to the police station in a brown paper McDonald\u2019s takeout bag, body-worn camera video showed.<\/p>\n
Wasser resumed her search after an 11-minute drive to the police station and almost immediately found the gun and silencer \u2014 the latter discovery prompting her to laugh and exclaim \u201cnice,\u201d according to body-worn camera footage. Wasser said the gun was in a side pocket that she hadn\u2019t searched at McDonald\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Later, while cataloging everything in the bag in what\u2019s known as an inventory search, she found the notebook and other notes, including what appeared to to-do lists and possible getaway plans.<\/p>\n
\u201cIsn\u2019t it awesome?\u201d Wasser said at one point during the search, according to the body-worn camera video. <\/p>\n
Asked to explain, she told Friedman Agnifilo on Monday that she was proud of her police department\u2019s work in helping to capture Thompson\u2019s suspected killer. <\/p>\n
A Blair County, Pennsylvania, prosecutor testified that a judge later signed off on a search warrant for the bag, a few hours after the searches were completed. The warrant, she said, provided a legal mechanism for Altoona police to turn the evidence over to New York City detectives investigating Thompson\u2019s killing.<\/p>\n
As he has throughout the case, Assistant District Attorney Joel Seidemann described Thompson\u2019s killing as an \u201cexecution\u201d and referred to his notebook as a \u201cmanifesto\u201d \u2014 terms that Mangione\u2019s lawyers said were prejudicial and inappropriate.<\/p>\n
Judge Gregory Carro said the wording had \u201cno bearing\u201d on him, but warned Seidemann that he\u2019s \u201ccertainly not going to do that at trial\u201d when jurors are present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Moments after Luigi Mangione was handcuffed at a Pennsylvania McDonald\u2019s, a police officer searching…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":434480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[201372,3881,85370,4219,57,201373,210,4221,201374,201376,201375,2936,181121,85179,5249,564,18110,8006,3663,3669,405,403,50,5217,2830,61,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-434479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-altoona","10":"tag-ap-top-news","11":"tag-brian-thompson","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-gregory-carro","15":"tag-health","16":"tag-homicide","17":"tag-joel-seidemann","18":"tag-joseph-detwiler","19":"tag-karen-friedman-agnifilo","20":"tag-law-enforcement","21":"tag-local-news-for-apple","22":"tag-luigi-mangione","23":"tag-manhattan","24":"tag-maryland","25":"tag-mcdonalds-corp","26":"tag-md-state-wire","27":"tag-minnesota","28":"tag-mn-state-wire","29":"tag-new-york","30":"tag-new-york-city","31":"tag-news","32":"tag-pa-state-wire","33":"tag-pennsylvania","34":"tag-u-s-news","35":"tag-united-states","36":"tag-unitedstates","37":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115686962892380091","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}