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LEWIS RUN, Pa. (AP) — A “highly dangerous’ gunman wanted in a four-day spree in which he allegedly took two fami lies hostage, shot three people and stole vehicles and guns was Cap tured today after a homeowner held him for police, authorities said. Police exchanged gunfire with his companion, Donald Kinney, 19, believed to be from Texas, several miles north of Lewis Run before he eluded officers in the dense woods abutting the Allegheny Na tional Forest, said a Bradford police spokeswoman who refused to give her name. Authorities continued to warn Labor Day weekend campers to stay out of the area. Donald F. Biauce, 27, was cap tured by state and local police at 1:30 a.m. in northwestern Pennsylvania and taken to jail in Brad ford, said Bradford Of ficer B. Davis. Police said Biauce was not immediately charged. State Police Lt. BIAUCE Andrew Shedlock called Biauce, who has addresses in Union City and Kane, ‘highly dangerous.” Biauce was captured on the property of William Huber of Lewis Run, who told The Associ ated Press this morning that he had captured Bianco after dark ening his home, switching on out side floodlights and arming himself and several friends inside late Friday when he learned the manhunt was focusing in the neighborhood. ... I was afraid for my family,” he said. ‘‘We were panicky.” After watching police for about three hours, he said, he saw Biance sneak across a neighbor's yard and head for the woods behind his own house. “IT took a screen out, threw a couple of slugs in the rifle ... and fired above his head,”’ Huber said. “He dove for the ground and said, ‘If you move, I'm going to blow your head off. Biauce yelled, “I’m unarmed; don't shoot,’’ according to Huber. Huber said he and a friend, Terry Cook, then held Biauce at bay until police arrived. Police had expected Biauce to be heavily armed. They said he stole several guns from two fami lies he allegedly held hostage in separate incidents Thursday and Friday. One family was left tied up in their home; the other was taken on a terror-filled hour of shootings and vehicle thefts, ac cording to authorities. During the four-day spree, Bianco wounded three people — a former officer who gave chase and two of three motorists who refused to pick up the men and their hostages Friday morning, police said. Two of the motorists were shot, and one was listed in serious condition with bullet wounds in his upper arm. The third was injured by flying glass. THE INCIDENTS began Wed nesday when Biance and Nicholas Peterson Jr., 18, of Union City were seen allegedly trying to steal auto batteries. During a subse quent high-speed chase, the car the pair was driving crashed into an embankment. They were taken to an Erie hospital, from which Biance fled, possibly being picked up by Kinney, police said. Police said Biauce apparently found his way to Union Township in Erie County and held members of the John R. Kennedy family hostage for several hours before fleeing Thursday evening in the family’s truck. Police said Biauce also took four long-barreled guns, one handgun and money from the home. None of the family members was injured. Several hours later, police said, Bianco shot Dennis Crosby, a Corry security guard and former policeman who apparently heard a description of the stolen truck on the radio and gave chase. He told police there were two or three people in the truck. He was listed in stable condition at Warren General Hospital with a gunshot wound in his arm, a hospital spokeswoman said. BIAUCE apparently abandoned the pickup soon afterward, police said. Biance resurfaced Friday morning, when he and Kinney allegedly kicked in the front door of Jim and Marie Silvis, both 35, of Mead Township in Warren County, police said. The gunmen took two rifles, a pistol and about $75, and ordered the couple to take them to New York in the Silvis’ car, police said. After detouring to avoid one roadblock and crashing through another, they abandoned the car when it ran out of gas and stole a pickup at a camp, police said. But the truck also soon ran out of gas, according to Silvis. The two gunmen opened fire when motorists refused to pull over to pick them up, according to police. The suspects and their two hostages then walked through the woods until they came to a house near Marshburg, police said. Theresa Carpenter, 32, said she was dozing on her living room couch around 8 a.m. when a man kicked in her garage door and threatened to “blow my daugh ter’s head off” if she refused to cooperate. The two men fled in her four wheel vehicle, leaving all for peo ple behind because the car could only hold two, Mrs. Carpenter said. Police said Bianco abandoned that vehicle in the woods after it ran out of gas.
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Dover Times Reporter
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Sat, Sep 01, 1984
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