Our breaking Team Coverage continues now with nbc 10s Monique Braxton live. What are you learned there . Reporter the apprehension occurred half mile away from where im standing. This is where the officer was shot. The neighbors watched in awe as the suspect was driven away by narcotics officers. Im not used to seeing that around here. Thats scary. Reporter neighbors watched in awe as a man accused of shooting an 18th District Police officer was taken into kusly. The 23yearold has a lengthy criminal history. Our camera on the 1200 block of alden street as narcotics officers took Griffin Police headquarters, griffin, with 14 prior arrests, was casually standing on the corner talking. He was armed, yet arrested without incident. Coming out the house, seen all the cars, seen they had one guy. Reporter his father, scott, sr, showed up driving overfrom North Carolina after hearing his son may have been involved in a police shooting. He shared recent pictures of griffin saying his son was at
Police also recovered a gun and investigators tell us tonight he has a lengthy arrest record. It was just after 1 00 oclock when police swooped down on the 1200 block of north alden street and arrested 23yearold Scott Griffin for the shooting of Police Officer James Mccullough sunday night at 59th and market. He is a dangerous individual. Obviously. Were very happy to get him off the streets. Reporter griffin was taken into custody after homicide and narcotics detectives developed information on his whereabouts overnight. He was arrested as he got out of a car without incident. Police also recovered a gun that may have been used in the shooting of 24yearold officer during a mini crime spree in west philadelphia. The shooter has a lengthy record hes been arrested 14 times. The nonshot has been arrested three times. Its amazing that, again, much like officer hartnett that he didnt succumb to more significant injuries and so were so thankful for that. Reporter shooting of officer mccullou
Was all because he was a bad businessman who was battling addictions. His attorney and prosecutors spoke out about the out come. My goal which i think weve a accomplished to get him incarcerated so he can start paying restitution even fit means hes making license plates for 50 cents an hour to start paying that back. Thats what we expect from him. Reporter well, tollefson originally agreed to a plea deal that would have sent him to jail for just seven months. Half of which he had already served but withdrew from that deal and went to trial saying that he wanted his story told. Tollefson is a former employee of fox 29. Iain. Joyce, thank you. Change is rolling in your fox 29 Weather Authority. We got another round of rain today. With that comes a big jump in that our temperatures. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams outside old city tonight with a preview. Scott . Thats right, iain. Its going to be roller coaster ride believe or not over the next several days. Temperatures in fact will b
Were or simply chose to ignore that . Captioning funded by cbs this is the contribution cbs morning news for thursday march 26 2015. Good morning. Im Alison Harmelin in for annemarie green. An unidentified official said one of the pilots was apparently locked out of the cockpit as the plane slammed slammed into the side of the mountain. The pilot can be heard banging on the cockpit door. The investigator says its unclear why the pilot left the cockpit. Meanwhile the head of the french investigating team said the airbus flew on a Straight Line into the mountains. And the state Department Says there were at least three americans on board. Two have been identified. Yvonne selke and arch crews desperate to find the victims while families sat and wait. Crews are flying again over the french alps this morning searching for the data recorder belonging to the doomed germanwings jet. So far analysis of the planes voice recorder only deepens the mystery over tuesdays crash. The New York Times in
This is the contribution cbs morning news for thursday march 26 2015. Good morning. Im Alison Harmelin in for annemarie green. An unidentified official said one of the pilots was apparently locked out of the cockpit as the plane slammed slammed into the side of the mountain. The pilot can be heard banging on the cockpit door. The investigator says its unclear why the pilot left the cockpit. Meanwhile the head of the french investigating team said the airbus flew on a Straight Line into the mountains. And the state Department Says there were at least three americans on board. Two have been identified. Yvonne selke and her daughter. Her family called them wonderful people. Tina kraus is in digne at the crash site. Good morning. Reporter the sun came up early this morning and so did the helicopters full of the search crews desperate to find the victims while families sat and wait. Crews are flying again over the french alps this morning searching for the data recorder belonging to the doo