sheriff s investigators thought they had an answer and they would make an arrest. the suspect, 32-year-old scott cannon, a plumber who on the day of the murders was at the trailer providing an estimate for repairs. the father of one young son with another on the way. but he was also a pot and meth user and his motive, investigators believed, was a drug deal that went sideways. they had a guy who was on drugs. he was in the meth world. former investigative reporter eric mason. he looked like a good suspect. he knew drug dealers. he liked weapons. and when police showed up and started looking around his garage, what was in his garage looked pretty good to them. what police found was an extensive gun collection. no murder weapon, but hundreds of rounds of bullets and these, homemade silencers. it was circumstantial but it was
warns agents of an extensive gun collection in his basement now at sublet s disposal. i think there were over 20 firearms that he had access to. they included handguns, they included shotguns, they included high-powered rifles. if we tried to storm the place, somebody was going to get hurt. so the decision was made to just wait him out. special agent in charge carl stankovich joined more than 120 agents on the scene. that residence was located on 15 acres of property that was pretty much wide open. using his vantage point, sublet opens fire on law enforcement. i could hear rounds hitting light poles. we could hear things pinging off every time that he would fire. you could hear at different points rounds hitting different places. power and water to the home are cut. to track sublet s movement, several robotic cameras, normally used by bomb squads, are brought in. they were able to maneuver
were found, polk county sheriff s investigators thought they had an answer and they would make an arrest. cannon, a plumber who on the day of the murders was at the trailer providing an estimate for repairs. the father of one young son with another on the way. but he was also a pot and meth user and his motive, investigators believed, was a drug deal that went sideways. they had a guy who was on drugs. he was in the meth world. former investigative reporter eric mason. he looked like a good suspect. he knew drug dealers. he liked weapons. and when police showed up and started looking around his garage, what was in his garage looked pretty good to them. what police found was an extensive gun collection. no murder weapon, but hundreds
family are not at home. but he warns agents of an extensive gun collection in his basement now at sublet s disposal. i think there were over 20 firearms he had access to. they included handguns, shotguns, high powered rifles. if we tried to storm the place, somebody was going to get hurt. so the decision was made to wait him out. special agent in charge carl stankovich joined the units on scene. using his vantage point, sublet opens fire on law enforcement. i could hear rounds hitting light poles. we could hear things pinging off every time he would fire. you could hear at different points rounds hitting different things. power and water to the home are cut. to track sublet s movement, robotic cameras are brought in.
family are not at home. but he warns agents of an extensive gun collection in his basement now at sublet s disposal. i think there were over 20 firearms he had access to. they included handguns, shotguns, high powered rifles. if we tried to storm the place, somebody was going to get hurt. so the decision was made to wait him out. special agent in charge carl stankovik joined the units on scene. using his vantage point, sublet opens fire on law enforcement. i could hear rounds hitting light poles. we could hear things pinging off every time he would fire. you could hear at different points rounds hitting different things. power and water to the home are cut. to track sublet s movement, robotic cameras are bougrought .