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To: Lucretius who wrote (288106)	5/25/2004 1:14:26 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Another good reason to give up smoking (and to buy TASR): Police get suspect with ruse 5-25-04 By Russ Rizzo Staff Writer News & Record MEBANE -- When you're trying to talk an armed man out of a dangerous situation, you look for any opportunity to strike. For Mebane police, opportunity came in the form of a Marlboro. Rufus Bishop Jr. was holed up in a culvert under a bridge around 8 a.m. Monday within a mile of his house, which he was seen running from hours before. The house, at 1108 Sandstone Court, was on fire when firefighters got there, and Bishop's young daughter was lying in the back yard with a gunshot wound to the head. Police suspected Bishop shot his daughter and set the fire to cover it up. They chased him to a culvert near his house and tried for more than an hour to talk him out of it, or to at least put down his handgun. Bishop told Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson that he wanted a cigarette. Johnson said OK, but he'd have to put the gun down and come get it. Bishop also needed a lighter -- his got wet during the police chase through a creek. Bishop put his gun down and started toward the sheriff. Lt. Robert Wilborn decided it was time to act. Wilborn, a member of the sheriff department's S.W.A.T. team, went to the top of the bridge and shed his keys, cell phone, pager and radio -- "anything that might make a noise," he said. Everything but a taser gun, borrowed from a Mebane police officer. Wilborn and another deputy walked down and got in a culvert next to the one Bishop was in. There were three culverts next to each other under the bridge. Bishop changed his mind about the cigarette offer and went back to his gun. The sheriff continued to entice him. Bishop changed his mind again. He put the gun down and made his way to the sheriff, who stood near him. Above Bishop, a Mebane police officer got two Marlboro cigarettes out of his pack and bundled them with a red Bic lighter. He tied a white string around them and began lowering the booty just outside Bishop's culvert. When Bishop reached for the cigarettes, Wilborn reached from the mouth of his culvert and shot Bishop with the taser. It was a creative solution to a common problem, Wilborn said. Bishop, 38, was arrested. Mebane police plan to charge him with the shooting and arson, Chief Gary Bumgarner said. Bumgarner said Bishop recently separated from his wife. Police charged him Monday with breaking into his wife's nearby apartment during the weekend. The daughter's condition was not available Monday night.