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Philadelphia PA. May 4 2008

A Philadelphia police officer was shot and killed with a military assault rifle late this morning when he confronted at least two robbers who had just held up a Bank of America branch at a Shoprite supermarket in Port Richmond.Another officer, responding to a “flash” that had been broadcast on police radio, ran into the robbers at Schiller and Almond streets and shot one of them dead, officials said.

One, perhaps two, of the robbers remained at large late this afternoon as hundreds of police officers searched a wide swath of the city looking for bandits and their getaway car.

“This is a tragedy for the entire City of Philadelphia,” Mayor Nutter told a reporter outside of Temple University Hospital, where the slain officer was taken.Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey identified the slain officer as Stephen Liczbinski, 40, a 12-year police veteran assigned to the 24th District in Port Richmond who recently had been promoted to sergeant.

Liczbinski’s wife, Michelle, and their three children — Matt, Steven and Amber — were escorted into the hospital by police officials.At 11:26 a.m., police received a report of a robbery at the American Bank at 3547 Aramingo Avenue.

There was no immediate word on the details of the robbery.Police weren’t certain if there were two robbers or three.Lt. Frank Vanore, a police spokesman, described one as a man wearing “Muslim garb” and carrying a shoulder bag.He said that a second, who might have been a woman, was wearing “light brown Muslim garb.”

A third possible robber, a man, was described as having worn a “dreadlock wig” and a “construction mask.” He had on blue jeans and a flannel shirt.Liczbinski ran into the robbers sometime after they fled the bank. Officials said the weapon used to kill him may have been an AK-47 style assault rifle, used by numerous armies and insurgent groups around the world.

A short distance from the bank, at Schiller and Almond streets, a canine-unit officer encountered the getway vehicle. Shots were fired, and one of the robbers was fatally wounded. Police officers no immediate details on what happened.

“That’s all we have at this moment,” Ramsey said in a news conference with Nutter at his side.

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Philadelphia PA. Oct. 25, 2007

Maximo Jurado spent 28 years as a fugitive, a long run that came to an end today when dozens of law enforcement officers confronted him at his girlfriend’s rowhouse in Philadelphia.
Jurado, who escaped from a New Jersey prison in 1979, made a brief claim to be someone named Juan before officers showed him an old prison photo.
“It’s me,” Jurado said, according to the Associated Press.
The 75-year-old is being jailed in Philadelphia until he can be extradited to New Jersey, where he will face the remainder of his three- to five-year prison sentence on drug charges from Hudson County, N.J.
He also could face an escape charge in Monmouth County, N.J., where he was housed at the now-closed minimum-security Marlboro Camp. Prisoners there worked at the Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital, which also is closed.
The New Jersey Department of Corrections keeps a list of escapees; the vast majority are inmates who walked away from residential halfway houses within the last several years.
Today, the list had 132 names, only seven of them from 1979 or earlier.
Deidre Fedkenheuer, a corrections spokeswoman, said a special fugitive unit pursues the escapees.
“They like to say, ‘There are no cold cases, only old cases,’ ” she said.
She said investigators tracked Jurado through driver’s licenses he obtained using aliases, as well as through other techniques.
Daniel Klotz, the senior corrections investigator on the case, said the break came when authorities learned that Jurado was using the alias Juan Osorio.
During his time as a fugitive, Jurado lived in New Jersey, South Carolina and Virginia, Fedkenheuer said, and he appears to have stayed out of trouble through those years.
If he had been arrested, she said, his true identity and his status as a fugitive would have been discovered through his fingerprints.
Jurado told the officers who came for him around 10 a.m. today that the fear of getting sent back to prison helped him change his life.
“That’s when I decided to stay out of trouble,” he said.