WHEN A COP KILLER GOES ON THE RUN THE HAMLET POA FINDS ITSELF IN THE CENTER OF THE HUNT


DEBORAH E. BOYLE, CPA THE HAMLET POA BOARD PRESIDENT


Day aer day you believe that you and your community have prepared for likely problems. Flood, re, and power outages are the worst cases and you know, should they occur, you would at least be able to muddle through. Then a fool shoots a state trooper and kills another in front of their barracks, escapes, and leads law enforcement on a 44day manhunt.


We heard that news and were shaking our heads. Five days later, we learned that the suspected killer, Eric David Frein, lived with his parents in the community bordering ours in the Pocono forest. And the next day a cell phone call from Frein is traced to the


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woods behind our small private community  The Hamlet Property Owners Associaon in Canadensis, PA.


In the blink of an eye, the enre area, including every adjacent road and our “private” roads, was engulfed by fully armed police on foot, in vehicles, K9 units, and plainclothes, carrying automac weapons.


The Hamlet is a forested community of 130 homes plus lots, ve miles of roads, a clubhouse, indoor and outdoor pools, tennis courts, and two small lakes. Less than forty homeowners are weekend or vacaon homes. Most of those owners usually come to the community on weekends. The Hamlet is known for its rural, wooded environment, one acre lots, and idyllic peacefulness that is jealously protected.


For the next three weeks, our freedom and peace were shaken, our piece of utopia shaered. Most days and nights police enveloped the community. Everywhere you looked were patrol cars and police on foot in SWAT gear aiming automac weapons into the woods. At night they patrolled streets in vehicles for hours with spotlights, not missing the house windows. Helicopters, including Blackhawks (truly, we saw them) ew over us repeatedly and at low altude for hours, even aer midnight, raling our windows and jarring us awake. During the me there was a constant presence of state troopers, FBI agents, federal marshals, Barre Township Police, ATF, border patrol, and customs ocers numbering in the (Connued on page 38)


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