Fugitive in 11-Day Manhunt Seized as He Stops for a Brew
A fugitive captured at a bar after an 11-day spree that police said included sexual assaults and abductions said Sunday he stopped for a drink because he was lonely after days in the woods.
“I just wanted to be around somebody,” Randy Eugene McBee said at his arraignment.
McBee was arrested Saturday night at the Jolly Joker Tavern, where he had been drinking for three hours, after a man accompanying him told a waitress he was being held against his will.
McBee, 38, a convicted burglar from nearby Berkeley Springs, had been the subject of an exhaustive search after he escaped March 23 from a work-release center at Church Hill, Md.
Police suspect McBee of sexually assaulting three women, taking at least four people hostage and stealing cars, weapons and cash.
McBee was arraigned on charges of kidnaping, armed robbery, grand larceny and daytime burglary. Other charges will be taken before a grand jury, officials said.
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