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Prosecutors highlighted “about $10,000 — $8,000 in U.S. dollars and then $2,000 in foreign currency that was found on his person,” CNN correspondent Danny Freeman said following the court hearing.
“Also they said that he had a Faraday bag,” which blocks cell signals, a move that prosecutors alleged marked “an indication of criminal sophistication and reason they should hold him on bail,” Freeman continued.
After prosecutors made the claims, Mangione said he would like to “correct two things.”
“I don’t know where any of that money came from — I’m not sure if it was planted. And also, that bag was waterproof, so I don’t know about criminal sophistication,” the suspect said in a statement that suggested police framed him.
This could be a scapegoat
But this could also be the perpetrator claiming he’s a scapegoat, which is probably the best way to get a Jury to acquit, just plant doubts.
I’m gonna say that this is probably the actual perpetrator and I guess he was planning on more targets, but got caught before he could do more “deposing”.
Why not ditch the first weapon then? He could have just gotten another gun. Why would he have kept ALL the evidence on his person 5 days later?
If this is actually the perpetrator, it’s possible he intended to get caught so that they dont find a scapegoat to accuse, but he merely wanted to delay his arrest in order to see the social media reactions before potentially going to prison.
If that’s the case, I’ll bet he was loving it. Has anyone ever captured the admiration of so many people with one act? Especially an act this violent?
Free Luigi.
Yeah. If they were looking for someone to frame, NYPD could have just grabbed someone in NY. I don’t see how it makes sense for them to coordinate with PA police to frame a random guy out of state, especially that quickly. I doubt they’d have been able to fabricate the evidence that quickly, too.
So they took evidence, and instead of analyzing it, sent it out of state to be planted on some random guy three days later? That seems even more unlikely.
