A first-person account describing how police, who had been surveilling a suspected killer, coordinated with a news station. The news director (also an attorney) alerted police and prioritized safety; officers waited outside the station and arrested the suspect in the station parking lot shortly after an interview concluded.
The police had been surveilling him. They knew he was at our station. Our news director, actually, in those few minutes we had before he arrived at the station, alerted the police. Our news director was primarily concerned, who also happens to be an attorney, was primarily concerned about safety at the station. You know, we're bringing this man in who is an apparent killer. Are we going to be safe? And so they want. He wanted the police to know. And the police said, well, don't worry, we're going to be there because we're following him. And he also wanted to make sure that. That if the, you know, that the police understood was happening so we didn't jeopardize something that was about to happen with him. So the police were at our station outside. The Albany police were there ready to arrest him if there was cause to arrest him after that interview. So they immediately knew what happened. And within a very short time period after the interview was over, they arrested him in our parking lot.
