Fugitive bomber is caught napping. Found in Quincy (Mass.) after year on run

[Ian David]

Source: The Boston Globe

He managed to evade capture for a year. But yesterday, Thomas A. Shay was literally caught sleeping.

The fugitive, who spent 10 years in prison for planting a bomb in 1991 that killed a Boston police officer and wounded another, was tracked down at his mother's house on Beacon Street in Quincy by deputy US marshals, Boston police, and Quincy police.

"Everybody in his family said he wasn't there," said Supervisory Deputy US Marshal Jeffrey L. Bohn, adding that a quick search of the two-family house showed that they were not telling the truth. "He was upstairs in bed."

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Shay was convicted of plotting with a friend, Alfred W. Trenkler, to make a homemade bomb, which was planted under Shay's father's car and exploded when members of the Boston Police Bomb Squad were examining it in a Roslindale driveway on Oct. 28, 1991. Officer Jeremiah J. Hurley Jr. , 50, a father of four, was killed in the blast, and his partner, Officer Francis X. Foley, lost an eye and was never able to return to his police job. Trenkler, 51, who had been serving a life sentence, had his sentence reduced in April to 37 years.



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Also found living in Mrs. Shay's basement-- James "Whitey" Bulger and Osama Bin Laden?