BLOOMING GROVE, PA – Pike County District Attorney Ray Tonkin is pictured during a nationally televised, late-night Oct. 30 news conference following the capture of sniper-shooting suspect Eric Frein.

Flanked by Gov. Tom Corbett and state police Commissioner Frank Noonan, Tonkin announced that he would seek the death penalty for Frein at trial in Pike County.

Frein, who had been named to the FBI’s Most Wanted list eluded an extensive seven-week police search of the forests in southern Pike and northern Monroe counties.

He is the sole suspect in the late-night Sept. 12 sniper shooting death of state police Cpl Bryon Dickson and the wounding of Trooper Alex Douglass outside the police barracks

in Blooming Grove.

Police said Frein surrendered without incident, when a search party of federal agents of the US Marshals Service surprised him in the open at about 6 p.m. Thursday evening, at the abandoned Birchwood air field in Pocono Township, Monroe County.

Frein was turned over to state police, who restrained him Cpl Dickson’s handcuffs and transported him back to Blooming Grove in the patrol car Dickson used, Noonan said.

Frein was arraigned on first-degree murder and attempted murder charges in Milford Friday morning before Magisterial District Justice Sharon Muir, who ordered him held without bail, pending a Nov. 5 preliminary hearing.