""We don't do in-depth searches very often, no," Altoona Pennsylvania Patrolman Tyler Frye testified during a third day of state-level evidence-suppression hearings. He also said he'd never before seen a strip search used for an arrest relating to forgery - Mangione's initial charge, for what police alleged was a false ID. Before Mangione was strip-searched, however, a small knife had been recovered from his pocket, according to police bodycam footage aired on the courtroom's five overhead screens."
"Moments later in the footage, an officer searching through Mangione's backpack could be heard saying, "There's a gun." A weapons possession charge would be added to his arrest complaint. Mangione's strip search followed five minutes after the gun was found. When asked to describe the rarely conducted search, Frye only said, "He's naked, and they do a more thorough search.""
"The search was not recorded on police body cameras, as per protocol, Frye said in court. Before the cameras were turned off, however, they recorded Mangione disrobing, a lengthy process given that he was arrested wearing multiple layers of clothing, including two heavy winter jackets, two pairs of jeans, and a pair of what police in the footage called "long johns.""
Luigi Mangione spent the one-year anniversary of Brian Thompson's shooting in a Manhattan courtroom during a third day of state-level evidence suppression hearings. Courtroom screens aired police bodycam footage showing his arrest processing, discovery of a small knife and later a gun, and his subsequent strip search. Altoona Patrolman Tyler Frye testified that deep searches are rare and he had never seen a strip search for a forgery arrest. The strip search occurred about five minutes after the gun was found and was not recorded per protocol. Bodycams documented Mangione disrobing through multiple layers of clothing before being turned off.
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