{"id":2428,"date":"2007-06-19T10:17:20","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T18:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/06\/from_deranged_hippie_fugitive_to_deranged_hippie_reject.html"},"modified":"2007-06-19T10:17:20","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T18:17:20","slug":"from_deranged_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/from_deranged_h.html","title":{"rendered":"From Deranged Hippie Fugitive To Deranged Hippie Reject"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you’re on the lam, everything is exciting at first. Everyone thinks of you as a badass<\/a>. You can taunt your victims<\/a>. Then you get unceremoniously taken into custody after exiting the el train in West Philly — where’s the shootout in that!? — and all of the sudden you’re just some “deranged hippie reject”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A deranged hippie reject, accused of gunning down a Staten Island commune leader, was nabbed yesterday at a Philadelphia train station after more than a year on the lam, officials said.<\/p>\n

Rebekah Johnson, 44, jumped from behind a row of bushes and waylaid Ganas leader Jeff Gross outside the commune’s Staten Island compound along a sloping section of Corson Avenue, shooting him six times with a .38-caliber pistol on Memorial Day 2006, police said.<\/p>\n

Witnesses said Johnson quickly walked away down a hill, virtually disappearing for 13 months until a fugitive task force caught up with the hateful hippie has-been in the City of Brotherly Love.<\/p>\n

Authorities said they tracked her there after she got sloppy and bought a car in Delaware using her real name, and opened a post office box in nearby Cherry Hill, N.J.<\/p>\n

Johnson was placed under arrest at 11 a.m. after she stepped off a train from Camden, N.J., to Philadelphia in the city’s western section, where a dozen law-enforcement officers were waiting for her.<\/p>\n

“We had prior intelligence that she was going to be there,” said Robert Kurtz, acting supervisor of the Marshals Service’s fugitive task force. “She didn’t try to escape.”<\/p>\n

Kurtz said the suspect was not armed when she was caught.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you’re on the lam, everything is exciting at first. Everyone thinks of you as a badass. You can taunt your victims. Then you get unceremoniously taken into custody after exiting the el train in West Philly — where’s the shootout in that!? — and all of the sudden you’re just some “deranged hippie reject”: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}