Spokane, Wash.-A released federal inmate convicted in 2006 of trying to blow up a U.S. government building with a fertilizer bomb is back in lockup awaiting a court date after eluding federal marshals and other searchers in the Spokane, Wash., area for nearly a month. “I’d almost guarantee he’s headed back to prison,” Deputy U.S. Marshal Bob Doty said of Anthony Burke, 22, aka Anthony Garver, who was on work release to the Geiger Correctional Center but took off on his own early last month. “One family got suspicious when a man told them he was lost and his family lives around there someplace, which didn’t make sense in a rural environment,” Doty related. He was spotted at least two other times in the same area until the marshals heard from a gas station attendant who had seen one of the 100 or more “wanted” flyers circulated to homes and businesses. Deputy Marshal Jerame Brown, lead agent, along with another deputy marshal, finally tracked a set of footprints to where Brown noticed a freshly broken branch, which led them to find Burke hunkered down in a ditch off the side of a road. Brown said Burke, dressed in a camouflage outfit and hiding under netting with a hunting knife and a backpack containing several survival magazines and energy drinks, put up no resistance. Brown said Burke is sitting in the Spokane County jail awaiting an Aug. 26 date in 9th District Court for revocation of supervisory release. Burke had served a three-year sentence for possession of ammunition. The Spokane native was considered armed and dangerous because of previous threats he had made to blow up the Department of Social and Health Services building in Spokane and detonate a bomb at a park event. Early in the search U.S. Marshal Mike Kline told Green Markets that Burke was of serious concern being just out of prison with “an anti-government mindset.”
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