A manhunt is underway for an armed squatter authorities say surprised homeowners near Lake Roosevelt on Sunday. Eric John Dobbs, 32, told a man who went to check on his summer cabin that he was a bounty hunter there to collect $10,000, said Brian Telford, chief criminal deputy with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office. The man and his wife, who live in Harrington, had traveled to their cabin near Porcupine Bay to prepare it for summer, said Brian Telford, chief criminal deputy with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators identified Dobbs through items left at the cabin, where Telford said he’d apparently been staying for some time. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is working with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force to track Dobbs. They found his SUV abandoned on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Stevens County Monday night. Dobbs is from Virginia but has ties to Lincoln, Spokane, and Whatcom counties, as well as North Idaho. Anyone with information on him should contact the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office at (509)725-3501.
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