Fbi Searches Motor Home Left In Wyoming Vehicle May Have Been Abandoned By Suspects In Ohio Shootouts

FBI agents on Saturday searched a motor home that may have been abandoned in central Wyoming by two Washington state brothers sought in connection with shootouts with law officers in Ohio.

One of the men is also accused of having firearms that had belonged to an Arkansas gun dealer slain in 1996 along with his wife and daughter.

The Wyoming Highway Patrol on Friday ran a check of the late-model Dodge motor home, which had not moved for days, and connected it to Chevie O’Brien Kehoe, 24, and Cheyne C. Kehoe, 20, both of Colville, Wash.

Chevie Kehoe has ties to the Aryan Nations. The brothers are now targets of a nationwide manhunt.

The vehicle was left along Interstate 25 about 20 miles north of Casper.

Wyoming Department of Transportation spokesman Garth Oldham said it wasn’t clear if the Kehoes were in the area. Authorities told people to be on the lookout for the fugitives, who might be traveling with their wives and four small children.

“I think the public should be concerned if they see four adults who fit this description,” Oldham said. “But given the length of time between when this motor home was abandoned there and now, it would be logical to assume they probably have gone elsewhere.”

The FBI regional office in Denver referred questions about the search in Casper to the highway patrol.

The motor home was in the same spot for several days, Oldham said. A highway patrol officer ran a check on the vehicle late Friday afternoon.

The National Crime Information Center Database connected the vehicle to the fugitives, Oldham said. Authorities didn’t know whom the vehicle was registered to.

The Kehoes were indicted on charges related to shootouts Feb. 15 with police in Wilmington, Ohio, about 50 miles northeast of Cincinnati. They are accused of shooting at a state trooper, a Clinton County deputy sheriff and two Wilmington police officers in two separate shootouts after a traffic stop.

The shootout involving the trooper and the deputy was filmed by a camera mounted in a patrol cruiser. A police camera recorded the other shooting, in which the windshield of a cruiser was shattered by a bullet.

Chevie Kehoe has also been indicted by a federal grand jury in Spokane on three firearms violations. He is accused of possessing a pistol and a rifle that used to belong to an Arkansas gun dealer who was slain last year, along with his wife and daughter.

The three disappeared in January 1996. Their decomposed bodies were dredged from the Illinois Bayou near Russellville, Ark., on June 28.

Authorities in Pope County, Ark., said they want to know how Chevie Kehoe ended up with the guns.