Police caught the armed fugitive Monday morning wanted for shooting at point blank range at two Queens cops earlier this month. Cops have been hunting for Antonio Olmeda, 53, since he allegedly opened fire on two while disguised with glasses and a fake beard. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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The two cops, who had stopped Olmeda and asked him to remove his hands from his pockets, were not injured.
Police from the Regional Fugitive Task Force staked out Olmeda’s vehicle parked in East Harlem Monday.
When Olmeda returned to the vehicle about 8:45 a.m. police swept in and arrested him.
They found two firearms on the madman – and what they feared was an explosive device in his vehicle.
But after an investigation that lasted about an hour, the device was found to be a box of toggles connected to police-style lights and a siren.
Investigators had a reason to be extra wary.
When Olmeda was busted in 1994 for offering an undercover cop money for sex, they found he had a van full of exotic weapons.
He did four years in prison on weapons charges for possessing a flame-thrower, 18 pipe bombs, a shotgun with a laser sight, assorted swords, machetes, and a gas mask.
He also had 12 clips of ammunition for Uzi sub machine guns and 1,000 rounds of illegal Black Tallon bullets.
And in 2002 Olmeda was busted in a North Carolina Greyhound bus station carrying more than 200 rounds of ammunition and a book about snipers.
Investigators linked Olmeda to the Dec. 2 shooting after they matched DNA from the glasses the gunman tossed away as he ran from cops to a state criminal database.
