Breaking: Notorious cop killer accused of trying to escape from Adirondack prison

The Associated Press is reporting today that Ralph “Bucky” Phillips, who wounded two troopers and fatally shot a third in 2006, has been accused of collecting “escape paraphernalia” in the Adirondack prison where he’s being held.

Phillips was the target of New York’s largest-ever manhunt.  This from the AP.

State corrections department officials told media outlets in Buffalo and Elmira Tuesday that Ralph “Bucky” Phillips was charged with violating prison regulations Monday after a search of his cell in a special housing unit turned up items prohibited at the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility [in Dannemora] in northern New York.

Officials aren’t commenting on the exact nature of the items.

Phillips shot and wounded two troopers and fatally wounded a third after he escaped from a Buffalo-area jail in 2006. He spent five months on the run before being captured in western Pennsylvania.

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