Breaking News: Ex LAPD Cop barricaded in cabin

Yes, your tip may have indirectly led to police and citizens lives being saved, but since he wasn't caught alive, we can't give you any reward money, even though you led us to him.

This is just one more reason of why California continues to go down the drain.

Leave it to the perpetually uninformed to always come up with the conspiratorial angle.



I sure wouldn't have ordered any firefighters to put that blaze out. Let it burn, deal with the mess later.

I really don't know the answer to this question, but has anyone other than TMZ claimed that the Los Angeles County reward will not be paid? If I wanted to know about Lindsay Lohan maybe I'd visit TMZ, otherwise, not so much.

CBS News and NBC News address the issue of the award/non-award of the reward money.

A blog on Slate references TMZ breaking the story. It also discusses the most likely recipients: ". . . Jim and Karen Reynolds, the couple that was briefly held hostage by Dorner after he broke into their condo on Tuesday, before stealing their purple Nissan and fleeing the scene. Minutes later, Karen called 911, the Los Angeles Times explains, setting 'in motion the chain of events' that led to Dorner's shootout, . . .".

DonDiego stands corrected; he had thought it was "the maids" who provided the information as to what vehicle Mr. Dorner was driving; it was, in fact, Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds. They provided the most pertinent information resulting in ending the episode.

I hope LA's taxpayers don't have to pay this reward.

Rewards like these are offered to prompt people who, without a reward, don't have the common decency to give up information they have about the location of a wanted criminal. It's meant to give henchmen, family members, and other close associates an incentive to squeal.

As best I can tell, no one was persuaded to come forward with Dorner's location by the reward. Rather, decent people did what decent people should do and called the cops as soon as they learned something.

To the Reynolds, this reward would simply be a windfall. They escaped with their lives. That should be plenty, it would be for me.

But fellow conspirators are not rewarded under the terms of the reward. Why shouldn't these people be rewarded? When I see our Democratic Board of Supervisors in LA taking first class flight junkets and stealing money right and left for their parties, why don't these people deserve it for the trauma they went through? If they don't report it, the authorities don't find this guy and he possibly goes on to kill more cops and other civilians.

Oh by the way, taxpayers do not pay the reward in this case.

The state of USA news reporting is so bad as to make TMZ look good. At least they get off their asses and got to the story, rather than sit with their feet on the desk while waiting for the phone to ring. But - a quick search revealed several other news sources carrying the same story.

That could be true, I don't know, I understood the LA Mayor to be speaking about a taxpayer-funded reward, but I could be mistaken.

It's official. It was Dorner in the cabin, he's dead.

The LA City Council put up 100,000. The rest was from other sources including the L.A. Dodgers. There was a stipulation that a family member who turns him in or a crime associate who turns him in, would not be eligible to collect the reward.

I predict that when it is over the three people will collect. They do not plan to withhold the reward.