ANACONDA – Big sigh country.

A shadow lifted.

Residents of Anaconda-Deer Lodge County embraced something akin to normalcy Saturday after the capture Friday afternoon of accused killer Michael Brown.

Authorities had believed Brown was hiding in the vicinity of a state wildlife management area off Stumptown Road west of Anaconda after allegedly killing four people Aug. 1 at the Owl Bar and fleeing in a stolen Ford pickup.

Local and state police, along with the U.S. Marshals Service and others, captured Brown at a trailer Friday around 2 p.m. several miles west of Anaconda off Montana Highway 1.

Authorities confirmed Friday evening that Brown was armed when arrested.

He is jailed at the Butte-Silver Bow County Detention Center, according to a Saturday jail roster.

Anaconda native Dave

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