When an Altoona, Pennsylvania police officer texted his supervisor to say he was responding to a tip that the suspect in a nationwide manhunt was sitting in a local McDonald's, the supervisor was incredulous.

“If you get the New York City shooter I’ll buy you a hoagie,” Officer Joseph Detwiler recalled his superior saying.

Detwiler didn’t say if he ever got the free sandwich. But he did make the arrest.

He testified Tuesday at multiday hearings in New York state court. Mangione’s defense attorneys say Altoona police did not read Mangione his Miranda rights or obtain a proper warrant before they started interrogating him and searched his backpack. The attorneys are moving to suppress evidence before trial.

Mangione faces state and federal murder charges, and is accused of shooting of Un

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