Police today captured the white supremacist wanted in the knife slaying of a Lake Oswego high-tech engineer.

Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts announced at a Saturday press conference that Erik John Meiser, 37, was arrested without incident in Corvallis, five days after an intruder attacked and killed Frederick "Fritz" Hayes Jr. at his Lake Oswego-area home.

Meiser was alone at the time of the arrest and caught by surprise, police said. Members of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force and Clackamas Sheriff's Office detectives arrested Meiser at gunpoint about 2 p.m. in front of the Super 8 Motel at 407 2nd St.

Authorities said the task force received information that Meiser was in Corvallis and then spotted him on the street. The source of the original information was not disclosed.

Meiser has history of crime spanning 10 states, starting when he was 14-year-old, including arrests for hate crimes, drug crimes, assaults, burglaries, theft, domestic violence, assault/cruelty toward a child, obscene phone calls, vandalism, disorderly conduct, trespassing, providing false identification to an officer and resisting arrest.

In the Hayes case, Meiser was wanted on a count of aggravated murder, which means he could face the death penalty, if convicted.

The arrest came after an intensive, multistate manhunt.

On Friday, arrest warrants went out across the country while wanted bulletins were relayed to state police in Washington, Idaho, California and Nevada, as well as authorities across Oregon. Meiser's description was sent to the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, which entered him into the national database.

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According to Clackamas County court documents, Meiser is accused of stabbing Hayes to death early Monday after burglarizing his home in the

Lake Oswego.

Shortly before 6:30 a.m., Hayes, 57, and his wife, Margaret "Maggie" Hayes, 56, confronted an intruder in their home, which sits in an unincorporated pocket west of downtown Lake Oswego.

The attacker, armed with at least two knives, stabbed Hayes, who was declared dead shortly afterward. His wife, who called 9-1-1 after running out, was uninjured.

Police believe the bloody, stranger-to-stranger attack was random and that burglary was the intruder's original motive.

Sgt. Adam Phillips, sheriff's spokesman, said police received hundreds of tips from the public in the days before Meiser was captured. Several distinctive features would have made it hard for Meiser to blend into a crowd. He is 6-foot-five and has "N-A-Z-I" tattooed on the knuckles of his left hand, with a smaller "NEO" over the N of Nazi. He also has "HATE" tattooed on his left calf, as well as tattoos on his arms, legs, abdomen, shoulder and back, described as "mostly white supremacy imagery."

The capture comes shortly before two services to honor Hayes, who retired just months before he was killed.

On Sunday, a celebration of life is set for 2 p.m. in the Oregon Episcopal School chapel,

, Portland.

On Monday, a candlelight vigil is set for 7 p.m. at the Lake Oswego United Church of Christ and Beit Haverim South Metro Jewish Congregation,

Lake Oswego.

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