BARRETT TOWNSHIP, Monroe County — The manhunt for Eric Frein intensified Monday morning with the announcement over Monroe County emergency radio that "lethal force is authorized" to take down the alleged cop killer if he refuses to surrender.



At about 8:30 a.m. as an emergency response team and troopers surrounded an area of Barrett Township, an announcement alerted police that "per PSP Command, lethal force is authorized for the protection of self and others if positive ID is made and if subject refuses to surrender."



Some media outlets reported that a positive identification was made and Frein is refusing to surrender, but state police have not confirmed that report.



Combing the dense, hilly woods on the Monroe-Pike county border, state police say they have found one of the two rifles Eric Frein had with him when he allegedly opened fire on two Pennsylvania state troopers, killing one and critically wounding another as they left the Blooming Grove barracks nine days ago.