WPCNR POLICE GAZETTE. By John F. Bailey. November 2, 2005:  Inspector Daniel Jackson of the White Plains Police announced today that a SWAT Team, made up of himself, and personnel from the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force arrested  Thomas Porter, 30, (wanted on suspicion of murder of a police officer in Virginia), at the Live Oaks Condominium Complex at 50 DeKalb Avenue  in White Plains at 5 A.M. this morning.

The arrest was a result of White Plains Police Sergeant Wade Hardy  remembering Mr. Porter had been involved in a harroom altercation on Post Road in June of 2004, and WPPD Police Detective Burns work with  FBI Violent Crimes Task Force which ran computer checks and produced an address of a woman who knew Porter in White Plains. They had gone to the Live Oaks Condo to question the woman, not suspecting that Porter might actually be there./

The arrest team opened the door and found Porter standing behind the woman as they opened the door. Porter was not armed at the time of the arrest. 

Porter was wanted on charges he shot and killed a Norfolk Police Officer last Friday. Porter is accused of shooting Officer Stanley Cornell Reaves, 33, last Friday at 4 in the afternoon on DeBree Avenue in Norfolk Virginia. Reaves had gone to the DeBree block to investigate a report of a suspicious person in the area. Police in Norfolk in news reports have said Officer Reaves was shot in the head without warning as he stood outside his patrol car,  without a chance to fire back

Jackson said they were very lucky to capture Porter without incident, and said the arrest was great police work all around. He said Porter has now been turned over to the FBI and the U.S. Marshalls office for extradition.