( CNN ) -- After nearly seven weeks on the run , suspected cop killer Eric Matthew Frein is in custody , Pennsylvania State Police spokeswoman Connie Devens said Thursday . According to a local government official briefed on the matter , Frein was caught at an abandoned airport between Henryville and Tannersville . He was reportedly taken into custody without incident . A U.S . Marshal 's Service special operations team tracked Frein to the abandoned airport while it was in process of clearing the area , according to a law enforcement source with knowledge of the capture . Its work , that source said , was also aided by intelligence and eyewitness accounts gathered throughout the course of the manhunt . Frein was armed with two guns when he was arrested , according to another law enforcement source . One was a pistol and the other a rifle , the source said . A separate law enforcement official told CNN that knives were recovered from Frein 's hiding place , and that authorities are currently searching the area for more weapons . Frein , 31 , is suspected in the September 12 ambush shooting that left Cpl . Bryon Dickson dead and Trooper Alex T. Douglass wounded outside the Pennsylvania State Police barracks in Blooming Grove . `` Let me assure everybody here ... justice will be served , '' Pennsylvania Gov . Tom Corbett said Thursday night at a news conference about Frein 's capture . Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty for Frein , Pike County District Attorney Raymond Tonkin told reporters . The suspect is now sitting in a cell at the same barracks outside which the two officers were ambushed , authorities said . He was cuffed with Cpl . Dickson 's handcuffs , officials said . The search . The weeks-long search yielded a mishmash of purported personal effects . Police have said they found an empty pack of Serbian cigarettes . Frein claims to have fought with Serbians in Africa and has studied Russian and Serbian languages , according to the FBI , which named him one of its Ten Most Wanted fugitives . Two fully functional pipe bombs and soiled adult diapers were also found , perhaps used by Frein to stay in a stationary position for long periods of time . Police have not spoken about a possible motive for the crime , other than that Frein has talked and written about hating law enforcement . Authorities have said a review of a computer hard drive used by Frein shows that he had planned the attack for years . The manhunt involved as many as 1,000 officers at times , some from other states . The search for the self-styled survivalist cost at least several million dollars . Frein 's capture took so long because he hid in a wooded area that took a long time to search , said state police Commissioner Frank Noonan . Community on edge . The hunt for Frein turned life upside down for people inside the search area . Helicopters buzzed overhead and police seemed to be everywhere , all the time . `` Every night , every day , but mostly at night , the helicopters would be flying over our house , waking us up at 1 o'clock in the morning , '' said Cory Batzel , in Swiftwater , Pennsylvania , before Frein was caught . The fugitive was reportedly spotted in a wooded area in the town of Swiftwater , about 8 miles southeast of the Canadensis area , where his family has a home . `` It 's kind of scary -- a little bit nerve-wracking -- because we live so close to it , '' said Marissa Labarre , who rode the bus to school with Frein when they were children . She remembered him as quiet , but not `` weird , '' and definitely not the type of person you 'd expect to kill a cop . `` You hear of stuff like this , but you never know the person , or it 's like hours from you . You know , it 's on the news but it 's not ever close to home . So it 's a little bit scary , '' said Labarre . CNN 's Pamela Brown , Rob Frehse , Susan Candiotti , Shimon Prokupecz , Faith Karimi and Evan Perez contributed to this report .
NEW : Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty for Frein , says district attorney . `` Justice will be served , '' says Pennsylvania Gov . Tom Corbett . Frein was armed with a pistol and a rifle , a source says . The self-styled survivalist is suspected in the September 12 ambush of two officers .