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Philadelphia Newscaster's Stalker Caught
Fugitive Caught In Bucks County

POSTED: 8:49 a.m. EST February 23, 2004
UPDATED: 9:05 a.m. EST February 23, 2004
MIFFLINTOWN, Pa. -- A mentally ill man who is suspected of leaving a fake
bomb at the airport in Philadelphia and stalking a TV newscaster is now in
custody.

Convicted stalker Preston Lit was caught Monday morning in Lower
Southampton, Pa.

Lit, 54, was reportedly dropping off a package at the Feasterville, Pa.,
post office when he was caught.

The Philadelphia man, who has a history of planting fake explosives, has
been targeting Philadelphia TV station WCAU newscaster Steve Levy.

Lit was also spotted at a central Pennsylvania hotel Saturday and a North
Jersey hotel on Friday.

Authorities believe Lit checked himself into a motel in Mifflintown around
7 p.m. Saturday night, then set a small fire in his room before fleeing.

FBI spokeswoman Linda Vizi said the fire was apparently caused by bed
sheets wrapped around a hot lamp.

When the motel's fire alarms sounded around midnight, Lit was gone, Vizi said.

"I'm concerned that his behavior is escalating," Vizi said. "Someone could
have been hurt here."

Lit became a fugitive last week when investigators said he left a package
intended to look like a bomb at Philadelphia International Airport.

He is also suspected having sent a suspicious package to WCAU-TV. Lit was
charged with harassing Levy in the 1990s.

The former electrician is currently on probation for leaving fake bombs in
mailboxes in Philadelphia about eight months after the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks.

The graffiti in the New Jersey hotel room reportedly included references
to Levy.

Lit was also charged in 1996 with harassing Levy and leading police on a
120-mile chase from Atlantic City, N.J., to Wilmington, Del.

Following that arrest, the unemployed electrician said he thought Levy was
Jesus and believed that the anchorman could control the weather.