Jurors have found McAdoo resident Shawn Christy guilty on all counts in his federal trial stemming from a 95-day manhunt in summer 2018.

Christy represented himself during the trial.

Shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday, jurors returned a guilty verdict on 11 charges, including threats against the president, threatening communications, interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle, interstate transport of stolen firearm, possessing a firearm while facing a felony charge, and being a fugitive in possession of a firearm.

Jurors found Christy guilty on a final, twelfth count – being a known felon in possession of a firearm – a short time later. Judge Robert Mariani wanted that count tried separately because it required telling the jury that Christy had previously been convicted of a felony.

During five days of testimony, federal prosecutors presented more than 20 witnesses -- mostly local, state and federal law enforcement officials who participated in the manhunt which spanned six states and Canada.

“Nobody else made him steal guns, steal vehicles, steal food – he did it himself,” Assistant US Attorney Francis Sempa said in his opening statement.

Christy was arrested Sept. 21, 2018 in Ohio after he abandoned a vehicle which was reported stolen from Hazleton.

Sempa called Christy a “one-man crime wave” who stole numerous vehicles and made multiple online threats which federal agents took seriously.

Christy claimed that he fled law enforcement because he felt he was a victim of police corruption in Schuylkill County.

“I didn’t feel safe for my life, I didn’t feel safe for my family’s life,” he said in his closing statement.

The manhunt began on May 20, 2018, after Christy missed a scheduled jury selection in his trial for a 2017 assault on the then-mayor of McAdoo Borough.

A few weeks later, it intensified after Christy posted on his facebook that he would use “Full lethal force” against any officer who attempted to arrest him, and posted that he would put a bullet in the head of President Donald J. Trump and Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli.

Prosecutors presented surveillance videos from two businesses in Luzerne County showing Christy stealing vehicles. Another video presented by the prosecution showed Christy inside the home of Medal of Honor Recipient Dakota Meyer in Kentucky.

Meyer testified against Christy during the fourth day of the trial. He told jurors that based on online comments made by Christy and his father, he felt there was a threat to his family.

During closing arguments, Sempa played the jury a recording taken Northeast Ohio Correctional Center which captured Christy bragging about several of the break-ins and vehicle thefts which occurred throughout the manhunt.

Christy took the stand in his own defense on the fifth day of the trial, but withdrew his testimony after he learned that doing so meant he could not plead the fifth when facing cross examination from prosecutors.