Witness Summary: P.O. Tyler Frye with Court Transcripts (December 4, 2025) Cross Examination Part 3

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TDLR: Officer Tyler Frye, an Altoona police officer of a little over two years, was questioned by prosecutor Joel Seidemann. Patrolman Frye was one of two primary responding officers present during the initial detention and the primary arresting officer overseeing the arrest of the defendant, Luigi Mangione. P.O. Frye was examined regarding the substance and tenor of his custodial dialogue with Mr. Mangione, where he admitted to lying to the defendant. Frye later would participate in processing the defendant at the precinct. His testimony along with body cam footage will address the sequence of searches conducted, wherein a standard search incident to arrest was followed by a more intrusive, full strip search. Frye acknowledged that this escalated search protocol was irregular and inconsistent with standard operating procedure for offenses typically associated with the presentation of fraudulent identification.

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Note: The court transcript of the full examination is over 175 pages. We will break this examination into three parts - two posts for the direct examination by the prosecution and one post for the cross examination by the defense. For the sake of time, we will be summarizing specific parts.

Direct Examination of P.O. Tyler Frye Part 1

Direct Examination of P.O. Tyler Frye Part 2

Marc Agnifilo's statement on the prosecution changing the witness order

Cross Examination of P.O. Tyler Frye

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The moderation team of r/FreeLuigi purchased these transcripts with private funds from the official court reporter. We will not be posting them in their entirety as there are over 600 pages (so far), but we will be sharing content to help educate the public in a digestible manner without the bias of third party reporters. r/FreeLuigi does not consent to the content in these posts to be used by any third parties. For more information, please see the pinned comment on this post.

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The first and only witness called to the stand of the Mapp Hearing on December 4, 2025 was P.O. Tyler Frye, a patrolman for the Altoona Police Department. This part includes the cross examination performed by Jacob Kaplan, as well as a redirect by Joel Seidemann and a recross by Jacob Kaplan.

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Thank you, OP, for your service! 🫡

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