By Gary Horcher and Essex Porter 
 
 A joint investigative team of FBI and ATF agents spent hours Tuesday searching a well-built underground bunker discovered in a thickly-wooded area near East Lake Sammamish. 
 
 The Seattle office of the FBI said the cache’s location in challenging terrain was discovered through the investigation of 46-year-old Bradley Steven Robinett, a convicted bank robber who escaped his supervised release in August 2009. 
 
 “We followed those clues much like one would follow a treasure hunt put together by children. We knew to look for a certain type of tree, a certain type of ravine," said Special Agent Ayn Dietrich-Williams, FBI spokeswoman. 
 
 Click here to see raw video of the bunker. 
 
 According to Washington’s Western District of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Robinett was arrested in Hillsboro, Oregon, in June 2014 after being on the run for nearly five years. 
 
 According to court filings, Robinett was convicted of bank robbery, and in 2004 was sentenced to seven years in prison. In August, 2009, he was released from a federal prison in Arizona and put on a bus to Seattle with the requirement that he report to a halfway house within 48 hours. 
 
 Robinett never reported to the halfway house and a warrant was issued for his arrest. 
 
 In September, 2009, police on Bainbridge Island attempted to stop a car that led them on a high speed chase. 
 
 Police said Robinett was driving the car, but he abandoned it and was able to elude officers. 
 
 Authorities said inside the car officers found a Glock 9 mm pistol and a ballistic vest that had been stolen from the Seattle Police Department several years earlier. 
 
 Before he was arrested last June, law enforcement said the last time they saw Robinett was in November, 2009, when Washington State Patrol detectives encountered him driving a stolen car at a Park and Ride facility in Bellevue. 
 
 Police say Robinett attempted to ram a WSP vehicle before fleeing, and though the trooper driving the vehicle managed to avoid a crash, Robinett was able to escape. The trooper Robinett tried to run down was at the bunker today. 
 
 “It's nice to have some resolution. It's nice to have some loose ends tied up,” said Detective Sgt. Jeff Maijala. 
 
 The vehicle Robinett was driving was reported stolen in Oregon, which led to his arrest. 
 
 On Jan. 29, he pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Seattle to escape, being a felon in possession of a firearm and interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle. He faces more than 12 years in prison when he is sentenced in May. 
 
 The former Marine also managed to escape police in 2011 by stealing a kayak and paddling into Puget Sound. 
 
 Neighbors who live in a nearby East Lake Sammamish condominium complex were very surprised to hear that Robinett, while featured as a dangerous fugitive on the show “America’s Most Wanted,” was likely sneaking through the condo’s parking lot to his hidden bunker in the woods for years. 
 
 "I'm sure I've walked right by (the bunker)," neighbor Jake Lasody said. 
 
 “The thing is, I've walked up that hill and walked all around, I’ve walked my dog up in there and I’ve never ever seen a thing. (An FBI agent) said the bunker was literally fifteen steps over the hill which is literally two minutes from my doorstep, which I can't believe!" 
 
 The FBI took the extraordinary step of showing the bunker to the public because agents want people to be on the lookout for similar bunkers or caches around the state that might belong to Robinett or other criminals. 
 
 “We continue our investigation on the serial murderer Israel Keys and we know that he hid caches throughout Washington State. 
 
 Some of these caches can be big as the 8-by-10 bunker related to Israel Keys or someone else. It could be as small as a bunker just buried a few feet underground,” Dietrich-Williams said. 
 
 Want to talk about the news of the day? Watch free streaming video on the KIRO 7 mobile app and iPad app, and join us here on Facebook. ||||| (CNN) -- French gangster Redoine Faid, the subject of an international manhunt after his brazen escape from a prison last month, is back in custody, the country's Interior Ministry said Wednesday. 
 
 Faid held five people, including four guards, at gunpoint at a detention center in the northern city of Lille on April 13, officials said. 
 
 He then burst his way to freedom, detonating explosives to destroy five doors. 
 
 Early Wednesday, French police arrested Faid, labeled France's "public enemy No. 1," at a hotel in the Seine-et-Marne region to the east of Paris, the ministry said. 
 
 Between 70 and 80 police officers took part in the predawn raid, Lille prosecutor Frederic Fevre told reporters. Faid was asleep and offered no resistance when police entered his hotel room. 
 
 An accomplice was with him in the room and has been taken into custody, Fevre said. Police found one firearm in the room and another in a car parked nearby. 
 
 During his six weeks on the run, Faid had worn a wig and let his beard grow in order not to be recognized, Fevre said. 
 
 He'd changed location frequently but has connections in the area where he was caught, the prosecutor said. 
 
 "When you are on the run, you need a lot of money and you need to separate yourself from all your close relatives," said Fevre. 
 
 He suggested Faid had failed to meet one or both of these requirements. 
 
 As well as the jailbreak, Faid is suspected in the murder of a policewoman in 2010 and faces a possible life sentence, Fevre said. 
 
 However, he won't go back to the Sequedin prison from which he made his audacious escape, Fevre said. The four guards Redoine took hostage in April are still on medical leave, he added. 
 
 Inspired by the movies 
 
 Faid fashioned himself as a modern-day gangster. 
 
 He thought big -- getting inspiration from the movies, as when he wore a hockey mask like Robert DeNiro's character in "Heat" -- and acted boldly, attacking armored trucks among other targets. 
 
 In his 2010 autobiography, "Robber: From Suburbs to Organized Crime," Faid chronicled his progression from a petty thief to one of France's most notorious criminals. 
 
 In 1998, after three years on the run during which he fled to Switzerland, Faid was finally caught. Sentenced to 20 years, he ended up spending more than 10 years in high-security prisons around France. 
 
 After getting out, Faid put himself out there -- not only with his book, but as the subject of numerous interviews. 
 
 The Frenchman insisted he'd sworn off his wicked ways. 
 
 This promise didn't last for long. 
 
 In 2011, Faid landed back behind bars. 
 
 There he stayed until his dramatic escape last month. 
 
 Authorities issued a European arrest warrant covering 26 countries, and Interpol worked to track him down as well. 
 
 On Wednesday, that hunt came to an end. 
 
 CNN's Laura Smith-Spark contributed to this report. ||||| Image copyright IBO/SIPA/REX/Shutterstock Image caption Redoine Faid (pictured in 2010) 
 
 Rédoine Faïd, a French gangster who broke out of jail using a hijacked helicopter in July, has been recaptured. 
 
 The country's most wanted fugitive, he was detained north of Paris, reportedly with his brother and two men. 
 
 Faïd, 46, is a fan of gangster films, which he credits with teaching him how to pull off raids. 
 
 He was first arrested in 1998 for armed robbery. The 1 July jailbreak was his second and most dramatic escape. 
 
 He was sprung from a prison in Réau, south-east of Paris, by three heavily armed men who broke into the visitors' room. They then bundled him into a helicopter flown by a flying instructor who had been taken hostage. 
 
 Faïd had been serving a 25-year sentence for masterminding a botched robbery in which a policewoman was killed in 2010. 
 
 He was recaptured in the early hours of Wednesday in the town of Creil. 
 
 French Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet told Europe 1 radio: "We're going to put him in a high-security facility where he will be watched extremely closely." 
 
 Image copyright AFP Image caption Redoine Faïd was arrested overnight in his hometown, Creil 
 
 The arrest came hours after Interior Minister Gérard Collomb - the country's top law-enforcement official - resigned to run for mayor in Lyon, France's second-largest city. 
 
 The move is regarded as a fresh setback for President Emmanuel Macron, whose popularity has fallen sharply in recent weeks. The interior ministry will be temporarily headed by Prime Minister Édouard Philippe. 
 
 Who is Rédoine Faïd? 
 
 Born in 1972, he grew up in Creil. In the 1990s he ran a gang involved in armed robbery and extortion. 
 
 He has said Hollywood movies, such as the Al Pacino thriller Scarface, inspired his lifestyle and some of his schemes. 
 
 During a 1997 attack on a security van, he used and his accomplices used ice-hockey goalkeeper masks, mimicking Robert de Niro's gang in the film Heat. 
 
 He later said he had watched that movie "hundreds of times" on DVD and once told its director, Michael Mann, at a Paris film festival: "You were my technical adviser." 
 
 Image copyright AFP Image caption Redoine Faid was placed on Interpol's most-wanted list after his 2013 escape 
 
 His fame was helped by a 2009 book outlining his younger days on the streets of Paris and his descent into the life of a professional criminal. 
 
 That earned him the nickname "L'Écrivain" - or "the writer" - among French police. 
 
 Timeline of a jailbreaker 
 
 Faïd's cycle of imprisonment and escape began with his arrest in 1998 for armed robbery and bank theft.
– The homeless man fatally shot in a scuffle with police on LA's Skid Row on Sunday was identified as Charley Saturmin Robinet, a French citizen. But it turns out the real Robinet "is alive and in France," the French consul general in LA tells the Los Angeles Times. The now-dead LA man stole Robinet's identity and used it to get a French passport and enter the US in the late 1990s, Axel Cruau says: "He fooled a lot of people, including us, years ago." The strange part: French officials may have been fooled initially, but they ultimately figured things out because of a bank robbery. The man who stole Robinet's identity was convicted of robbing a Wells Fargo branch in 2000, and as he neared release in 2013, French officials stumbled upon the real Robinet in France. French authorities informed the US of the identity theft, but Cruau says he doesn't know what happened after that. The AP reports that the fake Robinet would typically have been deported after serving his sentence, but since he wasn't actually French, France wouldn't take him. The man spent six months in a halfway house in advance of his May 2014 release; a warrant was issued in January after he didn't report to his probation officer as required. In Sunday's incident, police were responding to reports of a robbery in LA when the scuffle occurred and the fake Robinet was killed, Heavy reports.