NEW YORK - One of the men wanted in the cold-blooded Brooklyn shooting of two police officers was captured Wednesday in northeastern Pennsylvania, police officials said.

Police caught ex-convict Dexter Bostic shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Pocono Mountains, said Paul Browne, chief spokesman for the New York Police Department. Another suspect, Robert J. Ellis, was with Bostic at the time but escaped on foot and was still at large, Browne added.

Browne declined further comment, saying NYPD officials would detail the capture at a news conference Wednesday evening.

In a telephone interview, Lt. Brian Kimmins, of the Stroud Area Regional Police Department, said that Bostic was captured after a motorist reported recognizing the wanted men as they walked along a remote stretch of Interstate 80. Teams of NYPD and local officers, sometimes using bloodhounds, had been searching for the suspects after receiving a tip the pair “had made it into the area sometime Monday,” he said.

Bostic and Ellis, both 34, had been the subjects of an intense manhunt since disappearing Monday following a shooting that left one of the patrolmen near death.