Airport security might need to be tighter...

#1

http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? ... 60324/1007

A 34-year-old Dallas man was arrested at Detroit Metro Airport on Tuesday, carrying $78,883 in cash and a laptop computer containing mysterious files about cyanide and nuclear materials.

Authorities said Sisayehiticha Dinssa, a U.S. citizen who was born in Ethiopia, was arrested after getting off an airline flight from Amsterdam. They said he had spent four months in Nigeria on unspecified business.

When agents asked him whether he had any cash to declare, he said he had $18,000, authorities said. But when agents checked his luggage, they found an additional $60,883. When they scrolled through his laptop, they said they found the mysterious files. Dinssa told agents he was interested in learning about cyanide and nuclear materials.

Federal Magistrate Judge Donald Scheer approved Assistant U.S. Attorney Leonid Feller's request to detain Dinssa pending a detention hearing on Monday. Between now and then, Feller said, agents would try to find out more about him and the computer files.

He is charged with concealing more than $10,000 in his luggage, which carries a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison, plus forfeiture of the money.

His lawyer, Deputy Federal Defender Leroy Soles, couldn't be reached for comment.

By David Ashenfelter

#2

Wow. I don't know why you would carry that much money around in cash and have that kind of info on your computer unless you were gonna do something drastic

#3

a man comes back from a few months in nigeria, misdeclares 60,000 dollars, and has a laptop full of small scale nuclear information of the tactical sort... and cyanide, of all things.

I don't care if he is blonde blue eyes born on the 4th of July under the liberty bell and named Benjamin Jefferson Lincoln... in this day and age, with these threats abroad,.. you mangle him until he is writing his life story with ink from the pools of his blood, and using parts of his open fractures for a quill, and suggesting who you cast in the made for TV movie after this hits the news.

he's got the 60K lurking, you put him in jail and investigate.
he's got the small tactical nuke stuff on his lap top, you investigate.
he's got cyanide, you detain him and investigate.

he's got COLD cash, small tactical nuke stuff, AND cyanide... you kneecap the bish right there.

#4

I wish there was a way to keep a beat ont his story, I'd love to see where this one goes...

And I definitely agree, this fucker should be underneath Leavenworth until we know what's up with that...

#5

QUOTE(raum @ Nov 17 2006, 03:51 AM) Dinssa told agents he was interested in learning about cyanide and nuclear materials.

If that's the case, they should chuck him headfirst into this, all the cyanide he can get...

#6

lmao @ raum

"...Benjamin Jefferson Lincoln..."