Bounty Hunter gets busted
Interesting short news item from
San Antonio KSAT.COM:
Officials: Texas Man Seeking Bin Laden Bounty Arrested
Authorities say a Texas man told agents at Detroit Metropolitan Airport he was headed to Syria to try to claim the $25 million bounty on Osama bin Laden.
Matt Mihsen of Fort Worth was arrested on charges of making false statements to federal investigators.
A federal complaint said he boarded a Northwest Airlines flight Tuesday at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, headed to the Netherlands and Syria by way of Detroit.
Customs agents at the Detroit airport questioned the naturalized U.S. citizen from Syria. The Detroit Free Press reports they agents found almost $14,000 in cash in Mihsen's luggage -- along with a stun gun, 40 rounds of ammunition, pepper spray, a bulletproof vest and three Geiger counters.
He's charged with making false statements to federal investigators and trying to smuggle bulk cash out of the country. He's also charged with trying to export money and goods to Syria in violation of a presidential executive order. That's punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
I can see stopping him and letting him fly home but to claim that he was going over there to fund terror just does not read correctly. Matt is probably more of a true patriot than any of Minetta's Morons at the airport. Security indeed...
Posted by DaveH at February 21, 2005 11:28 AM