Man On Terror Watchlist Stopped Then Let Go – Las Vegas
October 15, 2009 by Homeland Security NTARC News
Filed under Incident Reports
Fox news is reporting that a Somali man on the U.S. government’s terrorist watchlist was stopped last week by a police officer outside Las Vegas along with four other men, but the officer had no legal authority to detain the man so he was sent on his way, according to the report.
Apparently the story doesn’t end there. According to the Fox News ‘Liveshot’s report. Two days after the vehicle was pulled over outside Las Vegas, two of the passengers appeared at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing in San Ysidro, Calif.
According to court documents, they had been dropped off by a taxicab, and they told a customs official at the border crossing “that they would be flying from Tijuana airport to Mexico City airport, and [they] displayed airline tickets to the Officer.”
In several cases over the past decade, Mexico has been a waypoint for travel between the United States and Somalia.
Meanwhile, the driver of the rented vehicle, is the only one of the five Somali men to be facing charges so far.
He has been charged in a criminal complaint with lying to the FBI.
The officer who stopped the vehicle found $4,000 in the car and eventually learned that the driver’s wife had filed a missing persons report in Minneapolis. The officer contacted the FBI, which interviewed the man on Oct. 8.
