Harris said Naor told FBI agents he was carrying a fake identification card to “get into clubs in Miami.” The sheriff declined to answer other questions concerning the investigation that is ongoing.
Move along folks nothing to see here.
Posted on 05/09/2004 3:51:42 PM PDT by who knows what evil?
By Ron Scalf
Erwin Bureau
rscalf@johnsoncitypress.com
ERWIN — Two Israeli nationals held here without bond in the Unicoi County Jail will appear in Unicoi County General Sessions Court this morning, Sheriff Kent Harris said Sunday. Harris said the FBI ordered him to hold the duo without bond pending an investigation following a high speed chase through a remote area of Unicoi County Saturday afternoon in which the pair reportedly threw several items out of a rented Ryder truck, Harris said
. “They ignored my blue lights for two and one half miles and they were traveling 20 miles an hour over posted speed limits,” he said.
One man’s passport had expired and the other had a fake identification card, the sheriff said. By Sunday morning, Harris had identified the man who refused to give his first name as Almaliach Naor who was in the company of Shnuel Daran, 22, both from Israel and living in Miami, Fla.
“Our investigation has revealed they were on their way to Boston, Massachusetts,” Harris said. “Also, a vial of an unknown substance appears to be some kind of accelerant because when shook, it becomes warm,” he said.
“I enlisted Ed Herndon, our homeland security officer, and the Tennessee Highway Patrol to run (preliminary) tests and the FBI has asked we package the vial up and send it to a crime lab. which we are inthe process of doing.”
A combing of the confiscated Ryder Truck “produced an odor of a liquid on a side panel of some kind that we will also send to the lab,” Harris said. “Other than that, the truck was clean,” he said.
Harris said his department worked through the night on Saturday positively identifying Naor and working with Interpol officials who late last night told the sheriff the two were not on any international wanted lists. Harris said the men entered the United States from Israel in January. It was not known what type of visas they were granted.
Harris said Naor told FBI agents he was carrying a fake identification card to “get into clubs in Miami.” The sheriff declined to answer other questions concerning the investigation that is ongoing.
Records at Unicoi County jail indicated Naor and Daran will face charges today on counts of criminal impersonation, reckless driving and lying to authorities about throwing items out of the truck, which they rented a short distance away in Mars Hill, N.C. Harris said the men told authorities they were moving furniture.
Following their arrest Saturday afternoon, the sheriff said he “had a sick feeling” when he found a “Learn to Fly” brochure in the truck, especially since the county is home to the Nuclear Fuel Services plant not far from downtown Erwin.
“This is still a very suspicious case,” Harris said Sunday as he reiterated the comment he made Saturday concerning the matter: “We’re living in a very different time. We all need to be vigilant when it comes to homeland security.”
They were stupid enough to shake it? What if it was a vial of something like mercury fulminate?
this's the logical rational for ethnic profilng, which IS NOT 'PC'....
Harris said Naor told FBI agents he was carrying a fake identification card to “get into clubs in Miami.” The sheriff declined to answer other questions concerning the investigation that is ongoing.
Move along folks nothing to see here.
Whatever. I believe that these two goobers are going to be guests of the county for quite a spell.
I wonder if they were supposed to meet someone who maybe has the ammonia nitrate?
Move along folks nothing to see here.
Is a way of saying "yes" there's something wrong and we aren't being given the whole story from the media or Gov't.
Two Israeli men have been arrested after evading Unicoi County, Tennessee sheriff`s deputies, driving eratically on a two lane highway, and littering.
But, there may be more to their apprehension than that. Sheriff Kent Harris says the stories they`ve been telling investigators simply don`t add up.
The two men led authorities on a three-mile high speed chase in a rented moving truck. Lt. Ron Arnold says one of the men had a fake Florida i.d. and passports found didn`t add up.
The FBI is now testing a bottle thrown from the truck during the pursuit. Robert White, the community member who found the bottle, says it had a powder and liquid in it. Sheriff Harris says the substance didn`t test for any type of drug, but did for a fuel source.
The driver, 23-year old Samuel Dahan and passenger 19-year old Almaliach Noar claim they were delivering furniture and were headed to Boston, Massachusetts.
Authorities found a couple of "learning to fly" business cards during a search of the moving truck. Both men are being held in seperate cells pending a bond hearing Monday morning. Investigators have determined both men are living in the United States legally.
"Did you get the trace, Rabbi?"
"No, darn it, they stopped speaking after 20 seconds!"
25-Foot RYDER TRUCK ping!
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Fascinating. On the 11:00 local news, it was reported that they had tourist visas.
"The MadCowMorningNews has learned that the elderly woman who (supposedly) provided the two Israelis arrested in Oak Harbor Washington with their alibi has—just one week later—moved, or disappeared, and cannot be found to corroborate her account.
In Oak Harbor, Washington, Fox News reported last week that two Israelis with altered passports were apprehended in a rental truck containing traces of TNT and plastic explosives on a state highway running past the home of a fleet of U.S. electronic spy planes, Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.
According to an FBI spokesman in Seattle, local police had pulled the Israelis over for speeding, and then became suspicious after one of the men was found to be in possession of an altered passport and the other was unable to produce any identification other than an Israeli driver's license." <>More at the link. Too, too wierd.
That MadCowMorningNews site is TOTAL nutter site, and that news story was debunked by Ashcroft.
Kinda surprising that a FReeper would look to such a nutball site for "news."
There is something wierd about these supposed Israelis and trucks going on.
That was just the first link which showed up when I tried to find the story on google.
In fact, the story morphed into a story about the men being Arabs, then was denied as being anything significant by Ashcroft himself.
The one time a man in a truck did manage to inflict catastrophic damage, he was homegrown terrorist, and not Jewish - McVeigh.
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