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Attorney John Fuller has said that anyone who is connected with US sniper John Allen Muhammad will not leave the country. The head of the task force looking into the activities of US Sniper John Allen Muhammad has confirmed that one of Muhammad’s acquaintances in Antigua, Peter John Gianquinto jr. has been arrested in New York by federal authorities. The FBI is investigating connections between Muhummad and Gianquinto. According to an article in the Washington Post, Gianquinto left Antigua on 27 May, 2001, four days before Muhammad and John Lee Mavlo. He is now part of the broader inquiry into...

NEW YORK (AP)--A man wanted for questioning about the Washington-area sniper suspects is being held in a New York jail on passport fraud charges. Peter John Gianquinto Jr., a 53-year-old felon who has used several aliases, was arrested Nov. 4 as he left his doctor's office in Manhattan. He appeared in federal court the following day on charges he submitted a bogus Rutgers University ID card to obtain a passport. Authorities in the Caribbean island of Antigua have linked Gianquinto to sniper suspect John Muhammad, saying that the two men were seen there together several times. ``They purchased things together...

A number of steps are being taken to beef up security in the country. This follows information coming out of the preliminary report of the task force put in place to look into the circumstances of US sniper suspect, John Allen Williams-Muhammad, being able to obtain an Antigua & Barbuda passport. According to sources close to the investigation, indications are that Mohammad was able to slip forged documents past officials at the passport office. It was also revealed that Muhammad was part of a plan to kidnap Prime Minister Lester Bird for a ransom, as well as plans to rob...

The task force looking into the activities of US sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad is awaiting a report from the Commissioner of Police Truehart Smith as to whether any police officers aided Muhammad to escape from the St. John’s Police Station last March. Muhammad was detained by the police on 13 March, 2001 for attempting to check in someone under the name of Dwight Russell at the V.C. Bird International Airport, but later walked out of the Newgate Street police station. According to head of the task force Attorney John Fuller, based on the entry in the station’s diary, the...

Law enforcement officials are looking into a possible link between an unsolved Denton County slaying and the Washington-area, sniper suspects. Billy Gene Dillon, 37, was shot in the head May 27 while doing lawn work on Blagg Road. Investigators had said at the time they believed he had been killed with a high-velocity rifle at short range. The death was ruled a homicide, but no leads surfaced. Denton County sheriff's spokesman Kevin Patton said Friday that investigators last week sent handed over bullet fragments from Mr. Dillon's death to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for comparisons with bullets...

Nathaniel Osbourne, the Jamaican man living in New Jersey who was detained as a material witness in the Washington-area sniper attacks, has been released by the authorities after nearly two weeks in custody, the New York Times reported yesterday. Osbourne, 26, an aspiring reggae singer, was the subject of an intensive manhunt last month after it emerged that he co-owned the 1990 Chevrolet Caprice that sniper suspects, John Muhammad and Lee Malvo, used during the interstate killing spree. According to the Times, law enforcement officials have not charged Osbourne with any crime, and released him last Friday on the condition...

Airlines were unable to refuel at the V.C Bird International Airport yesterday. This is because line staff at Texaco West Indies Ltd., did not show up to work opting instead to take part in the civil disobedience, “down tools protest” called by the opposition United Progressive Party. The UPP is calling for a full probe in the passport scam. This forced the Gas Company, which is responsible for refuelling a number of airlines to make alternative arrangements. Area manager Ralphine Jackson confirmed to the SUN that a number of workers did not show up to work and as a result...

Protesters and supporters of the Opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) marched through the streets of St. John’s yesterday calling for a “ down tools protest” from businesses. The protest march caused a bottleneck of traffic in the City resulting in police re-routting traffic to ease the congestion. Chanting “We shall overcome” and “Lester you got to go” the protestors led by opposition leader, Baldwin Spencer headed up Market Street, down High Street, across Thames Street, up St. Mary’s Street, across Temple Street, down High Street up Long Street. They eventually wound their way down Corn Alley before making their way...

Early August 2002 - In Louisiana, John Muhammad showed his rifle to his first cousin Charlene Anderson, and also asked relatives where to buy ammunition. He eventually bought four boxes of .223 caliber ammo at a store on Hooper Road. Muhammad left his guns and ammunition padlocked in his duffel bag with Anderson for safekeeping while went away for a week. [This because of airport security]. He was then spotted by multiple persons on the island of Antigua shopping for furniture, and making some 'banking' arrangments. [Can anyone recall a certain $10 Million dollar electronic transfer ransom?] Muhammad and Malvo...

The mainstream media informed us this week that Lee Malvo, the reportedly "17-year-old" youth charged as a material witness in the sniper investigation along with John Mohammed, is a "Jamaican national." As of this writing (Oct. 24), the Immigration and Naturalization Service refused to comment publicly on the exact nature of Malvo's immigration status. Here are the facts the INS doesn't want you to know: Lee Malvo is an illegal alien from Jamaica who jumped ship in Miami in June 2001. He was apprehended by the Border Patrol in Bellingham, Wash., in December 2001, but was then let go by...

Investigators probe possible sniper link to Alabama liquor store MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Federal authorities are investigating whether a fatal shooting in Montgomery last September is linked to the sniper shootings in the Washington area, the mayor said. Mayor Bobby Bright said a caller to the sniper investigation tip line apparently claimed responsibility for both the sniper shootings and the Sept. 21 shooting outside a state liquor store. He said investigators asked for files on the shooting and evidence, including a bullet found at the scene, and local authorities complied. "We are fully cooperating, but we have no verification...

FOX: John Mohammed & Lee Melvo wanted for question in Sniper Case