Just Another ANgry White Guy...

[SINthysist]

Although he looks African-American as all hell and has a Muslim name...

So much for sniper theories. At least he was in the Army.

 

[Starblayde]

huh? you know something the FBI don't?

 

[SINthysist]

I've been to three websites this morning detailing the Arrest of a man and his step-son sleeping in a search area in a car matching one of the earlier witness descriptions...

Lots of information!

They think they got their man.

 

[Starblayde]

They saw some guy in a white van and nicked him. *yawn*

 

[SINthysist]

An exerpt from CNN

Since my freinds here HATE Fox...

Sources identified the two as John Allen Muhammad, 42 -- a Gulf War veteran named in a federal arrest warrant for firearms violations who was being sought as a material witness in the sniper case -- and his 17-year-old stepson John Lee Malvo, a Jamaican citizen.

They were taken to an undisclosed location in Montgomery County and questioned. The string of deadly shootings began in the county three weeks ago, and the most recent victim linked to the sniper was killed there Tuesday. (Trail of the sniper)

A federal search warrant was being sought, but one official told CNN no weapon was found in a preliminary check of the car.

The Baltimore Sun reported Wednesday that authorities got a break in the case from a recent phone call believed to be from the sniper, who said that investigators should "take him seriously" and "check with the people in Montgomery," or words to that effect.

The newspaper said police then checked recent shootings in Montgomery, Alabama, and found a double shooting outside a liquor store on September 21 that involved .223 caliber ammunition -- the same type used by the sniper.

Police found a piece of paper bearing Malvo's fingerprint at the scene, the newspaper reported. Malvo, authorities learned, lived with Muhammad.

Montgomery Mayor Bobby Bright told CNN that sniper task force investigators "came to us two days ago ... (and) we gave them the evidence we collected in the case." Bright said the fingerprint was among that evidence, but investigators "have not officially authenticated it."

Early Thursday, Muhammad and Malvo were sleeping in a blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice, which a motorist and attendant recognized as matching the description of a vehicle authorities were looking for -- a blue or burgundy 1990 Chevrolet Caprice with New Jersey license plate NDA 21Z.

They notified police, who relayed the tip to the sniper task force, which immediately dispatched officers to the scene some 50 miles northwest of Washington.

The rest area is along a seven-mile stretch of Interstate 70 near Myersville, Maryland, that had been shut down in a dragnet launched just a few hours earlier by Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose, the head of the sniper task force.

Moose announced that Muhammad had been named in the federal warrant and was believed to have information pertinent to the sniper case. He asked the public to be on the lookout for Muhammad. Moose said Muhammad was not a suspect in the shootings, but should be considered "armed and dangerous."

"A strong word of caution -- do not assume ... from this allegation that John Allen Muhammad, also known as John Allen Williams, is involved in any of the shootings we are investigating," Moose said.

After the October 3 shooting of Pascal Charlot, 72, in Washington, D.C., law enforcement officials searched for a burgundy Chevrolet Caprice. One such car was later found burned out in the D.C. area, but it was never determined if it had anything to do with the fatal shooting.

Ten people have been killed and three have been wounded in Maryland, Virginia and Washington since the shootings began October 2.

 

[Starblayde]

Reminds me of a magazine piece i read a few weeks ago. America's Special Forces men are going back home and killing their spouses.

It seems they're trained to kill everything in sight and it doesnt stop on the battlefield, one woman even killed her husband in self defence.

 

[Weird Harold]

They think they got their man.

The 24 hours news channels think "they've got their man." The police aren't saying anything.

I think this guy sounds like a prime suspect if 10% of the "facts" the news channels have dug up are true. (Which happens to be about twice what you can trust from the media when it's in a feeding frenzy like it's been in overnight.)

 

[SINthysist]

They have him tied to a shooting in his hometown with a .223.

He and the kid stayed in the Sally...

They're sure!

 

[DéjàNu]

Could they get a death sentence in the States they have killed people?

 

[Weird Harold]

Could they get a death sentence in the States they have killed people?

Yes. One of the State Attorneys General has already said they would seek the death penalty when the sniper was caught -- Maryland's I think, because it was right after the first shooting spree.

 

[Lost Cause]

Death Penalty...

I think Virginia is the only state of the bunch with a death penalty. If the Feds can link a terrorist thing to it, I say military tribunal and firing squad! They might kill themselves in jail hopefully.

 

[JerseyBoy]

I think this would be a good time to bring back stoning...

 

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