Posted on 10/02/2013 1:28:15 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A judge set bail at $1 million Wednesday for a man accused of telling security screeners at the Jacksonville International Airport he had a bomb in his backpack, prompting the evacuation of the airport. Authorities did not find any explosives.
Zeljko Causevic, 39, remained silent during his brief hearing before Duval County Court Judge Russell Healey on charges of making a false report about planting a bomb and possessing a hoax bomb.
According to a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office arrest report, Causevic, a U.S. citizen who is originally from Bosnia, approached a Transportation Security Administration agent Tuesday, saying he had a device in his camouflage backpack that was “supposed to be a bomb, but it’s not.” Inside the backpack, officials found a small luggage scale with two batteries and a microchip. He told authorities he had a “detonator,” which was a remote control device, and his bag also contained a cellphone.
The Joint Terrorism Task Force interviewed Causevic and he was arrested.
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Damned Mennonites...
$1 Million bond? The man must have been wealthy.
Hang him...
Reading that third paragraph just makes me go “What the heck????”
So they still haven’t caught a terrorist?
TSA batting 1000
I can tell you one thing for sure, he was stupid.
What did he think would happen when he tried to get on a plane with something that “looked like a bomb,” in his words, even though it was not?
There’s a lot of organized crime activity among the Bosnian refugees (particularly among Albanians) and I wouldn’t be in the least surprised if this had something to do with crime, perhaps part of an extortion attempt. But fortunately, nobody ever said criminals were the sharpest knives in the drawer.
Zeljko doesn't sound like a Muslim name. I don't know about the surname--whether that indicates what his ethnic background is (Muslim, Orthodox, or Catholic).
I don’t know whether he’s Muslim or one of the other groups. Another report that I read said that he was “known to counterterrorism agencies,” so I guess maybe the reason the bail is so high is that they were already watching him.
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