Suspect Left Jamaica in Early Teens (PC Whitewash Alert

AP via NYTimes ^ | 10-24-02 | AP

[frmrda]

Suspect Left Jamaica in Early Teens

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 9:27 p.m. ET

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- A 17-year-old arrested as one of two suspects in the Washington-area sniper shootings left Jamaica in his early teens and moved to another Caribbean island before migrating to the United States, his father and Jamaican officials said Thursday.

John Lee Malvo, 17, was arrested with Army veteran John Allen Muhammad as they slept at a roadside rest stop near Frederick, Md. Police say the two are the suspects in a three-week series of sniper attacks in the suburban Washington D.C. area that left 10 people dead.

``This morning I woke up and heard the news and I said 'That sounds like my son,''' said Leslie Malvo, 55, a building contractor in Kingston, Jamaica.

``He was a nice kid so I don't know how he got mixed up in this,'' he told The Associated Press at a street corner near his home in the city's central Waltham Park neighborhood.

Jamaica's Foreign Affairs Ministry said a Lee Boyd Malvo is registered as having been born in Kingston on Feb. 18, 1985, to Una James and Leslie Samuel Malvo, and a Lee Malvo attended high school in Jamaica before emigrating to another Caribbean island in 1998 at age of 13.

``Local school records show no evidence of disruptive behavior and point to the attainment of an academic standard that was satisfactory,'' a statement from the ministry said.

Leslie Malvo said he last saw his son in 1998.

There were local media reports that John Lee Malvo and Allen may have met in Antigua, where the local Observer Radio reported that Allen lived around 1999. It quoted unidentified tellers saying Allen had a bank account on the island, which has been criticized by the United States for lax supervision in a tax-free haven.

U.S. authorities said Malvo listed Allen as his father -- apparently a stepfather -- when he enrolled in high school in Bellingham, Wash., last year.

Rohan Malvo, a 33-year-old cabinet maker and son of Leslie Malvo, remembered changing the diapers of a half brother he called ``Lee.''

``Somebody saw a photograph of him today and said we resemble each other,'' he told the AP in Waltham Park, where they lived when they were children. It's a working-class neighborhood with concrete slab houses and some tin shacks, where stray dogs roam and children play on potholed streets.

He said Lee Malvo was 5 or 6 years old when his mother moved from the neighborhood.

Police traced Malvo to a house in Tacoma, Wash. that was searched Wednesday. He had been living in the house with Muhammad, a source told the AP.

Classmates who remember Lee Malvo from a three-month attendance at Bellingham High School said he was studious, polite and well-dressed -- but did not make any friends.

``He would speak up and he would tell his opinion. You don't get that from many high school students,'' said Chrissie Greenawalt, who went to a writing class with Malvo. ``I thought that was cool.''

[frmrda]

Notice how they give John Mohammed's full name at first then refer to him w/ one cxception (editor must have missed it) as "Allen".

I wonder if they would refer to Lee Harvey Oswald as "Harvey".

[kellynla]

And where was the INS while this kid was roaming around America? The INS is a joke and should be abolished! Start fresh with a new department of immigration with the teeth to deport all illegals and start guarding our borders! We are at war and just like in WWII those who might be enemies of this country should be scrutinized to the highest degree.

[patriciaruth]

There are going to be some stories the media will not tell us in detail if at all, so if anyone runs across information, please ping me.

DRUGS.

Nation of Islam.

Older man unrelated to juvenile living together.

[Shermy]

"Allen" had a bank account in Antigua. Wonder if any monies from Saudi or Yemen floated through there.

And did the boy adopt the first name of his "play father?"

[Palladin]

Hmmmm...that "other" Caribbean island that Malvo went to wouldn't happen to be Cuba, would it?

[Palladin]

Makes you wonder if the young kid was hustling to make a living, until Papa John picked him up.

[Shermy]

Well, the story from a Malkin article that the boy and his mother illegally immigrated from Jamaica. I assumed directly. But now they are in Antigua, and link up there. Or was the mother there? she sounds poor, I doubt she went there (if at all) to play with the jet set.

I suspect there's something up in Antigua.

[patriciaruth]

Koran 76:19 And round about them will serve boys of perpetual freshness: if thou seest them, thou wouldst think them scattered pearls.

[DoughtyOne]

Here's the question of the day. How could the INS release a sixteen year old illegal immigrant boy on his own recognizance? He had not adult supervision, no place to stay, no visible income. He was a friggin minor!!!!

[Parley Baer]

The AP and the NY Times. Both are embraced in a suicide jump off a cliff with BS news stories.

[aristeides]

And did the boy adopt the first name of his "play father?"

Yes, I noticed that the article called him "Lee", not "John Lee." So probably so. Wonder why he kept last name Malvo.

I also wonder how long Williams/Muhammad lived on Antigua. 1999 would have been after the failure of the karate school in Tacoma.

[Arkinsaw]

It doesn't matter, he is going to be a permanent resident of the United States of America now. For however long that might be.

[sheik yerbouty]

The snipers? "Dem effa get a beatin". mon!

[Lewite]

If the INS had not failed to do their job, there would had been one less sniper-murderer!!!!

[Professional]

Uh, yeah, that is a pretty darn good question...

[wai-ming]

Leslie Malvo said he last saw his son in 1998.

Dumb question for you, Mr. Malvo:

Where did you think your son was for the last four years? Did you even care to check up on him, find out who he was hanging out with, etc.?

If he were my son, I wouldn't let him wander a "foreign country" unsupervised as a teenager. He would have been grounded long ago.

[Shermy]

Turns out Mr. Muhammad is Caribbean too, of "Antiguan descent." Maybe visiting relatives or something.

www.cananews.com

Jamaican among suspects in US sniper attacks

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The Jamaican Embassy in Washington Thursday confirmed that a young man arrested in connection with Washington D.C.-area sniper shootings is a citizen of Jamaica, while stating that the other suspect in the case was of Antiguan-decent.

There more text to this story, but apparently one has to subscribe to the service.

WhaddyaItellyou about the tarot card!

[IamHD]

I have a question, if you can answer it. Why on earth is this little murdering SOB now in a juvenile detention center? (according to FOX) they are awaiting arrival of his "parents" so that his miranda rights can be read to him. This is really infuriating, don't you think?

[Bella]

You've got that right..