Posted on 04/02/2014 8:38:44 PM PDT by digger48
RUSH COUNTY, Ind. - The FBI says a 91-year-old Indiana man who collected thousands of archeological artifacts over his lifetime may have acquired some of them improperly.
At a news conference Wednesday, the FBI could not say if Donald Miller would face charges for his collection in Waldron. Dozens of agents were at Miller's farm to collect and process the artifacts.
It happened in Waldron, a classic, quiet, one-stoplight Indiana town
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Several people in Waldron said the house was like a museum, that school groups and Scout troops would go on regular tours.
The FBI has around 100 agents at the farm and they say it could take them up to a week to figure out what all the artifacts are. They've brought in a team of outside experts of archeologists and anthropologists to help.
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"Over the last several months a FBI investigation has determined Mr. Miller may have knowingly or unknowingly collected artifacts relics and objects which may have been a violation of several treaties, federal, and state statues," said FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Jones.
(Excerpt) Read more at wthr.com ...
I knew someone who had their house raided - by mistake - and they stole everything in sight. Never got a thing back.
OK, it’s kind of red neck.
Some Indian tribe got browned off?
100 agents?? really?
Not saying he did any of that....but that is the type of thing they mean. I am willing to be the has Native American stuff from reservations. That is a big no no.
Could be stuff he collected at garage sales that was at one time dug up from reservations....
Maybe he had a Indian friend he bought it from not knowing it was from there....
If I have a friend from the rez and they give me some old artifact am I breaking the law or are they?
What, no tanks? Well, you know, just in case they have trouble with that 91 year old guy, and they can't handle him.
This has to be a joke.
DHS was called in to shake down someone wearing Google Glass at a theater — apparently they enforce the copyright laws now.
No real reason to do so other than that they could....
No, it doesn’t.
The man is getting quite old, I am betting the Fed Gov is looking to increase the amount of artifact the Smithsonian has...
You know before his children get any of them, think of it as the "Death Artifact Tax"....
But you know it would be hardship for the Child molesting inbred DuPont Heir to actually go to Jail, but you can be assured this 91 year old man will be sent to the clink to die....
It's part of Liberty.
But the cops got home safely at the end of their shifts. It’s all that matters. I hope they didn’t have a dog.
May have?
Do they evidence for this?
“For example, you cannot wander around on a civil war battlefield and dig stuff up.
Not saying he did any of that....but that is the type of thing they mean. I am willing to be the has Native American stuff from reservations. That is a big no no.”
I thought ex post facto laws were a big no no also. How long has it been “illegal” to posess these things? Taking it off the rez or a battle field is wrong but who knows how he came by this stuff.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office said John Warna, a 95-year-old resident of a senior living community in Park Forest, Ill., died of blunt force trauma of the abdomen after police shot him with bean bag rounds.
Police officers were called to the assisted living home on Friday to help employees of a private ambulance company involuntarily transfer Warna to a clinic for medical treatment. The senior citizen had allegedly threatened the facility’s staff and paramedics with a metal cane and a 2-foot shoehorn because he did not want to check into the hospital. "
Should I live so long, I'm going down fighting too.
according to the article, he didn’t have any children.
This was something he and his wife did together.
Read throught the links at the end of the article. He tells of his involvement in the testing of the Atomic Bomb and the process the military put him through to get there.
Can’t be many of those guys left.
Whole damned gov is upside down with government agencies doing things they are not supposed to be doing or other agency’s jobs...
Yeah, I am betting the National Forest Service will be issuing regulations concerning children’s nutrition...
Hell, NASA is doing Moose-Limb outreach, next thing NOAA will be doing analysis on the work habit of High Schoolers with part time jobs who are illegal immigrants and the Dept of Agriculture will be providing Free School Lunches to those illegal alien students... Wait they actually are providing those lunches...
“If I have a friend from the Res’ and they give me some old artifact, am I breaking the law or are they?”
These days...hang on to your receipts!
“If I have a friend from the Res’ and they give me some old artifact, am I breaking the law or are they?”
These days...hang on to your receipts!
Wow, that’s a great find!
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