FBI looking into trucker arrest
By Mike Gaines / Sun-Times Staff
Two Arab individuals with Canadian identification were detained by White County Detective John Slater and Officer Brent Bittle Monday night after Slater spotted the 18-wheeler they were driving stopped at a Rose Bud Quick Stop about 5:20 p.m. Monday.
Slater thought that was unusual. "You never see 18-wheelers getting fuel at a little quick shop like that in Rose Bud Arkansas."
Detective Slater decided to run the trucks tags, but didn't get any information back. He pulled around to the side and saw the two middle eastern individuals. The two men spotted the patrol car , hurriedly entered the semi and left the parking lot.(snip)
It is still unknown why the men fled Detective Slater, and a search of the contents of the privately owned truck turned up flowers that were being delivered to Wal-Mart stores.(snip)
The men have been released on their own recognizance due to insufficient charges to hold them on.
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Suspects, described as Middle Eastern by cops, taunted Jewish students near West Brighton school
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
By AARON SMITH
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE
Four Staten Islanders have been charged with a bias crime for allegedly yelling anti-Semitic slurs at Jewish students in West Brighton, and students said it is just the latest in a spate of anti-Semitic incidents to occur near their school.
The suspects are accused of getting into a dispute with Jewish students near Yeshiva Tiferes Torah on Delafield Avenue at 11:45 a.m. on Monday. Identified by police as Middle-Eastern, the defendants were charged with yelling ethnic slurs at the victims, who were wearing yarmulkes.(snip)
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