SPC auction buyers aroused suspicion St. Petersburg Times 10-23-04
The two men appeared to be Middle Eastern.
"They said they were interested in vehicles," said Weaver, St. Petersburg College's supervisor of institutional services. They didn't say why.
While Abdalla Deiab didn't buy the college's surplus ambulance or three other vehicles, public records suggest he may have acquired a similar vehicle elsewhere.
A 1997 Navistar 4700 - commonly used as an ambulance or utility truck - was registered in April to Deiab's former address on Shelley Street in Clearwater, according to state records. It is the same address he wrote on the bids he submitted to SPC for a used ambulance, two former police training cruisers and a large truck.
The Navistar was registered under Mintulla Inc., a defunct corporation. Deiab was not an officer in the company, but he did apply for a fictitious business name similar to Mintulla Inc. It was Mintulla International.
Your names are new to me, so welcome. See #1348 for related postings on the ambulance purchasers, and thanks for the posts.
Thank you both for the valuable contribution, much appreciated. This is a very interesting story to say the least