FYI: post a source link.
Reno Gazette-Journal Online
Sounds like a story one would find in the "Marxist-Leninist Daily."
You could've screamed at him for duplicate too.
Here's one source...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/11/29/state1820EST0095.DTL