Posted on 03/03/2005 2:03:22 PM PST by CaptainK
FBI pick up a former tenant of the home. He used their ATM card.
Waiting for more details.
They've known since very shortly after the murders that someone use the victim's ATM card. There are no bank records which can show the identity of an unauthorized person who used a card. The security videos can be helpful, but they're often blurry, and if you cover your face the ATM still works, so there may not be any face visible in the video. Even if there is, you then have to figure out who the face belongs to -- most people don't have their names printed on their foreheads.
Yeah, it was really fueled by some local copts themselves, IIRC. The "torture," which was not "Islamic" as people tried to interpret, might have been to force out the ATM codes.
Naturally we haven't heard the whole story.
"most people don't have their names printed on their foreheads"
NOOOOOOO! Who told you that lie ..??
bump
I'm still curious to see if there was a connection with the family member that was doing translations for the Stewart case.
Tenant could have been any religion as far as we know now. If Muslim, and he did it, it may have nothing to do with religion, or if it did it could be in the sectarian Northern Ireland type of animosities rather than some grand jihadist, Islamist, whatever inspiration.
Could just be nuts.
"I'm still curious to see if there was a connection with the family member that was doing translations for the Stewart case."
Indeed, that was a curious connection.
Last article posted about this said they finally had a license plate number from the cameras.
Pinging TC.......
Do you hear the dogs barking? -- Conan Doyle
Certainly from what I remember reading more than one perpetrator almost certainly was involved.
Thanks
Eyewitness News reporter Anthony Johnson joins us live from Jersey City with the latest.
Images From The Ongoing Story
According to two sources very close to the investigation, the FBI has picked up a suspect they believe my have some ties to the murders of a Coptic Christian family in Jersey City.
Video: Latest from The Investigators on Theories in the Murders
The man appears to be a former tenant of the family's home. According to out source the possible suspect was picked up this morning on Charles Street and is now being interrogated by the FBI, and he is giving them valuable information on the crime. But he claims he is not the killer.
The family was murdered on January 14th in their home on Oakland Avenue. Hossam Armonious, his wife Amal Garrus and their two daughters - fifteen-year-old Sylvia and 8-year-old Monica, had been bound and gagged, and their throats had been cut.
The crime sent shock waves through the community and many thought it may have been religious retaliation because the family was outspoken about their Christian views and may have made enemies in the Islamic community.
But now the motive appears to be robbery. That point came to light when Eyewitness News investigative reporter Sarah Wallace learned that a suspect had used Hossam Armonious' ATM card on several occasions after the murder.
Police are currently looking for another accomplice in this case, and they are executing more search warrants. One police official close to this investigation called this a very big break in this crime.
From #31 link:
"...The man appears to be a former tenant of the family's home. According to out source the possible suspect was picked up this morning on Charles Street and is now being interrogated by the FBI, and he is giving them valuable information on the crime. But he claims he is not the killer..."
What's Charles Street like? Seedy? Early report, but not detained at home or work apparently.
Robery was probably mentioned in this case because the ATM card has been used ever since 2 days AFTER the murder.
They only recently got a license plate in the last ATM use.
words of advice.....don't watch Inside Edition for news. It's an entertainment show.
Fart towards Mecca Alert.
I think that's what Lee Harvey Oswald said, too, and we all know he was guilty, don't we?
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