Posted on 07/13/2005 11:25:19 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
Ping..
I heard he was reported to LE by truckers who heard this guy over the CB radio.
Good job guys!
Yeah, I heard that too on the radio reports for the last hour, this is the first print story I found on it.
Oh dear. Good work. Sounds like a not very smart guy.
Man in custody after telling truckers he was driving explosives to D.C.
July 13, 2005 — Authorities in this central Illinois town took a man into custody after he told truckers over a CB radio early Wednesday morning that he intended to drive a van full of explosives to Washington, D.C.
A Cedar Rapids, Iowa, man was driving a van eastbound on Interstate 80 when he used the terms "bomb," "explosive," "Washington, D.C." and "president," over a CB radio, Princeton police Chief Tom Root told the (LaSalle) NewsTribune.
Truck drivers alerted authorities around 3 a.m. after hearing the driver's comments, Root said.
"Those statements absolutely lead us to believe that he was a threat," he said.
The man was taken into custody at a service station just south of I-80 in Princeton, where he stopped for gasoline, police said.
Local authorities evacuated the station and sealed off the area after officers found "documents, maps and containers" inside the van, police said. They then called in the FBI, Secret Service and state bomb squad to investigate. Nearby fast food restaurants were evacuated as a precaution, Root said.
The 44-year-old man was being held at the Bureau County sheriff's department Wednesday morning, pending an investigation by the Secret Service, according to a police statement.
Princeton is about 100 miles southwest of Chicago.
ping
How dare we question his patriotism.
Princeton Illinois the Illinois Home of Monterrey Mushrooms.
Bureau county jail three rooms and a outhouse Ala Lincoln County New Mexico in the 1880's.
BTW this area of Illinois has been called the Arm pit of Illinois.
I used to recruit truckdrivers and had a hiring open house when I lived in IL. I am from the Quad Cities. I can tell you firsthand that Princeton is indeed an armpit.
With Ritchie Daley and all the dems running around, Chicago must be the bunghole of Illinois.
Sound like he might be a DU'er to me.
Michael Moore moonlighting as a truck driver?
No?
OK, Al Franken?
Mebbe Mike Dukakis?
==Anyone have a pic of this guy? I'm betting his knuckles drag on the ground when he walks.===
His knuckles don't drag........I've yet to see a Kennedy who does.....
Perhaps it is also a lame excuse to get Americans accustomed to being yanked out of their vehicles based on idle chatter. Remember when authorities thought the Washington, D.C. snipers were white guys in a delivery van? Hmmm?
~ Blue Jays ~
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