Posted on 08/11/2006 11:08:06 AM PDT by george76
Around 1:00am August 11th three men purchased cell phones from the Wal-Mart store on M-81 near the corner of M-24 in Caro.
Wal-Mart places a limit on the number of cell phones that can be purchased at once, that number is three.
The three men allegedly bought 80 by purchasing them three at time so that an alert wouldn't be triggered by the cash register.
They also paid cash.
An alert clerk grew suspicious and called Tuscola County central dispatch. The Caro Police Department sent a unit and stopped the rented van on M-81 just east of Caro. The suspects were headed towards Bad Axe on M-81 where there is another Super Wal-Mart.
The three men were described as being of Pakistani descent but live in Texas.
Police say the three, ages 19, 22, and 23 appear to be naturalized citizens.
One man was driving while the other two were in the back opening the phone packages with box cutters throwing the phones in one box, batteries in another and the packaging and phone charger in another container.
The suspects had 1000 other cell phones in the van. There was also a bag of receipts showing that someone was in Wisconsin the day before.
The phones were Nokia Tracfones selling for $20 at Wal-Mart. For your twenty dollars you receive a phone charger and 40 minutes of airtime.
The phones do not have to be registered with a name.
Also discovered was a laptop with store addresses and store logos.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnem.com ...
You are correct. Way too many coincidences. It is possible that it is what they claim of course, but their is no doubt in my mind that these guys will be shadowed for weeks, minimum.
What is your price for a 1000 ?
Is there a discount for cash ?
Help me out here. I know a lady that has a tracphone and she buys more minutes for the phone instead of 200 phones at the time. What is the advantage of buying that many phones if you could simply buy more minutes? Or maybe I'm not talking about the same kind of phone.
"I think the most likely reason was to have a bunch of one use phones to throw off wire tapping. After being used once, they would be either thrown away or sold at places like flea markets. You take the battery off so that you don't accidentally turn it on until right before you're ready to use it."
Bingo. 3 guys, even hoping to set up detonators, don't need 1000 phones.
3 guys, hoping to coordinate terror planning without being picked up, do need a single-use communication system to prevent detection; and to do that they need lots of phones.
Others on this thread will do well to read about "dead drops" in espionage jargon.
Be aware and stay safe Peach.
Too many suspicious things are going on right now.
You say that sarcastically. There is some truth in what they said. I've seen numerous items on E-Bay that have sold for more(sometimes substantially, so) than what would pay for them retail. There are a lot lazy/stupid people out there, and a lot of people who take advantage of them.
Not saying these guys aren't suspicious, just that there is a kernal of truth in their cover story.
Watch soon it will be too late and since we didn't round up the Muslim terrorist and send them back when we had the chance they will inevitably sucker some leftist idiot white kids into being jihadists too or hook up with the ELF and ALF wackos. Birds of a feather and all that.
Having airplane and airport information, airport security stuff in the laptop computer...and buying hundreds of phones...
There needs to be alot of explaining going on.
Hopefully, the FBI will be doing some serious background checks.
Billhilly, keep your eyes open and stay safe. Lots of suspicious stuff going on, and the Muzzies are really upset over this Israel/Hezzbolla war.
Checked their website. Didn't see any $20 IED triggers Nokia Tracfones.
You can buy Tracfone Minutes for a lot less than a new phone.
oh damn....
I sure hope that the CIA/FBI et all know what the hell all this is about......
once again- Wal-Mart is doing more to protect America than the NYSlimes will EVER DO! Yet the libs and the media love to bach Wal-Mart....
amazing....
what do you mean? explain.
No, you don't. You remove the battery to render the cell phone invisible until such time as its needed.
Thousands of untraceable cell phones sounds an awful lot like an underground command and control net to me.
"can you fear me now?"
Buying more minutes for one phone makes the most logic for an innocent, honest person.
Needing 200 or 1000 phones with 40 minutes each and no chargers and...
There are likely some reasonable, legal, honest answers...but these actions also raise many questions on the criminal, terrorist side.
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