It's the BISHOP!!!
Posted on 04/25/2007 10:06:36 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
Summary U.S. law enforcement agencies in Dubuque, Iowa, on April 25 arrested a man they believe to be "The Bishop," a suspect who has sent improvised explosive devices to financial services companies through the mail. Authorities describe the suspect as a 42-year-old former postal worker.
(Excerpt) Read more at stratfor.com ...
April 25: The Bishop, Stratfor reported, appeared on their radar screen in 2005 when he was sending anonymous, threatening letters to various financial services companies. The letters demanded that the targeted companies -- financial firms based in the U.S. Midwest -- attempting to manipulate targeted stocks to a predetermined price, frequently $6.66. The Bishop was reported to have sent IEDs through the mail to these companies. The IEDs were complete but intentionally not fully assembled.
A photograph included in an Oct. 25, 2005, threat letter showed the window of the vehicle from which the photograph was taken. The vehicle- a four-door Chevrolet Lumina. Authorities said Tomkins drove a red 1993 Chevrolet Lumina.
Photo of car interior was said to match car driven by Tomkins.
A possibility that he could detonate an IED while being arrested was a major safety concern.
Authorities in Dubuque evacuated part of an apartment complex when a bomb-sniffing dog stopped at a storage locker connected to suspect.
Storage Locker Location: approximately a mile from suspect's residence on the west side of town.
Tomkins - machinist, married and has three children. This does not fit the original criminal profile compiled by the FBI, said Stratfor.
The complaint, filed by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in U.S. District Court in Northern Illinois, details the evidence allegedly tying Tomkins to the crimes, such as his stock transactions in the companies
Credit card and ATM receipts linking him to locations where letters were mailed. Handwriting comparisons, credit card receipts showed the bought materials at a hardware store similar to the components of constructing the IEDs, Stratfor reported today.
Ongoing.
It's the BISHOP!!!
I don’t know. Judging from my experience at my local post office yesterday, I’d say that most postal workers are too dumb, lazy and incompetent to make a bomb.
I don’t understand why postal “patrons” are not the ones going “postal” and shooting the lazy, dumb, arrogant, worthless postal workers. At least the ones at my local branch.
I could have sent out for a pizza and taken a nap while waiting. Jeesh.
Of course, I’m sure that there are many, many fine US postal workers everywhere. S/O.
Does it ever?
Ping
That is just north of me, I will have to keep my ears open tonight.
I went to the post office on Monday to mail one letter. When I walked in there were 3 people on line. From past experience I knew that I would have to wait about 15 minutes to get a stamp. I decided to purchase my one stamp from the vending machine. After several attempts at depositing various coins which fell straight through to the coin return, I decided to slide a dollar bill in the machine instead. The machine refused that bill and the 2 others I tried after it. Dejectedly, I turned to get on line, only to see that it had grown from 3 people to 6 people. At that point I decided I would return the following day during lunch hour.
The next day I arrived to find 2 people already ahead of me. I waited behind 1 person on line while the other person was being helped at the counter. I immediately noticed the postal clerk peeling off a stack of $100 bills and counting out loud, “one-thousand...two-thousand...three thousand”. Obviously, he was in the process of preparing a money order. When he finally finished that transaction the person in front of me stepped up to the counter and asked for two money orders. The clerk started punching keys and printed out the money orders. When he handed them to the customer she said, “this is wrong, I asked for $175 not $75”. The clerk apologized and said he would have to cash the original one then print out a new money order for the correct amount.
I still don’t have my stamp! I was so frustrated at this point that I decided to take my chances on the vending machine again, rather than wait for the refund, replacement, re-printing gyrations to be completed. If that didn’t pan out I knew the Mrs. would have a stamp or two lying around. I’d steal one when I got home then run into town and drop it in the box.
I stepped up to the machine and slid a dollar bill in the slot. Lo and behold, it sucked it in. I punched in C-2 on the keypad, then quantity 1. Out popped my stamp. I tore it off and waited for my change. Nothing. I looked up at the display screen and it said “No Change Available”. GRRRR! I decided to splurge and buy another stamp so I punched in C-2 again, quantity 1. Out popped another stamp. I waited for my change. Nothing. This time the display said, “See Clerk For Change”. WHAT?! The only reason I’m standing here fighting with this piece of crap is so I don’t have to “see the clerk”! Needless to say, I left triumphant with my 2 stamps. Leaving behind my 20 odd cents change as a donation to the U.S. Postal Service.
Sounds like my ordeal today trying to UPS a MP3 player back to a vendor.
The MP3 player ( a Creative Zen Vision M) is either defective or has the most incomprehensible user interface I’ve ever used [and I built my own computer] and I can’t make heads or tails of it, I’m thinking of getting an iPod (and I hate Apple and Mac people, etc.).
I’m so angry I don’t even make sense or understand what I’m talking about.
You probably know the feeling.
Funny that your clerk was counting money out. My clerk was counting money from one clerk who was closing out his desk. She took FOREVER totally ignoring me and the 2 people behind me. By the time she finished, the line had grown to 10 people. The other clerk mysteriously disappeared after she served the customer in front of me. They just don’t give a damn.
It’s a miracle I didn’t start screaming. I figured if I did that, they’d flush my package.
There’s another dead one on the landing.
Sooner or later, a FReeper postal worker will be along to tell us that USPS employees are dedicated professionals who love their jobs.
I wish that FReeper would come visit post offices in Houston. I have yet to find anyone inside one who could be described as a “professional” anything, possibly excepting “loiterer.”
Every 7-11 and likewise-type store sells stamps at the counter.
Don’t you know that most postal workers are highly educated people, many have “degree’s” of some sort. They all started out working part time at the post office while getting their “higher education” but apon graduating, couldn’t find a job in their chosen field. A degree in aborigional dance, or some other equally useless course just doesn’t have employers lined up to offer them jobs. Or they couldn’t pass the bar exam after 3 tries.
They then discover the postal union, and turn into a leftist labor activists, and become comfortable constantly going on strike and holding old age pensioners and welfare recipients’ paychecks hostage for rediculously high wages. Being paid $20+ bucks an hour to sell stamps or sort and deliver mail, something a monkey can do is rediculous.
Actually I think a monkey could do a better job considering the amount of missorted mail that gets left in my mailbox.
I’m know my mail ends up in someone elses as well, especially when it’s something important, like as check. You can count on it NOT getting delivered as adressed.
Have your employer or customers deposit money directly in your bank instead, otherwise you will have to spend hours and days on the phone talking to postal employees who really don’t have a clue where your mail is.
Bet you just stood in a "jiffy line" ~ that's where one main feeder line leads to all of the windows, and as a window comes open, the next person in line gets that window to conduct his or her business with USPS.
You can just imagine the discomfort folks felt years ago before the "screen line" was moved off the counter and in back of the clerks. In those days people standing in line would see postal workers across the workroom floor sorting mail and doing a variety of other chores, yet windows remained unmanned.
Folks finally got smart and hid other operations from folks standing in line. The jiffy line made selection of the "next" customer fair.
BTW, the term "postal patron" was eradicated over 30 years ago ~
It's a post office box in Kentucky. They pick up that mail themselves then ship it as freight to an otherwise empty building in Arkansas where it piles up.
Someday that building will burn down and all that "lost" mail sent to the cellphone company will turn up and the MSM will be aghast.
You'll undoubtedly say "see there, incompetence".
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