Posted on 02/26/2008 1:05:04 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
MIAMI (AP) -- A man with multiple passports was arrested Monday after he bolted from security screeners at Miami International Airport, jumped from a second floor concourse and broke his arm and ribs, authorities said.
Transportation and Security Administration officials became suspicious of Faid Beydoun as he stood in a security line, waiting to board a Los Angeles-bound flight. When Beydoun's travel documents also raised concerns, agents asked him to step out of line for a secondary screening.
Beydoun, who was carrying multiple passports, then ran from security screeners, jumped 25 feet off the second floor concourse and broke his arm and ribs, The Miami Herald reported.
The man was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence, according to a statement. They did not identify him, but Miami-Dade County Corrections Department spokeswoman Janelle Hall said Beydoun was arrested for the same charges Monday, as well as loitering and prowling.
Telephone calls by The Associated Press to Miami-Dade Police, the FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were not returned Monday night.
Beydoun, 42, was being held in the hospital ward of the Miami-Dade jail at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Hall said. Beydoun did not have an attorney listed.
Two other men, also headed to Los Angeles, were taken off a later flight that was still on the tarmac. They told investigators they paid for Beydoun's plane ticket and that he was their Miami Beach party guide. No weapons or dangerous material were found with them.
AP-ES-02-26-08 0152EST
Thank you Jet Jaguar.
I’ll link to this on TM.
They told investigators they paid for Beydoun’s plane ticket and that he was their Miami Beach party guide.
Party guide? O-kay. Wonder what kind of party he was planning?
My pleasure Cindy.
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I wondered all day if the suspect was a butt sniffer.
How can he be charged with “resisting arrest” when he wasn’t being arrested?
Nothing to see here, folks. Just move along now...
I caught that too, but I am not sure I understand it.
Seems like a good candidate for a luxurious stay at Camp Xray, Guantanamo, Cuba. All expenses paid.
Do they have a photo of him? Was he wearing traditional Somali garb?
I think this might be like the Imams-—this was a trial run testing security.
Amish?
Common Dutch-Pennsylvanian family name. /
No, silly...4th generation Scotch-Irish from Appalachia.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Authorities concluded there is no evidence of a link to terrorism or suspicious terroristic activity... blah, blah, blah...
A lot of times, when police charge somebody that they want to hold they throw all sorts of charges at him, simply to make sure that something will stick and they won’t have to let him go immediately. If he was on the premises for other than legitimate purposes, they could probably have made a reach and charged him with loitering, prowling, etc.
You reckon hes Islamic ? Surely not .
I had him down as Liverpool-Irish .
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