Posted on 12/31/2009 11:23:02 AM PST by Beaten Valve
A woman called police on Monday and said a man was forcing his way into her apartment in the 5300 block of Elm Street.
When officers went inside, they found something that made them concerned enough to call the bomb squad.
They found an AT-4 shoulder-mounted rocket launcher. It can shoot a missile nearly 1,000 feet through buildings and tanks.
"It gives infantrymen the advantage with an ultra-light weapon that can stop vehicles, armored vehicles as well as main battle tanks and fortifications," said Oscar Saldivar of Top Brass Military and Tactical on the North Freeway.
That type of rocket launcher has been used in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The renter of the apartment didn't want to talk to KPRC Local 2.
"This is my house," the woman said. " Get away from here. I don't want to talk to nobody."
The woman did tell police that the rocket launcher belonged to Nabilaye I. Yansane, someone whom she allowed to store items at her apartment.
Police records show that she didn't want Yansane at her apartment, so she called them.
According to court documents, officers also found Jihadist writings that allegedly belonged to Yansane. The woman didn't want to talk to KPRC Local 2 about that, either.
"I don't know," she said. "You'll have to ask the police."
Yansane was charged with criminal trespassing and pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to three days in jail, which he has already served. No charges related to the rocket launcher or writings were filed.
"Other people could have had access to the apartment, so maybe if a rocket launcher was located there, as is stated in the offense report, maybe it belonged to somebody else," attorney Garl Polland said.
Prosecutors said there are no state charges for having the unarmed launcher or possessing Jihadist writings, unless they contain some type of threat.
The former director of Houston's FBI office said rocket launchers can be dangerous if they're in the wrong hands.
"I don't know any other use for those weapons except in combat," Don Clark said. "I've had them in combat, used them in combat. That's what they are used for."
Houston police said they did a thorough investigation and did not find any ties to terrorists or a terrorist network.
You know that if this was an ordinary Christian white male, he’d have been thrown under the jail taco pronto.
Houston's a sanctuary city.
Yansanity defense
Under federal law the AT-4 shoulder-mounted rocket launcher is not a controlled item. It doesn’t even come close to fitting the definition of a firearm under 18USC CH44 921, or as either a firearm or destructive device under 26USC CH53 5845.
It’s findings like this that give credence that the reputed the “toy rocket” launches (which have never been fully investigated) at the airport may indeed be something else.
WHERE did he get his “plastic tube”. He was arrested for trespassing to get his plastic tube.
Maybe he finally found a rocket to fire with his plastic tube.
If this had been a white militant guy owning this launcher,...
he would have been in jail and the key thrown away.
Nabilaye I. Yansane?
Maybe I’m Insane?.................
Yep.
I used to have a spent LAW tube.
Bought it at a gun show for twelve bucks.
About as dangerous as a wiffle ball bat.
Gov. Perry should send the National Guard into Houston and have them start searching Muslim houses and mosques. I’ll bet we would be stuned!
Absolutely. It would be breaking news on the MSM.
White christian has rocket launcher. the HORROR...the HORROR.
but an Islamofascist with Launcher...oh well.
Houston Rockets.
Makes sense.
According to court documents, officers also found Jihadist writings that allegedly belonged to Yansane. The woman didn’t want to talk to KPRC Local 2 about that, either.
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Question. Just how did this guy smuggle a rocket launcher through airport security? Must have some awful big shorts.
Did the dealer throw in the jihadist literature?
Eureka!
I was wondering what I did with that damned thing....now to just find where I put Fat Boy XVIII
/s
So, being "unarmed" is is probly just a spent tube. In other words it is a fancy hunk of pipe?
Because an actual live launcher would have BATFE(ces) on it like flies on "honey."
It looks like a dyslectic version of "Now I'll be insane."
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