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Were the police worried they would be accused of ‘profiling’?
Nothing to see here, folks.
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....I would be suspicious.
Muhammedphones
I have been to the Lebanon Walmart many times. I wonder if these are truck drivers that work in Springfield, MO? Highway 44 is a very busy interstate. You can easily see licsence plates from all over the country just in a 25 mile stretch it takes me to drive to Lebanon or Springfield. Many trucking companies here with foreign hired drivers. Head turbans at truck stops is not rare.
From KY3:
In the early morning hours on Saturday—around 3:50—two men buying a large number of cellphones at the Walmart in Lebanon set off some concern.
“Somebody went in and bought 60 cellphones from Walmart that’s not normal for this area,” explained Laclede County sheriff Wayne Merritt.
After talking with the men, officers didn’t have a legal reason to detain them so the men were allowed to leave, according to a Lebanon Police Department incident report.
Local authorities, though, did notify the FBI.
Sheriff Merritt said calling law enforcers was the right move.
“I’m not going to say just because they’re different religion or because they’re Muslim, but these people were they were foreign speaking, then you need to take notice and you need to let us know about it because it doesn’t hurt to check on it. You’re not being racist or anything like that you’re just protecting yourself,” Merritt said.
After the San Bernardino shooting, several media outlets reported some neighbors noticed suspicious activity at the home of shooters Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik.
No reports were made, however, out of fear of being accused of racial profiling.
As for cellphones, law enforcement agencies report they are potential tools in the hands of terrorists.
The devices can be used to communicate and they’re difficult to trace if they’re prepaid phones; they can also be used as detonators for bombs.
The bottom line: report suspicious activity. “We’ve got to be vigilant,” warned Merritt.
Information can be reported anonymously to any law enforcement agency.
Copyright © 2015, KY3 News
Check the speed dial on those phones.
If 1-800-KABOOM is one of the contacts, there’s gonna be trouble.
The same thing is happening here in Indy. My friend works at a drugstore and Muzzies have been going around buying those phones in bulk.
She reported it and was visited by police.
Staying Private
The nature of the word "burner" suggests that such a device would be used for a short time and then discarded. For most people this isn’t necessary or worth the cost, but the especially privacy-conscious might like the idea.
A burner phone does not require a Google account, GPS tracking your location,
They use them to run phone scams
If a fellow knew the numbers of these phones he could have his computer call them randomly.
This would make anyone thinking of using them as detonators or whatever, very nervous.
If LEO’s and the FBI have any brains they will immediately put every IMEI on every phone purchased on a special watch list. At the very least this was a resupply run of burner phones. More likely it was an attack prep.
Also happened in Columbia. So that is 100 or so cell phones.
Multiple cell phone purchases at 3 Missouri Walmarts raise suspicions
Added more cities.
Ava
Macon
Lebanon
Columbia
Jackson
Cape Girardeau
Police questioned the man, who was from Michigan, and he told them that he is a businessman. Police found no reason to detain him.
My cell fone go BOOM!
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