Driver arrested in crash during Secret Service pursuit in SoCal

AP ^ | June 29, 2002

[Cultural Jihad]

FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) - Secret Service agents pursued and arrested a driver who crashed into several other cars during the brief chase, police said.

As agents raided a home on Ash Street shortly before 5 p.m. Friday, the driver got into a car and fled, said Lt. Joe Klein. A message left at the Santa Ana Secret Service office was not immediately returned early Saturday.

[cmsgop]

Good Find!

[Dog]

The name of the driver was withheld. The reason he was under surveillance and targeted for arrest was not released, Klein said.

Hmmmmmmmmm!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the heads up!

Perhaps counterfeiting?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Ash Street Alert!

[Cultural Jihad]

Apparently the police in Fullerton released this report, presumably with the approval of the USSS.

[Dog]

Lookie here....

[DainBramage]

Published 2:25 a.m. PDT Saturday, June 29, 2002

A message left at the Santa Ana Secret Service office was not immediately returned early Saturday.

Lets see, the raid was at 5PM Friday and no call was returned before this was researched, written, and published at 2:25 AM Saturday morning.

As much as I distrust the Government,...sheesh, give me a break, they do not owe the press minute by minute responses to their every activity, especially after hours on Fridays.

[browardchad]

Could be another Jihadist threatening to bomb the White House -- the SS usually makes those house calls.

[B4Ranch]

The Secret service reminds me of the INS when the Brooklyn police tried to get some info on the five men they were holding. 'it's the weekend and our offices are closed'.

Well hey, I guess they are positive that the terrorists will not attack us on the weekend because our offices are closed.

I remember too many mortar attacks during the weekend when I was in Nam to feel safe on the weekend now that we are at war again.

[DainBramage]

No offense, but this ain't Nam, and the secret service raids people for counterfeiting and other crimes all the time. Most likely a snitch or a nut who threatened the president.

Everybody puts the secret service,ATF, and FBI in a sort of box, like everything they do is such big potatoes, when actually most of their time is spent on small time crap.

I have been on a bunch of calls with all three and its usually some idiot gone super idiot and they just might need some ems backup or the PD backs them up and asks us to stand by cause its some redrag/bluerag punk who thinks he's a Blood or a Crip.

[redheadtoo]

Please ping me if you post more on the subject. As a resident of Fullerton I am interested in what is going on in my community.

[Cultural Jihad]

I scanned the LA websites for news on this item earlier, but there's been nothing else.

[B4Ranch]

The performance of our law enforcement/intelligence agencies is almost as low as the performance of the media. The National Security Agency has an annual budget of $8+ BILLION, tie that in with the Secret Service and FBI budgets, then add our military intelligence and the CIA budgets, then add the state, county and city police force budgets. I would have presumed with that type of money being spent that we should have the worlds most effective intelligence/law enforcement system. They should be able to locate Osama bin Laden, the Smart kidnapper or any other person that they were looking for in less than one hour. That is one helluva lot of OUR money being used under the title of National and local security.

Perhaps if they had people working for them who actually had an education and enthusiasim they would be able to do it. I have no idea what kind of money the media spents every year but I'm quite positive that it isn't anywhere near the same totals.

Both of these systems are supposed to be working for our society and both of them do such a piss poor job that each deserves medals of disgrace.