Posted on 03/07/2003 5:14:18 AM PST by mommadooo3
Big city?? I'm shocked to learn they have internet access in Carroll.
Nope...the "Batavia" bit comes from when I was in the Australian lobster importing bidniss..."Batavia" was a brand that one of my customers loved to say, so it became a nickname..!
I think the late, great disc jockey Robert W. Morgan (Los Angeles area) came from there...he always made a big deal out of it!
An investigation into a potential terrorist plot leads the FBI to Carroll County and Anthony Fernwalt. This all started with a phone call to news nine.
Anthony Fernwalt is no stranger to the law. Over the last twenty years, Fernwalt has been investigated for theft, drug charges, abduction, writing bad checks, and weapons charges.
The FBI office in Canton is in charge of the investigation against Anthony Fernwalt. The big concern is that Fernwalt may have been involved in a terrorist plot. A tip investigators picked up from a series of intercepted e-mails from a Muslim-turned-Christian calling himself "Tony Black." The FBI was notified by CNN that they were receiving e-mails stating that an individual in Ohio was bringing illegal aliens into this country from Canada and that an attack was planned.
Now federal investigators say that seems unlikely. After executing a search warrant at the Fernwalt residence in Kilgore, Ohio, investigators said that no sarin gas was found and during the course of the search there were indications that it never existed there.
One thing that investigators wanted to make clear to the public is that there is apparently no danger at the Fernwalt residence.
News 9 has obtained a sworn affidavit from federal court which alleges that Anthony Fernwalt was creating fake ID's for use by Indian and Pakistani Nationals being smuggled into the country illegally from Canada by Dr. Paramjit Singh. Dr. Singh is currently in jail awaiting trial on fraudulent prescription drug charges. That information came when Fernwalt made a startling confession to Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla. WTOV-9
The story from this morning's Wheeling newspaper follows:
Information from a local law enforcement agency led to the Tuesday arrest of a Carroll County man who may have ties to terrorism. According to Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla, information he provided to officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation concerning Anthony Fernwalt, 50, of Kilgore in Carroll County, helped the agency arrest the man.
Fernwalt has been charged with the federal offense of transferring, making or having false IDs, but information from the federal investigation outlines what could have been a more sinister plan that could include the smuggling of Pakistani and Indian residents through Canada into the United States and a planned terrorist attack, using chemicals such as gas.
According to Abdalla, while the FBI had begun to suspect Fernwalt as a suspect in a plot to use sarin gas for a terrorist attack, they were unable to obtain a search warrant for the Carroll County retreat where Fernwalt lived.
Abdalla said the break in the case cane when Fernwalt came to his office Feb. 27 and admitted to the sheriff he had the ability to manufacture false forms of identification with information obtained in Canada. He said Fernwalt confessed to obtaining Canadian birth certificates of dead people. Fernwalt said the birth certificates then were used to get Canadian driver's licenses in the names of dead people.
Fernwalt also gave sheriff's department officials an Ontario, Canada, driver's license, a Canadian birth certificate, medical card and hunting and fishing licenses, all issued in Waine Coxall's name. The driver's license included a photo of Fernwalt.
To further complicate the issue, Fernwalt claimed Dr. Paramjit Singh, who is currently jailed on a drug charge in Jefferson County, used those certificates to smuggle Pakistani and Indian nationals into the United States through Canada. However, Abdalla said he does not know if the accusations are true because the FBI is still conducting an investigation into the matter.
On Feb. 28, Abdalla notified the FBI that Fernwalt came to the office the day before, and Tuesday, the FBI executed a search warrant on the residence. Abdalla said no sarin gas or weapons were discovered by the FBI in the home or a nearby shrine created by Fernwalt, but he also said this leaves police to wonder whether he had the gas at one time and had since rid himself of it.
Fernwalt appeared in U.S. District Court in Akron on Wednesday morning. A magistrate judge ordered a psychiatric evaluation to determine if he is competent to stand trial.
A court affidavit from Sue Ellen Clark, special agent of the FBI, describes events that led agents to the Carroll County retreat this week: In January, an e-mailer, using the name Tony Black, began contacting media outlets. Black said he was a Muslim who converted to Christianity. He said he was brought to this country with the help of Waine Coxall, an alias used by Fernwalt. The e-mails were sent from truck stops and libraries in east St. Louis, Illinois and South Dakota. A final message was sent Jan. 22 from a convenience store across the street from a truck stop in Cambridge.
In the electronic messages, Black warned that Fernwalt had smuggled terrorists across the border from Canada through Fort Covington, N.Y., and Enosburg, Vt. Black said those terrorists were planning for a chemical attack using sarin gas. FBI agents were not able to determine Black's identity.
Fernwalt's past criminal record includes passing a bad check, tampering with a coin machine, possessing powder to make a crude bomb and having a weapon under disability. Carroll County sheriff's deputies also charged him Tuesday with falsification due to his possession of several forms of false identification with his picture and the name Waine Coxall. link
I checked around town and discovered (much to my relief to know that my memory remains intact) that this guy lived here for a while. And while living here he gots his-own-self in a bunch of minor, but numerous, brushes with the law.
The consensus of those-- Lawyers, Judges, Shrinks, Newspaper editors--all are unanimous: the guy's nuts.
It's always on the 15th.
Cool, huh?
Regards, R
Thanks for the update.
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