Police Arrest Four Men Near Detroit Water Plant

Click on Detroit ^ | 3/25/03

[Heartlander2]

DETROIT-- Detroit police reportedly arrested and then released four men near the Detroit Water and Sewerage Plant Tuesday morning.

The men were arrested around 3 a.m. near a plant intake facility near Dearborn and West Jefferson Avenue along the Detroit River in southwest Detroit, Local 4 reported. Several manhole covers in the area were reportedly removed and the men were found with a laptop computer and binoculars.

Federal authorities and Detroit police questioned the men. The suspects were released, but authorities kept their computer to investigate, according to the station's reports.

City of Detroit security and officers from the Detroit Police Department's 4th Precinct reportedly patrol the area. The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department supplies water to the city of Detroit and several suburbs in the metro area, the station reported.

[Pearls Before Swine]

The facts as related sound suspicious enough that I'm wondering why on earth they were released.

[TADSLOS]

Federal authorities and Detroit police questioned the men. The suspects were released, but authorities kept their computer to investigate, according to the station's reports.

Couldn't they have at least held these guys long enough to search the contents of their laptop and vehicle, not to mention searching the area for sabotage?

[fooman]

IDIOTS for releasing these people. Were they ME or ameri-muslim? It is Detriot after all.

[princess leah]

And what nationality were they?

[BluH2o]

I'm wondering why on earth they were released.

That's easy ... they were wearing turbins.

[conservativeinbflo.]

i agree with heartlander-- manhole covers removed in the dead of night, by men with laptops? what more do we need to find these men suspicious, short of photographs of them having a beer with Osama bin Laden. I worry that the politically correct climate of this country is what makes authorities hesitant to detain men like this, for fear of "racial profiling" accusations.

[End Times Sentinel]

Hmmm... does this need a Religion of Peace alert?

 

 

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[ladtx]

Would be nice to know nationality also.

[goodseedhomeschool]

So...WHY WERE THEY RELEASED???
This sounds very suspicious to me. I mean, who sits around a manhole with a laptop computer and binoculars at 3 am in the morning anyway? And, near a water plant to boot. Hummmm.

[Robe]

The men were arrested around 3 a.m. near a plant intake facility near Dearborn and West Jefferson Avenue along the Detroit River in southwest Detroit, Local 4 reported. Several manhole covers in the area were reportedly removed and the men were found with a laptop computer and binoculars.

Federal authorities and Detroit police questioned the men. The suspects were released, but authorities kept their computer to investigate

What the $%^#...? The police can hold dog gone near anybody for 24 hrs
I would think attempted theft of manhole covers would be a good place to start !!!

[Portnoy]

Nice...real nice..I live in the Detroit Area...

Time to buy bottled water....

[BluH2o]

That's easy ... they were wearing turbins.

Ahhh ... make that turban.

[Spruce]

They let them go?

[cardinal4]

At a sewage facility at 0300. With Binoculars. With a laptop.
They were released. Im pulling my hair out.

[netmilsmom]

Geez, we must have been posting this at the same time!!
How close is this plant to Dearborn?
Bottled water is right!!
Can one get any bad stuff from the water after it's been through a filter for coffee?

[Mamzelle]

Following them home has proven to be useful.

In the early days of terrorism, it was the water supply that interested and frightened me most, rather than antrhax and smallpox. You can make a lot of poison easily on a petri dish and terrify a lot of people (though not kill many) if you can just get that poison into a significant water source. Say, on Sunday night in prep for Monday morning coffee.

[piasa]

fyi

[kkindt]

Laptops in sewers? What good would that be? DId they have a diagram or map on these? If so why not print it out and why take your laptop to the sewers??? These facts do not add up to terrorists but something probably regarding pornography and the use of sewers as hiding/rendevous places of some kind.

[Dialup Llama]

Well at least this in an improvement. They were arrested and the cops KEPT the laptop. There was a time when suspicious people doing surveillance on buildings and infrastrucure would be ignored with an explanation that they were tourists.