Posted on 09/08/2003 10:11:43 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:07:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The owner of a Virginia business that supplies bomb-sniffing dogs was fined $708,000 yesterday and sentenced to 6½ years in prison for marketing ill-trained dogs and handlers to government agencies after the September 11 attacks.
Russell Lee Ebersole, 43, of Hagerstown, Md., was charged in U.S. District Court in Alexandria in March after his dogs and their handlers failed to detect more than 100 pounds of explosives hidden during a field test.
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