Posted on 11/16/2006 6:42:56 AM PST by elc
Airport Arrest Turns Up Nuclear Info Nov 16 9:36 AM US/Eastern
A man was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after officials say they found him carrying more than $78,000 in cash and a laptop computer containing information about nuclear materials and cyanide. Sisayehiticha Dinssa, an unemployed U.S. citizen, was arrested Tuesday after a dog caught the scent of narcotics on cash he was carrying, according to an affidavit filed in court.
When agents asked him if he had any cash to declare, he said he had $18,000, authorities said. But when agents checked his luggage, they found an additional $59,000. When they scrolled through his laptop, they said they found the mysterious files.
At a court hearing Wednesday, Dinssa was ordered held in custody until at least until Monday at the request of prosecutors.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Leonid Feller argued Dinssa was a potential risk to the community and federal agents want to get a warrant to search his computer more thoroughly, The Detroit News reported Thursday. U.S. Magistrate Donald Scheer approved Feller's request to detain him.
Dinssa, who is from Dallas, arrived in Detroit from Nigeria by way of Amsterdam and was headed for Phoenix, Feller said. He is charged with concealing more than $10,000 in his luggage, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, the Detroit Free Press reported.
A message seeking comment was left Thursday with his lawyer, Leroy Soles.
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Are you suggesting that this was an unreasonable search?
Islamic Ethiopian by the name.
He was coming into the country.
.. a dog caught the scent of narcotics on cash he was carrying,
... he said he had $18,000, authorities said. But when agents checked his luggage, they found an additional $59,000.
Dinssa, who is from Dallas, arrived in Detroit from Nigeria
yep, nothing to see here, move along, move along
ethiopian, not nigerian.
It's none of the Government's business how much money I carry, in or out or around the country..............
Although it's completely illegal, authorities routinely arrest anyone with over 10,000 in cash and take the money.
Welcome to the fascist states of America!
Drug dealers don't take checks... I'm willing to bet sometime in your life you carried cash that had the scent of drugs.
18.4 rounds down to 18, and 59.4 rounds down to 59, but 18.4 and 59.4 = 77.8, which rounds up to 78.
Other than it's apparently illegal to carry U.S. currency
The article is horribly written, pretty much par for the course since all J school teaches you is to be a water carrier for the democraps. But it's legal to carry as much currency as you want, but when you're crossing the border, you have to declare it. Not declaring it was the crime.
Un-Consti-freakin'-tutional, IMHO
Standard Constitutional protections don't apply when you're crossing the border. That's a whole 'nother world.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
" What's an unemployed Nigerian (one suspects Islamic, but maybe not) doing in Detroit "
Isn't Nigeria the place where Joe Wilson didn't buy any yellow-cake to send to Saddam?? OR was he going to give it to Valerie as a "coming out" present??
I'm so confused.....
Sisayehiticha Dinssa, an unemployed U.S. citizen, was arrested Tuesday after a dog caught the scent of narcotics on cash he was carrying, according to an affidavit filed in court.
Tells me that the cash more than likely came from a drug deal and that there was probable cause to check the rest. The nuke info was just icing on the cake.
Yes, in that the government had no other reason to search him except for the amount of cash (if it hadn't been for that doggie sniff)........
You could be right. I perhaps got confused by this: Dinssa, who is from Dallas, arrived in Detroit from Nigeria....
And how are we certain of the scent of narcotics? Maybe the dude had Snausages in his bag.
Let's see now. He starts in Amsterdam, a well known hotbed for drugs, to Nigeria, a well known hotbed of corruption, to Detroit, where sniffer dogs detect drug residue in a suitcase stuffed with cash. It doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes to deduce what this guy was up to.
I bet if he had made it home to Dallas the next step would have been to launder the money and he would have been home free.
He was obviously THE NIGERIAN who has been sending out all those e-mails...........
The thousand dollar suitcase?
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