Posted on 12/11/2015 3:01:10 PM PST by Sequoyah101
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -
The FBI is aware of reports of [middle eastern] men [from Michigan] visiting Walmart stores in several cities in Missouri and purchasing or trying to purchase large quantities of cellular telephones. An FBI spokeswoman won't say exactly how much its agents are delving into the purchases. Some of the cities where the purchases and attempted purchases are reported by police and media are Macon, Columbia, Jefferson City, Lebanon, Ava, Jackson and Cape Girardeau.
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After an earlier version of this story was posted on Thursday afternoon, the Marshfield police chief called to say that a man who gave a Michigan address made a similar purchase of a 19 prepaid cell phones in his city in October. The chief said that man gave a false tax exempt waiver form to the store and bought the phones without sales taxes.
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News release from Ava Police Department:
“On 12-05-2015 at approximately 0623 in the morning, the Ava Police Department received a report of a Middle Eastern male subject who had purchased a large amount of cell phones from Wal-Mart and had left a cell phone in the restroom. Officers responded and secured the phone.
“While speaking with Wal-Mart employees the subject who left the phone returned to the store to get it. Officers spoke with the male subject who was of Middle Eastern decent and asked for identification which was provided. After speaking with the subject, officers did not have any legal reason to detain him, so they allowed him to leave.
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to make a barrel bomb ...
Maybe they are going shark fishing...
Whatever you do; do NOT place a mixture of acetylene and oxygen in a trash bag and...
Exactly
Unhuh. Not many sharks lurking in the Mississippi ...
5.56mm
But, if you use on-line purchasing, you have to give an address .. a place for them to send the stuff,
If you buy it in person .. you don’t have to give an address .. do you ..??
Sure.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue works for me.
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Like when they used to ask for a phone number.
Do they EVER check to hear the Dial-a-Prayer for the day?
Actually could just be bulk purchases for Muslim refugees from Syria. So they can get texts from Obolo.
Or maybe just another Obamaphone bulk purchase.
Could also be Christmas presents for their grandmothers but I think that is pretty unrealistic.
Believe what you want to belive
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