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<< Two men arrested outside Pentagon
Fake drivers? licenses spur troopers to call in FBI
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Feb. 12 ? NBC News has learned that the FBI has arrested two men of Middle Eastern background who were driving Monday night outside the Pentagon in a tow truck. The FBI is now investigating the men to see if they have any terrorist connection.
LUCY CALDWELL, a spokeswoman for the Virginia State Police, told NBC News that state troopers pulled the men over Monday night at 10:05 pm as they were driving on Route 110 by the Pentagon. Commercial vehicles, including tow trucks, have been prohibited from using that road since November, Caldwell says. She adds that the men ignored a trooper who was trying to signal them to pull over their truck.
A second trooper down the highway was able to get them to stop. He searched the truck and found numerous false identification cards, Caldwell said, including a half dozen drivers? licenses from several states ?with different identities on them.? Once the trooper saw the fake IDs, he called in the FBI.
Virginia State Police have charged the men, whose names were not released, with traffic violations and possession of false identification. The FBI interviewed them at length Tuesday and, federal law enforcement sources say, still are trying to establish who these men are. The sources say they expect the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia to file federal charges Wednesday against the men in the U.S. District Courthouse in Alexandria, Va.
The men were not armed. Bomb-sniffing dogs searched the truck, but found no explosives or explosive residue, Caldwell said.
The arrest took place just two hours after the FBI announced its latest terrorist warning Monday night. >>
<< Two men arrested outside Pentagon
Fake drivers? licenses spur troopers to call in FBI
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Feb. 12 ? NBC News has learned that the FBI has arrested two men of Middle Eastern background who were driving Monday night outside the Pentagon in a tow truck. The FBI is now investigating the men to see if they have any terrorist connection.
LUCY CALDWELL, a spokeswoman for the Virginia State Police, told NBC News that state troopers pulled the men over Monday night at 10:05 pm as they were driving on Route 110 by the Pentagon. Commercial vehicles, including tow trucks, have been prohibited from using that road since November, Caldwell says. She adds that the men ignored a trooper who was trying to signal them to pull over their truck.
A second trooper down the highway was able to get them to stop. He searched the truck and found numerous false identification cards, Caldwell said, including a half dozen drivers? licenses from several states ?with different identities on them.? Once the trooper saw the fake IDs, he called in the FBI.
Virginia State Police have charged the men, whose names were not released, with traffic violations and possession of false identification. The FBI interviewed them at length Tuesday and, federal law enforcement sources say, still are trying to establish who these men are. The sources say they expect the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia to file federal charges Wednesday against the men in the U.S. District Courthouse in Alexandria, Va.
The men were not armed. Bomb-sniffing dogs searched the truck, but found no explosives or explosive residue, Caldwell said.
The arrest took place just two hours after the FBI announced its latest terrorist warning Monday night. >>
