User:Striver/2006 mobile phone arrests

In 2006, several people have been arrested on suspicions of terrorism due to having large amounts of cell phones.

First case
The first case of a mobile phone arrests was on early august 2006. 24-year-old Hashem Sayed was stoped for a routine traffic stop, but was arrested when the officers saw that he had roughly 150 to 200 cell phones from multiple retailers. Sayed said he was buying them to ship to California to sell for a profit. But Sheriff Larry Mincks of Washington County say: "They are digital for detonating car bombs and they have a particular digital frequency and that's what they're using them for,"

Second case
On Aug. 11, 2006, Three men from Dallas arrested today on charfeges of helping terrorism after they purchased 80 prepaid mobile phones from a Wal-Mart store. The three Palestinian-American men had about 1,000 cell phones in their van were jailed on terrorism-related charges Caro, Mich. Tuscola County. The men were from Texas. The FBI was it was assisting Michigan authorities in the investigation. They belvied the mer were targeting the 5-mile-long Mackinac Bridge. The next day, the FBI said that they did not had any direct connection to known terrorist groups. The men told police they were buying the phones, which cost about $20 and come with a charger, taking them out of their packaging and selling them for about $38 without the charger. The men were Adham Abdelhamid Othman, Louai Abdelhamied Othman, and Maruan Awad Muhareb. Bond was set at $750,000 per suspect, and they remain in jail, essentially for violating Wal-Mart store policy. Assistant US Attorney Janet Parker is planning to help the Caro police bringing charges of trafficking in counterfeit goods and money laundering