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| 2nd Weapon Found in Robbery, Agent Says |
| 2003-09-03 |
| EFL/FU: The bomb strapped to a pizza deliveryman who told police he was forced to rob a bank contained an unusual kind of explosive not typically found in America, FBI agents said Wednesday. FBI spokesman Bill Crowley confirmed a statement Wednesday by agent Kenneth McCabe that the explosive used in the device was of a kind he had only seen once, in Bogota, Colombia. Crowley also confirmed that a second weapon was found. The bomb that killed Brian Douglas Wells was secured with a metal collar and lock that FBI officials do not believe was commercially manufactured. Officials released photographs of the device Tuesday in the hope that someone may recognize it and call a telephone tip line. The second weapons was "unique," Crowley said, but he refused to describe it further. McCabe, the agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh office, had said in an interview with ABC’s "Good Morning America" that the second weapon was "a sort of a gun." WFT? Investigators are still trying to determine whether Wells, 46, was a willing participant in the bank robbery last Thursday. After police surrounded and handcuffed him, Wells said he had a bomb strapped to him and that someone he apparently did not say who had started a timer on the bomb and forced him to rob the bank. While waiting for a bomb squad to arrive, the bomb exploded. When I first saw this story, the little voices in my head told me that I had seen this somewhere before. They were right: CSI Miami - Season 1 - Episode 2 Losing Face A serial bomber appears to be targeting Miami’s Colombian community. A wealthy importer of Colombian goods is discovered wearing an explosive collar; both he and Caine’s mentor, a bomb technician, are killed in the attempt to disarm it. The explosive device tests positive for TATP, which means that it was home-made and highly sensitive. The device is technically complex, with dummy switches, alternate power source, and collapsing circuits, indicating that it was constructed by a professional. Somebody has been watching TV. Wonder if the FBI has made the connection? |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 In the TV show, was the importer actually in on the plot? No, he wasn't. It was the collar connection that I thought was similar. Police reports say that the bomb was simple, the collar was not. Authorities on Tuesday released a photograph of the bomb's locking device, which consisted of four key locks and a combination lock, and appeared to be homemade. "The locking mechanism was unique and it was sophisticated," FBI agent Bob Rudge said on Tuesday. Then there is this: McCabe said today on Good Morning America that Wells was also carrying a concealed weapon at the time of the robbery. He said it was "a kind of gun," and said that like the locking collar it was also "unique." Strange use of words - "a kind of a gun". Homemade? Wells said somebody put the collar on him, after that police backed off. Don't know if they got anything else out of him. Time will tell. |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-9-3 4:11:42 PM |
| #1 In the TV show, was the importer actually in on the plot? I find it kind of hard to believe that a guy would do this using a real bomb (er, unless he's a splodeydope, of course). If you're going to assert that someone else put that bomb on you, might as well use a fake bomb, and later claim you thought it was real. On the other hand, why didn't he say who'd put it there? I figured he had, and the cops were sitting on it. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2003-9-3 3:37:13 PM |