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| Seattle-Area Man Arrested in Mailing 'Potential Destructive' Packages to D.C. Installations | ||
| 2018-03-28 | ||
| [PJ] WASHINGTON -- The FBI has taken a Seattle-area man into custody in connection with five packages containing possibly "destructive devices" that were sent to sensitive military and intelligence installations in and near D.C. Thanh Cong Phan, 43, of Everett, Wash., was arrested at his home Monday and was scheduled to make his first court appearance this afternoon. Packages were received Monday at Fort Belvoir, Va., Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C., Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) in Dahlgren, Va., and the Central Intelligence Agency at Langley, Va. The packages are being analyzed at the FBI lab in Quantico, Va.; initial investigation "determined that the packages contained potential destructive devices and appeared to be sent by the same individual from the Seattle, Washington, area." Officials said there was no apparent link to terrorism. "The joint investigation with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service continues at this time. It is possible that further packages were mailed to additional mail processing facilities in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The FBI takes all suspicious packages seriously and has been coordinating with our local, state, and federal partners on established protocols of how to handle suspicious packages," the FBI's Washington field office said. "The FBI continues to advise the public to remain vigilant and not touch, move, or handle any suspicious or unknown packages."
Roughly a dozen packages were sent Monday to sites including Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling and Fort Lesley J. McNair in the district; at Fort Belvoir, in Virginia; the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, in Dahlgren, Virginia; and the CIA. No injuries were reported, and the FBI said each package was collected for further analysis. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told news hounds on Tuesday that that all of the packages sent to Defense Department facilities are under the control of the federal authorities.
Please don't kill me! in 2011 near Woodland, Washington, the Daily Democrat reported. He was apprehended after stealing a 2000 Isuzu Rodeo from a gas station in Redding in May, 2011. Police there put out a 'lookout' alert for the car, and he was arrested at 7.30am on the 23rd after a police chase. Phan was charged with unlawfully taking a vehicle and felony evading. At one point Phan also called into the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Highway Patrol to tell officers he had killed his brother, who was contacted and confirmed to still be alive. | ||
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 Thanh Cong Phan, 43, of Everett, Wash. Guess he put a return address on the packages for them to catch him so quickly. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-03-28 00:52 |