CAIR will be happy to know that this suspected bank robber was caught not because he was Iranian, but because authorities thought he was Mexican and looked nervous at a border crossing. He turned out to be Iranian national, which raises questions about what he was using the money for -- if authorities are still allowed to pursue such matters. In any case, even if Farhbaksh was just using the money for a new convertible and a love nest in San Ysidro, this case raises yet more concerns about our porous southern border. Richard Miniter points out in his latest book that jihadists have more often entered the U.S. from Canada than from Mexico, but that doesn't mean that a Mexican crossing couldn't be successful -- if the jihadist manages to avoid sweating profusely and raising suspicions with a false ID. Unfortunately, these hurdles are overcome easily enough. "Authorities arrest suspected 'FedEx bandit,'" from the San Diego Union Tribune, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
SAN DIEGO – The robber known as the "FedEx bandit" has been arrested, ending a two-year spree that included more than 40 bank robberies, authorities said Tuesday.The 40-year-old man was arrested Monday while trying to cross the Mexican border at San Ysidro with a counterfeit ID card, authorities said.
They initially identified him as Ernest Lozano, but it turned out that was the assumed name of a dead U.S. resident. He was then identified as Farzad Naroii, but an investigation then determined his real name was Farhad Farhbaksh, said Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Farhbaksh is an Iranian national who first entered the United States on a student visa in 1978, authorities said.
The bank robbery spree began in September 2003 and included robberies in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties, with more than 30 of the crimes occurring in San Diego County, said San Diego police Lt. Mike Angus.
"He was dubbed the 'FedEx bandit' because in several of the robberies he walked in there with an envelope, a FedEx envelope, that he used as a prop and to carry the money out at times," Angus said.
The FedEx robber would show bank tellers a gun in his waistband or jacket pocket, and sometimes threatened to shoot them or said he had a bomb.
Angus said the FedEx bandit was responsible for one of the longest bank robbery sprees in the region in recent years, and investigators had few clues until he slipped up in June....
On Monday afternoon, Farhbaksh was trying to enter the United States through the pedestrian crossing at San Ysidro. He caught the attention of officers because he was sweating profusely and looked nervous, said Bruce Ward, acting port director with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Immigration and customs enforcement agents pulled him aside when he presented a phony ID card. They checked his fingerprints and discovered there were warrants out for his arrest, authorities said.
"It was a very good catch," Ward said. "Mr. (Farhbaksh) could have very well just walked into the United States if not for these alert officers."
FBI Special Agent Darrell Foxworth said Farhbaksh confessed to 43 bank robberies in San Diego, Los Angeles and Orange counties during a five-hour interview with federal and local investigators.
He told investigators he was in the country to avoid the military draft in Iran.
Foxworth said he wouldn't release how much money was stolen in the string of robberies or reveal what Farhbaksh said he was using the money for.
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He told investigators he was in the country to avoid the military draft in Iran.
YEA RIGHT??
why not just sty in Europe much closer????
September 26, 2005
Maybe we should just give up on La. After all this is the 2nd time it has flooded in 3 wks?? Maybe it is time to sell it back to the French??? We now see La. Is just another quagmiar time to get out?? Not worth fighting for?? What a bunch of whiners??
So if cindy is right and this Great Country the USA is not worth dieing for then all the Police and Fire Fighters will be looking for new jobs just like a 3rd of the New Orleans police?? What will this do to your home owners insurance??
Seams over the week-end hilary Clinton says she wants to keep our Fighting Forces in Iraq??
Pro-American Protest in Asia over the Week-end??
Woman in Hospital in Indonesia with bird flue? Bird flue also found in Europe and Russia in Dead Birds??
Small window to stop the flue says the CDC??
The French hold 9 islamic terrorist??
Iran threatens England, Germany, French, what will they do give in or run away wait a min. no where to run??
Sistania in Iraq says he likes the New Iraqi Constution??
Seams Shri Lanka a General says some of the Tusmani money was misspent?? SAY IT AINT SO!!
18 found guilty of Islamic terrorism in Spain, case predates 3/11??
Again La. Is a Quigmiar we must pull out sell it to the French CHEEP!!!
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Monday, Sept. 26, 2005
Does anyone remember the anti-war protest in Bomont TX?? I also remember hearing somewhere about the mulsums moving to that area??
Musharf says the money for ubl[YELLOW COWARD WHO RUNS AWAY] sounds good to him??
Saudi cuts in line in Calf for a liver transplant??
2 American rockets into space!!
More Islamic terrorist dead today!!
Helo crash in HW kills 3??
Helo crash in WI kills 3??
Water main break in Bostan??
Hillary Clinton says she is against the 9/11 memorial as it stands now??
#2 to the fat boy killed in Iraq seams he was the money man!!!
Jamacia man shoots @ the crowd @ a soccor game screams I was paid to do this?? Shoots 5 people before a Security Guard kills him!!
Seams the Polish voted in a Pro American Government which will be better for the Polish People!!!
September 27, 2005
9 dead in a roll over in Utah??
Alanta woman attacks cop with Chicken wings and a coke??
New test for bird flue in just 4 hours??
China is claming some of the Japanese Islands are Chinese,BUT says that china is no threat to Japan??
Saudi gets a liver transplant, BUT seams the Saudi cut in line?? The doctors involded were dismissed??
Rita has once again has shown why we must sell La. Back to the French??
What was it Nagan was saying you’al come back I want to hear some Jazz??
All they can complain about is look at all the traffic jam in TX? Well guess they have never been to a big city when 2 million people are trying to move at the same time?? If those people ran out of water in their cars well whos fault is that they must be stuck on stupid!!!
REMEMBER
It is your life and you are response-able for it! REMEMBER It is not we the government but we the people!!
The Press is stuck on stupid all there ,there aint no air conditioning well how did we get along what just 60 yrs ago without it?? And how long ago was it that John Crapper invented the tollet??
Again the Press is stuck on stupid!! The press is part of the problem the press does not understand the Islamic terrorist have declared war on them as well as all non-mulsums!!! The press and there silly ways will be the frist they kill if the monsters win look at the Poor woman in Baruit who car blew up?? The Islamic terrorist want you dead or slaves press don’t be stuck on stupid do your jobs and warn the people do your homework and get off emotion and think!!
Police chief of New Orleans quits could the 3 FEMA trucks in his Front Yard found by the Nat Guard have some thing to do with that??
September 28, 2005
Hillary Clinton is rasing money? Not for the victims of the Hurricans but for herself wants more money before the cut off date??OH MY??
Seams polis are stuck on stupid and have no recall? If you listen to everyone Of President Bush’s speeches befor that storm he asked people in Katrinas patch to leave the area even his weekly address said to GET OUT OF THE PATH!!! Saw the Prepostion stuff for RITA in La. And guess what not moving but a victim look at the President and the Governer in La standing in frount of the hanger??
Guess Brown was right??
That Plane is now part of the Victim mode? That Plane aint flying The press the polis are so poor they can’t afford to pay att.??
They have very poor RE-CALL??
The difference in the 3 states has to do with with each States Leaders!!
I don’t need another Daddy, BUT I do need Good Leaders who are team players and want to win the war and other Challenges For our country!!
As for La being bing disfuntional I saw that with my own eyes Mayor didn’t close down bussniess on Sat. Night?? And what was it he said I don’t want to see them helos I want to hear some Jazz?? Then what about him screaming about 10,000 dead that is where we should start?Then we have Farakan says Nagan told him the levee was blown up??
OH RE-CALL??
Some one needs to Sue the ACLU for what they have done to the Boy Scouts!! Why the Boy Scouts because the Boy Scouts Learn to survive without Ele.? Learn how to dig a Latrine and learn how to prepare and how to camp after a storm!! So you see what the ACLU has taken from you??
Now to all the Whimps complaining about how hot it is think about our Fighting Forces who are in over 100 dregee heat with all that gear and monsters shooting at them SO STOP YOUR WHINING!!! Hell I even have a genorater just in case can pump water from the well or take it to the station to pump gas DON’T WAIT FOR SOMEONE TO COME AND SAVE YOU, YOU SHOULD BE SAVING OTHERS!!
With all the Pesss and their I am just reporting saw lost of press helos how much water did they bring in to the people on the HWY ?? OH YEA NONE??
HOW MANY PRESS PUT DOWN THEIR CRAMRAS TO HELP PEOPLE ?? I SAW 1 EVEN PENN SAVED A FEW PEOPLE BEFORE HE HAD TO BE SAVED??
NO I AM SICK OF THOSE WHO THINK THEY ARE ALL THAT!!
I TELL YOU YOU AINT!!
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GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURAGE TO STAY THE COURSE TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM OPEN THE WORLDS EYES TO THEIR THREAT GIVE THE WORLD COURAGE TO STAND UP AND FIGHT LET NOT THE WORLD BE DECEIVED BY THEM AMEN