Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Update: Stadium Break-in: Suspicious Items Found, Men Give Conflicting Statements

Following up on this post...

Update...

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Police identified a late model silver Lexis Sports Utility Vehicle parked near the stadium at Art Rooney Avenue at North Shore Drive near the stadium and traced the ownership to Kumar PAUL, 51, of Woodbury, NY. Police searched the vehicle and found “unidentified suspicious items” inside the vehicle, along with a video camera and tripod. Two bomb dogs were used to check the SUV for explosives. Although none were found, the criminal complaint filed against PAUL and DARVASULA states that “two different dogs responded positively for hits of explosives” inside of PAUL's Lexus Sports Utility Vehicle.

When interviewed by police, both men stated that they were Carnegie Mellon (CMU) students and said that they had tickets for the Steelers game on Sunday. They told police that they “decided to check things out so they knew where to go for the game." Both men offered additional and conflicting accounts for their activities at the stadium Sunday morning.

Wonder what the "unidentified suspicious items" are? Break-in at a football stadium in the wee hours of the morning to "see where they're going to sit" (Yeah, right, real logical and believable! And these guys are supposed to be real smart, according to their GPAs? Sorry, no sale!)... two dogs, two positive sniffs for explosives... "suspicious items"... conflicting accounts...

No wonder they're held on a million bucks bail, each! That's serious bail! The police must have information they're not telling us about, in order to have a judge set such a high bail amount.

Suspicious. Lame excuses for what they were doing. Reminds me of the lame excuses for stuff the morons give the police on the TV show "Cops".