FBI get their man...DOH!

zarathustrazarathustra
Posted:
in General Discussion edited January 2014
When a 72 year old Brit on holiday in South Africa gets arrested as FBI's second most wanted man the FBI fail to notice for three weeks that its not him. (Despite his protests)



I have a camera that I can send, a friend has an old fingerprinting kit...anyone help the FBI out with some DNA profiling equipment?



BTW. This was the second time the man was arrested, the first time the SA police had to let him go 'cos the FBI never started to deal with him.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 10
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    Huh?
  • Reply 2 of 10
    mrbilldatamrbilldata Posts: 489member
    Most criminal investigations are solved the way most science is advanced....



    By accident.



    But they will waste as much time and money as you give them.



    Now how was it they tracked down and caught the DC sniper. Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose didn't seem to have a clue.

  • Reply 3 of 10
    kraig911kraig911 Posts: 912member
    looking back I bet it appeared that way, but still you gotta give these guys a break, law enforcement is hard work, think about it everyone is a variable, and going to far to do your job is a real thin wavy grey line. I'm sure the guy was curious and knew something was up but also I bet he had no clue truly who they were.
  • Reply 4 of 10
    zarathustrazarathustra Posts: 264member
    [quote] Huh? <hr></blockquote>



    <a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=382077"; target="_blank">The Independent</a>
  • Reply 5 of 10
    bostonmhbostonmh Posts: 97member
    FBI their image has (continues) gone down.
  • Reply 6 of 10
    hassan i sabbahhassan i sabbah Posts: 3,987member
    Poor man. He's 75 years old. He was held in a South African jail cell for 10 days before the FBI even came into the prison to see for themselves if they'd got the right man.



    Apparently before he left the South African president phoned him up to apologise and to say it was nothing to do with South Africa and they were following Interpol protocol, and the poor bastard thought it was the president of the Bristol Rotary Club at first.



    I really feel for him, actually. He looks like a really sweet guy.



    [ 02-28-2003: Message edited by: Hassan i Sabbah ]</p>
  • Reply 7 of 10
    gardenofearthlydelightsgardenofearthlydelights Posts: 963member
    [quote]Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah:

    <strong>

    I really feel for him, actually. He looks like a really sweet guy.



    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Well, he was, until this incident left him a bitter, desolate, dejected old man.
  • Reply 8 of 10
    alex londonalex london Posts: 613member
    The crazy unforgivable clincher is that they were still trying to extradite him when they had the real guy under arrest in the States. WTF? <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" />
  • Reply 9 of 10
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    Surely this is the first time anyone's identity has ever been mistake!
  • Reply 10 of 10
    hassan i sabbahhassan i sabbah Posts: 3,987member
    [quote]Originally posted by Scott:

    <strong>Surely this is the first time anyone's identity has ever been mistake!</strong><hr></blockquote>



    This is different.



    The man was stopped and questioned for seven hours coming into Cape Town airport and then released. Enjoying his holiday he was arrested on the request of the FBI and taken to Durban Central Police Station.



    The FBI has an office in Durban.



    Then they did nothing. They didn't even come to the station to interview him, despite a complaint from the British Foreign Office, not for ten days. The media in South Africa and Britain were going nuts. I'm surprised this wasn't on the boards sooner.
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