Not Good
An American citizen of Ethiopian descent was arrested at the Detroit airport after arriving from Amsterdam. He had a very large amount of money ($78,000) and a laptop computer. But no power source for the computer. What really caught the inspector's eyes was the material on the computer.
Information on nuclear materials and cyanide.
Sisayehiticha Dinssa was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after he was flagged for secondary inspection on entry to the U.S. at the Detroit Airport and was found to be carrying more than $78,000 in cash. Customs officials became suspicious of Dinssa when a narcotics dog signaled the scent of drugs on the money in his possession.
Customs officers also discovered that Dinssa was in possession of a laptop computer for which he had no power source. During an initial look at the computer, "Inspectors discovered some files that had been downloaded with information about cyanide and nuclear materials," an affidavit from an ICE agent filed in the U.S. District Court in Detroit noted.
According to two senior U.S. government officials briefed on the matter, the files appear to be beyond what someone would normally download from the Internet. According to U.S. officials, Dinssa may have been researching the materials extensively.
Dinssa had claimed he was only carrying $18,000. It is undetermined if this is an alleged smuggling
This would be a less than wonderful development.
By crosspatch, Thursday, 16 November , 2006 @ 11:50 pm
I dunno. My guess would be that he was probably a courier for someone else. Otherwise he would probably have had the power source for the laptop. Betchya he was instructed to deliver the money and the computer to someone else.