Standoff In Fairview Heights Began With Feds' Investigation

[maddezmom]

Source: Fox2now.com

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, IL (KTVI-FOX2now.com) — Police and federal agents are locked in a standoff with a man they say is threatening to blow himself and others up. And police say the suspect has the know-how to do it. The scene of the incident is Summit Drive, not far from New Bunkum Road in Fairview Heights. Police say the man has bomb disposal experience, leading them to take his threats very seriously.

Officials say it began around 7:30 Tuesday evening when Fairfview Heights officer, FBI agents, and the Secret Service went to the home to question the man living there in connection with some sort of federal investigation. Officials are not saying what the investigation is about or why the resident, a fifty year old man, was being questioned.

Officials say the incident quickly turned confrontational, with the man beginning to make threats and claiming he had explosives. Police immediately pulled back, set up a perimeter, and called in the bomb squad. Sources say a bomb unit from Scott Air Force Base has been brought in.

"It was not an arrest situation," Lt. Steve Evans of the Fairview Heights Police told reporters. "I don't know what their role was other than they went there not expecting this type of confrontation."



Read more: http://www.latimes.com/ktvi-fairview-heights-standoff-explosives-092110,0,2620551.story

[maddezmom]

1. looks like he was posting on FB

A man whose name was broadcast in police radio transmissions about the standoff posted remarked about the situation earlier Tuesday on Facebook.

At about 5 p.m., the man wrote: "I need everbody with a camera phone or video phone or video cameras to come to 9030 Summit Drive in Fairview Heights, Illinois. The media and your goverment tthink this is a joke. I'm not joking."

Earlier on Tuesday, the man wrote that he was going to burn a Quran, and added that "6 other CDs will be released upon my death or arrest against other countries on the Internet. this is not a joke."

The man's writings indicate he had been involved recently in a child-custody dispute.

The man wrote on Aug. 24: "there is no way judge kelly is a christian judge. so i guess god will punish him to the fullest of his wrath."

Also on Aug. 24, the man wrote about having been awake for 92 hours straight: "opps typo well what the h... Been awake over 92hr.im lucky i can see the keyboard doe!"

In his biographical information on Facebook, the man states that he's "anti gov" and that "they are way overpaid."



Read more: http://www.bnd.com/2010/09/22/1409388/police-say-armed-man-holding-woman.html#ixzz10EknxXHF

[fasttense]

2. Sounds like another Tea-bagger pushed over the edge by Limpballs

and Becker Head. I would think they would keep their minions calm, so that they aren't in jail and unable to vote RepubliCON.

[maddezmom]

3. UPDATE: Man surrenders in Fairview Heights standoff

UPDATE: Man surrenders in Fairview Heights standoff
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Fairview Heights, IL (KSDK) -- Residents of a Metro East neighborhood were evacuated for a time after police responded to a man who allegedly barricaded himself in a home claiming to have a bomb and hostages.

Officials say the went to a home in the 9000 block of Summit in Fairview Heights Tuesday afternoon to investigate alleged threats from a resident living there, made over the telephone.

Investigators say the man living there was allegedly wearing a belt with what he described as explosives attached to it. The resident also claimed to have 55 gallon drums rigged with explosives as well.

Fairview Heights police say during the course of the ordeal; the residents wife and son were also at the home, but were released by the alleged suspect Tuesday evening.

Just after 2am this morning; the man exited the home and surrendered to authorities, without incident. He was taken into federal custody pending charges. His name has not been released at this time.
More:http://www.ksdk.com/life/programming/local/tisl/story.aspx?storyid=217783&catid=97

[maddezmom]

4. more: Threats to president, Muslims lead to Fairview Heights hostage standoff

Threats to president, Muslims lead to Fairview Heights hostage standoff
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Text Size: tool nameclose tool goes here A 50-year-old man with a suicide belt wrapped around his waist, with wires coming out of it and attached to a curling iron he claimed was a triggering device met FBI and Secret Service agents Tuesday night while they were investigating threats made to Muslims and President Barack Obama.

The man surrendered at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday, shortly after releasing his wife and son.

Roman Conaway, 50, of 9030 Summit Drive in Fairview Heights, was arrested on suspicion of threats to the president and to law enforcement with an explosive device, according to FBI Special Agent in Charge Stu McArthur.




Read more: http://www.bnd.com/2010/09/22/1409388/police-say-armed-man-holding-woman.html#ixzz10Fm1A9ap

[Ian David]

5. Another Teabagger terrorist. n/t

[No Elephants]

6. He threateed the President, but they did not expect trouble when they went to question him?

Or did he threaten the President only after the feds showed up to question him?

Poor reporting.

[Blue_Tires]

7. Guess the judge was correct after all in that child custody case

What a nutbar...