Federal Grand Jury Indicts Rockford, Ill., Man in Foiled Plan to Set Off Grenades in Rockford Shopping Mall
CHICAGO, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Rockford, Ill., man, whowas arrested last month and charged with allegedly planning to set offseveral grenades in garbage cans at a shopping mall in Rockford, wasformally indicted today on the same charges, federal authorities announced.
The defendant, Derrick Shareef, was arrested on Dec. 6, 2006, by agents of the FBI-led Chicago Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) when he met withan undercover agent at a store parking lot in Rockford to trade a set ofstereo speakers for four hand grenades and a hand gun.
A federal grand jury in Chicago today returned a two-count indictment charging Shareef with one count of attempting to damage or destroy abuilding by fire or explosion and one count of attempting to use a weaponof mass destruction, announced Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge ofthe Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Patrick J.Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. Those arethe same charges that were brought against Shareef in a criminal complaintat the time of his arrest.
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3 comments:
Well they keep busy at the DOJ in my area. The good thing they got the guys selling outdated salad dressing, a truckload of Broccoli last month, a truckload of Asparagus this week, next would be salad. Crimminals in Chicago/Cook County stoop to no level.
Desperate people do desperate things.,
MY LITTLE ANGEL
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