Man threatens FBI building with burrito

Man threatens FBI building with burrito

                                 

(Not the actual burrito. Photo of an actor.)

Updated: Friday, 14 Jun 2013, 6:21 AM MDT
Published : Friday, 14 Jun 2013, 6:21 AM MDT

• Tina Jensen

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - A man is in federal custody after allegedly threatening to blow up the Albuquerque FBI building by placing an explosive inside a burrito.

Investigators say 50-year-old Brian DeMarco made two threats on federal buildings from the Super 8 motel off of Coors Boulevard.

A federal affidavit says DeMarco first called an FBI phone line in West Virginia on Tuesday night saying he was going to send a burrito bomb to the Albuquerque FBI field office.

That was followed by a phone call the next morning to a Denver Department of Homeland Security office, saying he would blow up the Albuquerque Social Security office at 10 a.m. using a timer-detonated device.

The offices were evacuated but no explosives were found.

Federal agents traced the call to the Super 8 Motel where they caught up with DeMarco.

Investigators say he told them he was angry at the U.S. Government because he believed it had “placed a tracking device inside his head” in addition to “beaming photons into his head.”

He also told them he has been diagnosed with Schizophrenia and Bipolar disorder.

(DeMarco was detained and charged with making threats and creating a hoax.)

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When truth is stranger than fiction?  Why didn't he just give them a gift certificate to taco bell?

It would have accomplished the same thing and they wouldn't have arrested him!

Why People Believed Fake Bomb Detectors Worked

 

A British businessman who sold the Iraqi security forces more than 6,000 fake bomb detectors based on $20 golf ball finders bought from the United States was convicted of fraud on Tuesday in Britain’s central criminal court. The businessman, James McCormick, 56, was described in court as having made more than $75 million from sales of the fake device in Iraq and Georgia, among other places, claiming they could detect bombs, drugs, currency and ivory, and track objects up to 3,280 feet below ground.

Here's how and why he got away with it for so long

How and why,  this is also why we have entire professions doing much the same thing. Homeopaths, chiropractors, faith healers, acupuncturists, dowsers, fortune tellers, etc.......I could go on..........And I'm probably offending someone here, but at 65 now, I reserve the right to be opinionated. :-)

And the "golf ball finders" he used? McCormick's first model, the ADE-101, was a re-badged golf ball finder that was described by its US maker as "a great novelty item that you should have fun with".

The antenna was "no more a radio antenna than a nine-inch nail", one scientist told the jury.