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Human smuggling Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/kr/20021028/lo_krnewyork/antigua_links_muhammad_to_human_smuggling_ring http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/kr/20021028/lo_krnewyork/antigua_links_muhammad_to_human_smuggling_ring Local - New York Daily News Antigua links Muhammad to human-smuggling ring Mon Oct 28, 7:19 AM ET By GREG GITTRICH DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Foreign immigration officials suspect that accused sniper John Allen Muhammad ran a human smuggling and fake passport operation out of the Caribbean - where he first met his teen sidekick, Lee Boyd Malvo. The illegal racket might explain how Muhammad was able to travel frequently on planes and flash a wad of cash even while living in a homeless shelter in Washington State. Authorities on the island of Antigua, where Muhammad lived with his three children from his second wife, are investigating his ties to the lucrative black market business, the Seattle Times reported. U.S. officials would not comment on immigration violations that landed Muhammad in the custody of U.S. and Antigua officials twice last year. Nabbed in Miami In April 2001, Muhammad was detained at Miami International Airport for several hours after allegedly attempting to sneak two undocumented Jamaican women into the country, the Miami Herald reported. Immigration inspectors believed Muhammad and the women were using false documents. Muhammad was released after investigators concluded he was born in Louisiana and was a U.S. citizen. But the women were deported. A U.S. official told the Herald that Immigration and Naturalization Service investigators wanted to prosecute Muhammad for alien smuggling and document fraud but no charges were filed because of a lack of evidence. At the time, Antiguan immigration officials were pursuing Muhammad for the same thing. A month before the Miami incident, Muhammad was held at the airport in St. John's, Antigua, after he tried to board a plane to Los Angeles via Miami, the Seattle Times reported. He was carrying a Washington State driver's license under the name Russel Dwight. Antigua jailbreak Truehart Smith, police commissioner of Antigua and Barbuda, told the Herald that Muhammad escaped from custody while at a St. John's police station. Cops searched neighboring streets, but Smith said: "We never found him." It was on the island where Malvo, 17, a Jamaican, also charged in the sniper shootings, moved in at some point with Muhammad. According to one report, Malvo's mother had asked Muhammad to get her fake documents so she could sneak into the U.S. Two months after Muhammad was stopped in Florida, Malvo and his mother arrived in the country aboard a cargo ship near Miami, the Herald reported. Malvo would eventually travel to Bellingham, Wash., where he and Muhammad allegedly set out on their violent spree. The FBI (news - web sites) is investigating whether several unsolved murders and holdups are linked to them.

Acquired passports Bellingham Human smuggling Many identities { October 31 2002 } Warning year ago Files Listed: 5

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