.Rocket Launcher Found In Apartment
HOUSTON -- Police went to a southwest Houston apartment to break up a disturbance but ended up finding something else, KPRC Local 2 reported Wednesday.
A woman called police on Monday and said a man was forcing his way into her apartment in the 5300 block of Elm Street.
When officers went inside, they found something that made them concerned enough to call the bomb squad.
They found an AT-4 shoulder-mounted rocket launcher. It can shoot a missile nearly 1,000 feet through buildings and tanks.
"It gives infantrymen the advantage with an ultra-light weapon that can stop vehicles, armored vehicles as well as main battle tanks and fortifications," said Oscar Saldivar of Top Brass Military and Tactical on the North Freeway.
That type of rocket launcher has been used in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The renter of the apartment didn't want to talk to KPRC Local 2.
"This is my house," the woman said. " Get away from here. I don't want to talk to nobody."
The woman did tell police that the rocket launcher belonged to Nabilaye I. Yansane, someone whom she allowed to store items at her apartment.
Police records show that she didn't want Yansane at her apartment, so she called them.
According to court documents, officers also found Jihadist writings that allegedly belonged to Yansane. The woman didn't want to talk to KPRC Local 2 about that, either.
"I don't know," she said. "You'll have to ask the police."
Yansane was charged with criminal trespassing and pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to three days in jail, which he has already served. No charges related to the rocket launcher or writings were filed.
"Other people could have had access to the apartment, so maybe if a rocket launcher was located there, as is stated in the offense report, maybe it belonged to somebody else," attorney Garl Polland said.
Prosecutors said there are no state charges for having the unarmed launcher or possessing Jihadist writings, unless they contain some type of threat.
The former director of Houston's FBI office said rocket launchers can be dangerous if they're in the wrong hands.
"I don't know any other use for those weapons except in combat," Don Clark said. "I've had them in combat, used them in combat. That's what they are used for."
Houston police said they did a thorough investigation and did not find any ties to terrorists or a terrorist network.
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And here we thought everyone would love America once we elected O as President.
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Looks kind of like an AT-4. If it's just the empty case, it's harmless. You can tell when you pick it up. If it's heavy, it's hot.
If it feels like an empty plastic tube, it's been used and is harmless.
Problem is, we need to hire more vets to be cops.
And if it's not just a trophy, what could you bring down with an AT-4, an anti tank weapon? what could they have been planning, and assassination?
You can get one in Mexico, so maybe it's just the drug wars..
Only in America, the damn thing bring firing instructions printed on the side...I wonder if it's got a warning label on the other side?
Oh, about the cop thing, I think the media has everyone scared that you vets are all whacked out psychos with anger issues, might explain why the nations police forces aren't scooping all the vets up as ready to go cops
They let this guy go even though they found jihadist writings there also? Give him a bit more time and he'll really make headlines.
Anybody else remember this?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,524539,00.html
Continental Express pilot reported seeing a "missile or rocket" flying near his aircraft Friday night over Texas, the Houston Chronicle reported.
The pilot told the Federal Aviation Administration an object was spotted within 150 feet below his airplane around 8:15 p.m. Friday night over Liberty County, Texas, the newspaper reported.
Liberty County Chief Deputy Ken DeFoor told FOXNews.com that officials met Tuesday with the FBI and the FAA to investigate the pilot's claims.
"We put all our notes together, and after they debrief the pilot we will have more information to go on," DeFoor said.
The plane had 29 people on board and was heading from Houston to South Carolina, he said. There were no interruptions in the flight.
DeFoor told FOXNews.com he couldn't say whether or not terrorism was suspected or if the plane was targeted. Graduation ceremonies were being held about the same time as the pilot reported seeing the rocket, and it could have been a hobby rocket someone set off.
“The pilot, from what we understand, was former military," Cpl. Hugh Bishop of the Liberty County Sheriff’s Department told the Chronicle. "He was able to get the coordinates down real quick.”
But, Bishop said deputies searched for where a missile might have been launched from and found nothing.
The plane reportedly was flying around 13,000 feet.
The FAA referred all questions to the sheriff's office. Attempts to the reach the FBI in Houston were not immediately successful.
Once again the media doesn't check its facts. Yansane is a Marine combat vet. Served in Somalia and Panama. He is Christian...not Muslim .Jihadist writings are probably something written in his native tongue. He was born somewhere in western africa. He has done more for this country than most of the retards that scream and shout on blogs from the safety of their couch and have never stood underneath the American flag under fire in a foreign land. His only crime is...what the hell was he was doing with that fat girl????? Damn "insane" (thats what we called him in the fleet) what the hell? The girls in Panama were wayyyyyyyy better.... Dont listen to all these civilian mo-tards. (mo-tard = so falsely motivated, your retarded)
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