Arrested by Mistake for The Similarity of Names
by Said Federal Bureau of Investigation (F. Me. Any) that the local police in the city of Dearborn, Michigan United States arrested the head of a cultural center of Arab origin,
Eph. Me. Which issued earlier in the memorandum of 18 men accused of a federal form a cell smuggling funds to Hezbollah (Reuters)
on suspicion of involvement in pumping money to Lebanese Hezbollah, and later found that it was not the wanted man was released .
The Edward Fries Dearborn Police Sergeant in that Ali Hammoud, head girl Jbeil Cultural Center was held on Friday from his home on the arrest warrant, was released on Saturday.
She explained a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation Sandra Perctold that information on the identity of the suspect, which was adopted by the Dearborn police in his arrest, the identity data match another man is wanted.
The spokeswoman said, “The FBI agents met with Ali Hammoud in custody, where he was adamant that the man is not required in the warrant.”
The lawyer that his client – in the mid-sixties – was arrested by the similarity in name with a wanted man accused in a federal memorandum of 18 men to form a cell smuggling funds to Hezbollah.
And put the U.S. State Department Lebanese Hezbollah on its list of organizations that say they support terrorism.
The singer’s lawyer said Majed Hamoud “The arrest of his client on Friday hit the Arab American community in Detroit was shocked.”
The singer stressed that the cultural center run by his client, who is known in Detroit, and provides services on a wide range of immigrants from a village in southern Lebanon, Hammoud’s home, explaining that the person mentioned in the warrant fled to Lebanon.
Source: Reuters
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