Ann Arbor Company Gets Credit In Terror Bust
ANN ARBOR (WWJ) - An Ann Arbor-based company is getting credit for tipping off federal authorities in an alleged terror plot.
A college student from Saudi Arabia has been accused of buying chemicals online as part of a plan to blow up key U.S. targets, including the home of former President George W. Bush.
The chemicals came through Conway Freight's Lubbock, Texas facility.
WWJ Newsradio 950 spoke with Curtis Schuchuck senior director of corporate security at Conway Freight, who said the service center manager and another employee noticed something wasn't quite right.
"(It was) the method the shipment was made, how it was made and, secondly, was what the product was. And, a totality of other circumstances that I can't go into, that sort of led to the recognition that we would consider this a risky shipment," Schuchuck said.
The 20-year-old Saudi Arabian man, who's been studying chemical engineering in Texas, made his first appearance in federal court Friday.
A judge ordered him held until a hearing next month.
