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LOS Angeles police are hunting a mystery man who fled as they raided his apartment, leaving behind piles of bogus cash, high-tech counterfeiting equipment and weapons, it was reported on Friday.
The Los Angeles Times quoted police officers as saying that the 33-year-old suspect escaped from his high-rise apartment via a back window and via escape in a scene reminiscent of the Bourne Identity action films.
'He escaped like Jason Bourne,' Los Angeles Police Department deputy chief Mike Downing of the Counter-Terrorism Bureau, told the Times. After being given the slip, detectives discovered stacks of counterfeit US$100 bills totaling US$15,000 ($20,610), sophisticated counterfeiting equipment, a camera tripod and a cache of weapons including an AK-47 assault rifle.
Police also discovered multiple identification documents including passports under different aliases which has left them wondering who exactly they are hunting, the Times reported. The US$3,400-a-month penthouse's balcony was also directly opposite the US Federal Reserve Building in downtown Los Angeles.
'There were many levels of criminality,' Mr Downing told the Times. 'He's funding a criminal enterprise. He's dabbling in narcotics, he's manufacturing weapons parts. But what is it? Was there a bigger plan? What was his intent? We have a lot of questions for him when he is arrested.'
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_521414.html
The Los Angeles Times quoted police officers as saying that the 33-year-old suspect escaped from his high-rise apartment via a back window and via escape in a scene reminiscent of the Bourne Identity action films.
'He escaped like Jason Bourne,' Los Angeles Police Department deputy chief Mike Downing of the Counter-Terrorism Bureau, told the Times. After being given the slip, detectives discovered stacks of counterfeit US$100 bills totaling US$15,000 ($20,610), sophisticated counterfeiting equipment, a camera tripod and a cache of weapons including an AK-47 assault rifle.
Police also discovered multiple identification documents including passports under different aliases which has left them wondering who exactly they are hunting, the Times reported. The US$3,400-a-month penthouse's balcony was also directly opposite the US Federal Reserve Building in downtown Los Angeles.
'There were many levels of criminality,' Mr Downing told the Times. 'He's funding a criminal enterprise. He's dabbling in narcotics, he's manufacturing weapons parts. But what is it? Was there a bigger plan? What was his intent? We have a lot of questions for him when he is arrested.'
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_521414.html
