Man with AK-47 assault rifle arrested after leaving Dearborn's Hemlock Park
PUBLISHED: September 12, 2007
DEARBORN -
Houssein Zorkot, a 26-year-old Dearborn resident, was arraigned Tuesday in 19th District Court on multiple felony charges, including carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent — a five-year felony.
Zorkot,
a third-year medical student (Note: were the ones arrested recently in a bombing plot Doctors or something?) at Wayne State University, was allegedly armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and dressed in black clothing with camouflage paint covering his face when he was arrested Saturday in Hemlock Park.
According to police, Zorkot was observed attempting to leave the park in a black SUV after officers had received reports of a man carrying a rifle in the area. He was placed under arrest and is scheduled to undergo a preliminary examination at 9 a.m. Sept. 21 in 19th District Court.
Zorkot has also been charged with one count of possession of a loaded firearm in a motor vehicle and one count of felony firearm.
He remains in custody on a $1 million bond (cash, no 10 percent). (Note: this is not the normal Bond for this charge, must be some reason they upped the bond amount)
September 15, 2007
Zorkot Update
We wrote here about the arrest of Houssein Zorkot, a third-year medical student who was apprehended in Dearborn, Michigan, with a loaded AK-47 and his face covered with camouflage paint.
Zorkot maintained an Islamist web site on which he proclaimed his admiration for Hezbollah.Today, the local newspaper in Dearborn reported that a laptop seized from Zorkot's home is being examined for any evidence of connections with terrorist groups. It also contains a fuller description of the circumstances of Zorkot's arrest than was published earlier this week.
Zorkot's arrest has gone virtually unreported. A Google News search indicates that it has been covered in the local Dearborn and Detroit newspapers.
Fox News picked up the story within the last 24 hours. Beyond that, it has been reported only by Newsbusters, Spero News, the Christian Broadcasting Network and Power Line and a handful of other web sites that, for some reason, don't show up on Google News.Well well what have we here? To quote an astute fellow JU Blogger -
...shall we play "geuss the ethnicity/religion"?
I have not verified the Google news issue but I found it mentioned a very few times in a search. Just pointing this out to bolster the idea behind this thread...
PS here is his website..
http://www.zorkot.org/JabalAmel.html
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