Suspect Allegedly Planned To Poison Drinking Water
By Maria Glod
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 6, 2003
A Virginia state trooper was wounded and another man was killed during a shootout Tuesday night that occurred as authorities raided the Eastern Shore home of a man who reportedly had threatened to poison the state's drinking water, authorities said yesterday
FBI officials said agents have not found any "credible evidence which indicates an actual threat to the water supply." They said Ipolito Campos, who is suspected of making that threat, was arrested Tuesday on unrelated fraud charges for allegedly using a false Social Security number and a fake alien registration number.
The wounded trooper, H.A. Chambers, 32, who worked in Mathews County and has been with the department for five years, was shot in the arm and is in good condition at an Eastern Shore hospital, Virginia State Police spokesman Larry Hill said. Authorities have not released the name of the man who was killed, and Hill said police have not yet verified his identity.
Authorities released few details about what happened inside the trailer on Kellam Drive in rural Accomack County before shots were fired about 9:40 p.m. Phil Mann, chief division counsel at the FBI field office in Norfolk, would not say how many people were inside the home, how many were armed or who fired the shot that struck Chambers. He also would not say how many law enforcement officials returned fire. Mann said the investigation is continuing.
The investigation into Campos's alleged threat began Jan. 18 when an informant, who has not been identified by police, walked into the Acco mack Sheriff's Office and said a man known as "Polo" said he was from an "Arabian" country and had been sent to poison Virginia's water, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Norfolk in connection with the arrest warrant. The informant reported that "Polo further stated that if he did not poison the water, somebody would kill him," said the affidavit, written by FBI Special Agent Jason W. Freed of the Joint Terrorism Task Force
Officials at the seafood company later told officials that Polo's full name was Ipolito Campos and that he initially had worked at a processing plant but last fall started working on the company's fishing boats, according to the affidavit. Campos was fired in December after failing a random drug test while the boat was docked in Atlantic City, Freed's affidavit said.
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service officials told police that they had no record of anyone named Ipolito Campos and that the resident alien number he had used at Eastern Shore Seafood was fake, according to the affidavit. Authorities also learned that the Social Security number Ipolito used belonged to someone else
Prosecutors said in court yesterday that Campos was an illegal immigrant from Mexico.
On Tuesday, Freed obtained a criminal complaint against Campos and a warrant to search the trailer. Agents and troopers went in that night. Accomack is one of the poorest and most rural parts of Virginia. There is little industry in the area aside from farming, fishing and two poultry plants.
According to the affidavit
Ipolito lived with two men who went by the names Falco and Carlos. Authorities said they learned that Carlos's full name is Richard Guillen and that he is an employee at Eastern Shore Seafood.
Employees at the seafood company declined to comment yesterday.
Ipolito was charged with misuse of an identification document and Social Security fraud
before i coment on this to before you decide you question my faITH as a christen
let me state as before i do not have nothing against imigrants whocome here legaly
hmm imgine that a ileagel immergrant threatening to poision the water supply and using a false ssn # and false id and to think i was making i t all up that the ilegel immigrants cant get a ssn# i supose i will be told i have no compassion oh yes and this article comes from a liberel news paper
but lets not arrest him or deport him that whould be mean
article here
By Maria Glod
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 6, 2003
A Virginia state trooper was wounded and another man was killed during a shootout Tuesday night that occurred as authorities raided the Eastern Shore home of a man who reportedly had threatened to poison the state's drinking water, authorities said yesterday
FBI officials said agents have not found any "credible evidence which indicates an actual threat to the water supply." They said Ipolito Campos, who is suspected of making that threat, was arrested Tuesday on unrelated fraud charges for allegedly using a false Social Security number and a fake alien registration number.
The wounded trooper, H.A. Chambers, 32, who worked in Mathews County and has been with the department for five years, was shot in the arm and is in good condition at an Eastern Shore hospital, Virginia State Police spokesman Larry Hill said. Authorities have not released the name of the man who was killed, and Hill said police have not yet verified his identity.
Authorities released few details about what happened inside the trailer on Kellam Drive in rural Accomack County before shots were fired about 9:40 p.m. Phil Mann, chief division counsel at the FBI field office in Norfolk, would not say how many people were inside the home, how many were armed or who fired the shot that struck Chambers. He also would not say how many law enforcement officials returned fire. Mann said the investigation is continuing.
The investigation into Campos's alleged threat began Jan. 18 when an informant, who has not been identified by police, walked into the Acco mack Sheriff's Office and said a man known as "Polo" said he was from an "Arabian" country and had been sent to poison Virginia's water, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Norfolk in connection with the arrest warrant. The informant reported that "Polo further stated that if he did not poison the water, somebody would kill him," said the affidavit, written by FBI Special Agent Jason W. Freed of the Joint Terrorism Task Force
Officials at the seafood company later told officials that Polo's full name was Ipolito Campos and that he initially had worked at a processing plant but last fall started working on the company's fishing boats, according to the affidavit. Campos was fired in December after failing a random drug test while the boat was docked in Atlantic City, Freed's affidavit said.
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service officials told police that they had no record of anyone named Ipolito Campos and that the resident alien number he had used at Eastern Shore Seafood was fake, according to the affidavit. Authorities also learned that the Social Security number Ipolito used belonged to someone else
Prosecutors said in court yesterday that Campos was an illegal immigrant from Mexico.
On Tuesday, Freed obtained a criminal complaint against Campos and a warrant to search the trailer. Agents and troopers went in that night. Accomack is one of the poorest and most rural parts of Virginia. There is little industry in the area aside from farming, fishing and two poultry plants.
According to the affidavit
Ipolito lived with two men who went by the names Falco and Carlos. Authorities said they learned that Carlos's full name is Richard Guillen and that he is an employee at Eastern Shore Seafood.
Employees at the seafood company declined to comment yesterday.
Ipolito was charged with misuse of an identification document and Social Security fraud
before i coment on this to before you decide you question my faITH as a christen
let me state as before i do not have nothing against imigrants whocome here legaly
hmm imgine that a ileagel immergrant threatening to poision the water supply and using a false ssn # and false id and to think i was making i t all up that the ilegel immigrants cant get a ssn# i supose i will be told i have no compassion oh yes and this article comes from a liberel news paper
but lets not arrest him or deport him that whould be mean
article here
