Im annemarie green. Two men arrested on terrorism related charges are expected to make their Court Appearances today. Both are refuges from the middle east and there may be a connection. Brian webb is here in new york with the details. Good morning, brian. Reporter good morning. Federal prosecutors say there is no indication that either suspect was planning an attack in the u. S. But the arrest drew immediate criticism of the president s refuge policy. Court documents reveal the 23yearold sacramento suspect communicated over social media with an unnamed individual living in texas back in 2013. In one exchange, the two allegedly discussed training and fighting overseas. The texas person, identified as individual i, writes, i need to learn from your weapon expertise. The sacramento suspect responds, if you arrive and i am still there, i will train you. Thursday accuses the Sacramento Man of traveling to syria from the u. S. And back again after fighting alongside a terror organization, t
And released from a local hospital. The suspect is still on the loose. Live in the west village, cbs 2 news. Steve, thank you. Now to philadelphia where an officer is recovering after surviving a violent ambush. Investigators say he fired 13 rounds, three hitting the officer, cbs 2 joins us live from West Philadelphia with more, justin. Mary, good afternoon and new this afternoon, Police Sources telling us this suspect gave them a full confession saying he shot this officer 13 times in the name of islam. I want to pull up a photo, this is from surveillance video, taken at the time of the shooting it shows that suspect hovering over that cruiser firing inside, he was hit and on track to recover. About midnight the officer made a frightening call for him. Ive been shot, bleeding heavily. Range while inside his cruiser. His father got the news soon after. Knocking at the door, and ringing my phone. Police say officer heartnet returned fire taking down the suspect as he tried to run away.
Benefitted tivest. On top of that burfoot is also accused of convincing a developer to pay the mother of his children 25 thousand dollars to help pay for a condo at widgeons point. In exchange burfoot used his votes to open a Gentlemans Club downtown according to the indictment. But burfoot s attorney andrew sacks is saying all of the allegations are false and that burfoot will not be stepping down as treasurer. 20;02 anthony is in disbelief these things ring totally foreign to him and again i think it s a combination of people who do not like him people who are jealous of him 21;12 these are just paper accusations and believe me when we get to trial we are confident that he is going to be cleared of this. Now burfoot is facing conspiracy to defraud the interstate Wire Communications to further scheme to defraud the citizens of norfolk, two counts of conspiracy to obtain property under color of official right, and four counts of perjury and one count of forfeiture prosecutors say burfo
Both refugees leading to any questions. Is is the u. S. Doing enough . Lana zak live in washington for us. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The two men arrested in california and texas, both were refugees from iraq, one coming to the United States through syria. In sacramento, a 23yearold iraqi man arrested accused of trying to travel to syria to fight with terror organizations and in houston a 24yearold iraqi man was charged woo providing Material Support to isis. Their Refugee Status is sparking new criticism from republicans that the u. S. Is not doing enough to screen refugees for potential ties to terrorism. The governor of texas urging president obama to halt the flow of refugees until there is, quote, an effective vetting process. The Lieutenant Governor of texas weighing in saying it may have prevented a catastrophic terror related event in the making and u. S. Attorneys office tells our station in sacramento there is a connection between the two men but would not elaborate
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