FBI SAYS TRUCKER IRKED AT BOSS IN MISSILE DUMPING.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A debt-ridden truck driver dumped a shipment of four unarmed Air Force missiles in Texas after his company refused to give him a $500 advance, the FBI said in documents released Saturday. Ronald D. Coy was arrested Friday at a truck stop in Orange, several hours after the $1 million missile shipment was found 300 miles away in Ranger, and charged with wire fraud. Coy, 42, of Middletown, Ohio Middletown is an All-American City[2] located in Butler and Warren counties in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Formerly in Lemon, Turtlecreek, and Franklin townships, Middletown was incorporated by the Ohio General Assembly on February 11, 1833, and , shook his head in disbelief at a hearing Saturday when told of the charge. An FBI affidavit claims Coy, who is $115,000 in debt, tried wheedling whee·dle v. whee·dled, whee·dling, whee·dles v.tr. 1. To persuade or attempt to persuade by flattery or guile; cajole. 2. cash advances out of his trucking company while he was on the road. ``I have nothing to hide. Let's go Let's Go may refer to: Television
The wire-fraud charge stems from statements Coy is suspected of making to his employer on the telephone and has nothing to do with the armaments, which the Air Force said were not explosive and posed no risk to the public. The devices are worth $115,000 each, but with packaging have an overall value of $1 million, the affidavit says. ``We have no indication that he was part of any conspiracy,'' U.S. Attorney Mike Bradford said Saturday. Bradford declined to say whether Coy even knew he was carrying missiles. Cheetah Trucking Co. gave Coy $500 in expense money on April 14 and sent him to pick up the armaments at a Boeing plant in Duluth, Ga., and deliver the cargo four days later to Cannon Air Force Base Cannon Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base in Curry County, New Mexico. The host wing is the 27th Special Operations Wing,[1] whose mission includes infiltration, exfiltration and re-supply of special operations forces; air refueling of special in New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). . Coy never arrived to deliver the armaments. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the affidavit, Coy called Cheetah on April 18 from Georgia, said his rig had broken down in Texas, and asked for a $750 advance for repairs. The company complied. On Monday, Coy sought a $500 advance on the telephone from Rayville, La. This time the company refused, the affidavit said. Instead of making the delivery, Coy dumped the missile cargo in Ranger, Texas Ranger is a city in Eastland County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,584 at the 2000 census. Ranger College, a community college, located in the town is the second largest employer. Geography Ranger is located at (32. , then called Cheetah the next day and told the company where to find it, according to the FBI. On Wednesday, Coy arranged to make a pickup for a Weatherford, Texas, company and accepted a $500 advance from that firm Thursday. Authorities initially said the missile cargo was being monitored by satellite until it vanished from computer screens Thursday. Standard military practice is to place tracking equipment on trucks carrying weapons and other sensitive equipment. |
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