Forum: (news posts)
Topic: It's true, you can get anything on the net!
started by: Wolfguard
Posted by Wolfguard on Jul. 23 2002,19:08
| Quote | Stolen Moon Rocks Found on Internet
Three space center employees and another man were charged in an alleged plot to sell stolen moon rocks from the Apollo missions for $1,000 to $5,000 a gram, the FBI said.
A 600-pound safe full of moon rocks and meteorites was stolen from the Johnson Space Center in Houston, and officials realized it was missing July 15, space center spokesman Kyle Herring said. It contained lunar samples from every Apollo mission.
Undercover FBI agents arrested Thad Roberts, 25, Tiffany Fowler, 22, and Gordon McWorter, 26, on Saturday in Orlando. They were charged with conspiracy to commit the theft of government property and transportation in interstate commerce of stolen property.
Shae Saur, 19, was arrested in Houston, and charged with conspiracy, FBI officials said. Roberts, Fowler, and Saur have been fired from their jobs at the space center, Herring said. Their job descriptions were not immediately known.
No one answered the phone at the Tampa federal public defender's office after business hours Monday and it could not be determined if the suspects have attorneys.
Undercover agents received an e-mail tip in May and started communicating with a person offering "priceless moon rocks" collected by Apollo astronauts in 1969 and the early 1970s, FBI agent James Jarboe said.
The ad was placed May 9th on the web site of the Mineralogy Club of Antwerp, Belgium, according to the criminal complaint filed Monday in federal court in Tampa.
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Gee Forest, i bet you did'nt think the feds would catch you if you sold the stuff on the internet.
Posted by Necromancer on Jul. 23 2002,22:27
woo moon rock.... wow..... i've looked at some real moon rock before at uni. nothing very interesting about it. no valuable metals contained in it really. oh how i wish they'd tried selling it on ebay that would have been a laugh.
Posted by CatKnight on Jul. 24 2002,21:07
one of my mom's jobs at the national archives is to go around ebay and look for stuff stolen from the archives. she's found i think 3 or 4 valuable things stolen in the last several years, although they havn't caught the theif yet.
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