Florida Student Arrested by Immigration Three Days After Acquittal on Bomb Charges

by via Democracy Now

Tue, Apr 7, 2009 8:30AM

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 :Immigration officials have arrested a twenty-three-year-old Florida student just three days after a jury acquitted him on federal explosives charges. Youssef Megahed was arrested in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart store Monday, where he had gone shopping with his father. He had just begun a fast to celebrate his acquittal. Megahed's attorneys say he now faces deportation proceedings, apparently on the same charges for which he was found not guilty.

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