Media Center > Ticket Dropped In Florida Terrorist Flase Alarm

Wednesday, September 18, 2002
Source: Reuters

MIAMI (Reuters) - Florida police dismissed a traffic citation against one of three Muslim medical students interrogated as terrorist suspects in a false alarm last week, the men's lawyer said on Wednesday.

Collier County Sheriff's deputies issued a ticket on Friday to one of the three, Kambiz Butt, charging he failed to pay a toll on Alligator Alley, the main east-west highway through the Everglades.

The men's lawyer, David Kubiliun, said Collier Sheriff Don Hunter notified him on Wednesday that authorities had voided the ticket after reviewing a toll plaza videotape that showed him paying the toll.