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...April 2005, sheriff's deputies reached a suburban Seattle home in time to prevent a firebomb from detonating. But there was nothing the sheriff's department could do to defuse another volatile situation at the site: a feud between the explosives teams that showed up including the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...
...attempted arson was the apparent handiwork of the Earth Liberation Front, a designated domestic terrorist group. But trouble at the scene emerged when FBI and ATF explosives experts seemed to believe their own agencies should head the investigation, recalls Sergeant John Urquhart, a spokesman for the King County sheriff's office. "It was clear that there was something going on. There was tension between the groups of ATF agents and FBI agents," Urquhart tells TIME. (See pictures of crime in middle America...
...both, that when Falcon was found to have been hiding out in the attic the whole time, we still sought the gentle explanation. Maybe it was an accident? He'd unleashed the balloon and then hidden out, for fear of getting in trouble. On Oct. 16, Larimer County sheriff Jim Alderden announced that he was "convinced" the parents were telling the truth about thinking their son was truly in peril; so were many other people when they heard the frantic father and sobbing mother on the 911 call. But this time it may have been police who were laying...
...have evidence to indicate it was a publicity stunt," said sheriff Alderden on Sunday afternoon at a news conference in Fort Collins, Colo., "done with the hope of marketing themselves to a reality-television show sometime in the future." Officials had interviewed the parents and children separately, searched the home and computers and financial records. But by then we already knew. We had watched the family ricochet from one talk show to the next like marbles in the pinball machine, tripping the lights, ringing the bells, savoring the spotlight until the moment on Larry King Live when Richard asked Falcon...
...sheriff was looking into charges of conspiracy, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, false reporting to authorities and attempting to influence a public servant. "Needless to say, they put on a very good show for us and we bought it," sheriff Alderden said. The Heenes could face six years in prison and a $500,000 fine on each of two felony counts. In the meantime, we can thank all the people who tried to help a child they thought in trouble; and pity those children; and pity, especially, the next child who needs our help, if we pause...