Bail denied for explosives-theft suspect

[dArKeR]

A federal judge refused Wednesday to grant bail to the man charged in connection with the theft of about 200 pounds of police explosives from a San Mateo County storage bunker, saying the suspect's drug addiction and "affection for weapons" are a dangerous combination.

Michael Alexander Allan's attorney asked U.S. Magistrate Wayne Brazil to order her client into a residential drug treatment program.

Assistant federal Public Defender Joyce Leavitt said that the Hayward cabinet maker's nine-year year criminal history stems from his addiction to methamphetamines since 1995.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/14/explosives14.TMP

One obvious factual point abou this case:
1. The first days of the case broke it was published TV/internet that the explosives were SF Police and San Mateo County Sheriff's. (ATF spokesperson said.)
2. The third day I personally saw the same ATF spokesperson say the explosives were SF Police and San Mateo County Sheriff's and the FBI's. (You can see that there were 3 containers broken in to..)
3. Today, July 14, the NBC local news has dropped the FBI in it's report.

[Turley]

1. A drug addict

Who uses an acetylene torch to cut his way into an explosives bunker.

I can live with him being off the streets for a while.

[dArKeR]

2. They were not 'bunkers'. If you saw them on TV you can see that they

looked like sea shpping containers. Sitting out in the middle of nowhere. No guards, no video serveillence.