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To: Silver_Bullet who wrote (7192)	2/28/2002 6:30:00 PM
From: Bucky Katt	Respond to of 48461

Another security "half-wit" and these are the guys we are supposed to trust?> Security guard lied about finding radio By Patricia Hurtado, Special to the Tribune. Patricia Hurtado is a staff writer for Newsday, a Tribune newspaper Published February 28, 2002 NEW YORK -- A security guard at a World Trade Center-area hotel pleaded guilty Wednesday to lying about finding an aviation radio inside a locked safe in an Egyptian student's room. The lie wrongly connected the student to the Sept. 11 attacks and left him jailed for a month. Ronald Ferry, 48, told U.S. District Court Judge George Daniels that he had neither discovered the radio nor found the device in Abdallah Higazy's room at the Millennium Hilton. Ferry and other security guards were doing an inventory of belongings left behind in the Sept. 11 evacuation when he said he discovered the "transceiver," a device marketed to pilots that enables them to communicate air-to-air and air-to-ground. "I knew it was found on a desk in that room, it was found by a co-worker of mine," Ferry told Daniels, admitting he had lied to agents when they initially interviewed him in December. The radio turned out to belong to a pilot staying in the hotel across the street from the World Trade Center. Ferry, a former Newark, N.J., police officer who lives in the Bronx, could face up to 5 years in prison and a fine up to $250,000 when Daniels sentences him May 30. He is free on $50,000 bail. His lawyer, Anthony Ricco, said his client was not cooperating with investigators and had no agreement with prosecutors. Ricco said later his client was "caught up in the atmosphere after Sept. 11." "He thought he was being a good citizen," Ricco told reporters. "He thought that he was helping get the people we wanted to believe are responsible for this act." The student, Higazy, 31, who had just arrived in New York to study computer engineering at a Brooklyn university, had been staying at the hotel when terrorists rammed two hijacked planes into the twin towers. But when Higazy returned to collect his belongings in December, federal authorities took him into custody as a material witness in the terrorist investigation after Ferry told Millennium officials and FBI agents that he had found the radio inside Higazy's safe on top of documents including a passport. Higazy was charged in December with lying to FBI agents when he denied owning a radio. chicagotribune.com