by dqueue » Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:00 am
Remember the story that broke regarding the <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=15033">Ferrari Enzo crash</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> in California? It involved Stefan Eriksson, "a Bel-Air resident who reportedly was convicted of racketeering and counterfeiting in his native Sweden 12 years ago."<br><br>Anyhow, <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_03/008335.php">Kevin Drum</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> reports some recent news around this story. He cites this <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-030206ferrari_lat,0,1020964.story?coll=la-home-headlines">LA Times story</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->, which reports (in part):<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Sheriff's investigators are trying to find two men claiming to be "homeland security" officers from a small San Gabriel Valley transit authority who showed up at the site of the crash last week of the $1-million Ferrari Enzo.<br><br>...<br>Eriksson survived the crash of the Ferrari, which was traveling at more than 160 mph, investigators said. When emergency workers arrived at the scene, Eriksson produced a card identifying him as "deputy commissioner" of the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority police department's antiterrorism unit, according to the Sheriff's Department.<br><br>A few minutes later, two unidentified men arrived at the crash site on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu and flashed cards and said they were from "homeland security," according to a Sheriff's Department report.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Odd. <p></p><i></i>