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Local
Companies | Article published October 4, 2002
Terrorism ruled out in nuke plant
incident
By STEVE MURPHY
BLADE STAFF
WRITER
OAK HARBOR, Ohio - Authorities have ruled out
terrorism in the arrest of a Davis-Besse job applicant who tried to
take a loaded handgun onto the grounds of the nuclear power
plant.
Horace Makodym, 54, an Argentine citizen who lives in
Parma, Ohio, told officers he didn’t know it was illegal to carry a
concealed weapon, Ottawa County Sheriff Craig Emahiser said
yesterday.
"We’re pretty satisfied with his story," Sheriff
Emahiser said. "The FBI spent a substantial amount of time with this
gentleman, and when they left here, the indication was that they
were satisfied he had no ties to any terrorist organizations or any
terrorist inclinations."
Mr. Makodym was arrested Wednesday
afternoon outside the nuclear plant after Davis-Besse security
officers did a routine search of his van. He is charged with
carrying a concealed weapon and improper transportation of a weapon,
both first-degree misdemeanors that carry a maximum penalty of six
months in jail. He remained in the Ottawa County jail yesterday on
$8,000 bond.
Sheriff Emahiser said Mr. Makodym arrived at the
plant about 12:30 p.m. for a scheduled interview for a security
guard’s position. Mr. Makodym is an unemployed security guard who
has worked in the Cleveland area.
When the man called to
schedule his interview, "he was told at that time he was going to
need a picture ID to get in, and the fact that his vehicle would be
searched," Sheriff Emahiser said. "And knowing all that, he still
carried a concealed weapon under the seat of his car."
After
the gun was found, plant security checked the van with a machine
that detected possible traces of explosives. A bomb-detection dog
from the University of Toledo also detected possible explosives but
none was found in a later search by a Toledo police bomb
squad.
Sheriff Emahiser said the traces might have come from
nitroglycerin pills found on Mr. Makodym.
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