• Font Size    

Campaign 08

Presidential Inauguration 2009
E-mail

Close Window E-mail This Page

Feds Try Blocking Evidence Release In Posada Case

Required fields are marked with an asterisk(*)

The information you provide will be used only to send the requested e-mail and will not be used to send any other e-mail communications. Read more in our Privacy Policy

Send E-mail

   Print     Share +   
Jun 12, 2009 10:18 pm US/Eastern

Feds Try Blocking Evidence Release In Posada Case

EL PASO, Tx (CBS4) ― Prosecutors do not want evidence to be released to the public in the case of Cuban militant and former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles, who is accused of lying to the U.S. for his involvement in bombings that left victims dead.

Prosecutors in El Paso have asked a judge to block the potential public release of "sensitive" evidence in a perjury case of the 81-year-old former U.S. Army soldier and anti-Castro activist.

He's accused of lying to U.S. authorities about his involvement in a series of 1997 bombings in Havana that killed an Italian tourist. Posada is also charged with lying to immigration authorities about how he sneaked into the U.S. from Mexico in 2005.

He's denied wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty.

Posada is wanted in Cuba and Venezuela on charges that he plotted the deadly 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner.

In April he was indicted on 11 counts, including perjury and obstruction of a federal proceeding. He had previously been indicted on six counts, including immigration fraud and lying to federal authorities in a bid to become a naturalized U.S. citizen

A message left for Posada's lawyer in El Paso, Felipe D.J. Millan, wasn't immediately returned. He faces trial in February and is living with his family in Miami in the meantime.


(© 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

The CBS4 I-Team's Most Popular Investigations

You need the latest Flash player to view video content.
Click here to download.

Click here to bypass this detection if you already have the latest Flash Player.

Cuba

Top News Stories

© MMIX, CBS Television Stations Inc. All Rights Reserved.