Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 22

Bin Laden Bounty Hunter Sentenced In ICE Case

Detroit—Following an ICE investigation, a Texas man who claimed to be a bounty hunter on the trail of Osama bin Laden was sentenced in U.S. District Court for illegally bringing various weapons and ammunition aboard an aircraft.

Matt Mihsen, 47, a Chandler, Texas, resident and a naturalized United States citizen from Syria, was sentenced to time served and one-year supervised release after pleading guilty to failure to report that he brought ammunition aboard an airplane.

Mihsen was arrested in February while attempting to depart Detroit International Airport to Amsterdam, Netherlands, with a connecting flight in Damascus, Syria. Before boarding his flight, ICE special agents and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers examined his possessions. The examination revealed various weapons and accessories, including radiation detectors, a bulletproof vest, 40 rounds of 9mm Black Talon ammunition, a taser, one rifle scope, one spray can of Mace and $13,256 in unreported currency.

Mihsen is a registered private investigator, pilot and truck driver. He told ICE agents he was conducting an independent investigation in hopes of collecting the $25 million reward offered by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security for information leading to the arrest of Osama bin Laden.

“This case shows the important public safety aspects of our aggressive outbound operations,” said Brian M. Moskowitz, special agent in charge of the ICE Detroit office. “Working with our partners at Customs and Border Protection, our joint efforts kept potentially dangerous items off a cross-Atlantic passenger plane, and they may have prevented acts of violence overseas.”

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