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January 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 02/02/2010 8:33 AM Page 6 6 Xmas UFO Sighting Questionable Huge UFO seen from the "It's a four-wheel-drive. It worked great. Hurley also asked the judge to instruct rear on Christmas night, I love that truck," Leigh said. "What did you McLennan County jail officials to provide expect me to do, use my head?" Leigh access to pain medications for his ailing 12/25/2009 The disgruntled vet apparently left his back. Denton apartment about 1:30 a.m. Sunday to Waco police negotiator Patrick Swanton Continued from Page 5 begin the drive to Waco, authorities said. His said Leigh complained of back pain during the girlfriend called Denton police after finding standoff, asking to stop talks with police about for the Navy Office of Information in the three notes with suicidal overtones taped to the 11:45 a.m. so he could search the building for a Pentagon in Washington, D.C. front door of the apartment she shared with wheelchair to sit in. Leigh later warned police In fact, in six months in the Navy, one Leigh, officials said. not to be alarmed as he was walking back to his could accomplish "pretty little," Pittman said. Special Agent James Gunnels of the Jeep, claiming he was only fetching his walking Neither VA nor Naval officials could Federal Protective Service, the agency cane. confirm Monday what Leigh's rank, specialty or responsible for the security of federal facilities, Leigh wore an orange jail jumpsuit, was assignment was in the Navy. said the notes contained "heavily veiled" threats shackled with handcuffs and leg chains and had However, DuCharme said Leigh's against the VA. However, he said the notes were an olive-drab blanket wrapped around his assertion that the VA has lost his claim for not specific enough to give police advance shoulders as he shuffled to the courtroom benefits is not true. "It's present and accounted warning that the Waco Veterans Affairs Monday. for," he said. Regional Office was Leigh's intended target. Leigh's brother, Charles Brown, Officials have not discussed details Gunnels said Leigh had never been attended the magistrate's hearing but declined about Leigh's complaints against the VA, but identified as a security threat before Sunday's comment about his brother. U.S. Attorney Bill Johnston said more standoff. Leigh, who is expected to be indicted information will come out Thursday during a "We handle threats to the VA on a today by a federal grand jury, faces a maximum scheduled hearing. weekly basis, but we never had threats from this five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 A federal agent close to the case said guy before. We had never heard of this guy," if convicted. Leigh appears to have "a very active Gunnels said. Gunnels said it would be "business as imagination." Armed with a .45-caliber Colt revolver, usual" at the veterans building today. The Tribune-Herald staff writers Brian a 30-30-caliber Winchester rifle and a large facility was to reopen this morning, though the Anderson, Jodi Wetuski and Tommy black backpack he claimed contained military building's west pentrance that was damaged by Witherspoon contributed to this story. C-4 plastic explosives, Leigh told police Leigh's Jeep is not expected to be repaired for negotiators he wanted money and government several days. JUDGE ORDERS LEIGH action to aid veterans. HELD WITHOUT BOND According to an affidavit filed in the D Magazine case by Special Agent Jeff Brzozowski of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Subject: The Truth about By BRIAN ANDERSON and Leigh demanded $750,000 from the United Viet Nam Vets TOMMY WITHERSPOON, States and said he would blow up the building if June 1988 his demands were not met. Tribune-Herald staff writers Twenty-one state, local and federal law March 10, 1998 enforcement agencies surrounded the veterans The entire article can be read at building in the hours that followed, evacuating http://www.pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies15 homes and businesses within a six-block radius. .htm Copyright 1998 by the Waco Tribune-Herald. Nearby church services were canceled, May not be reproduced in any fashion without and freight trains that travel through downtown “Burkett's expertise in Vietnam-era military crediting the Waco Tribune- Herald newspaper. near the building were stopped for the duration records has often embarrassed the news media. of the standoff. In March of this year, when self-styled A Navy veteran who said he crashed his Following his peaceful surrender about "Vietnam vet" and "Navy SEAL" Jason Leigh truck into the Veterans Affairs Regional Office 8:45 p.m., bomb technicians X-rayed the black seized a VA building in Waco in a 14-hour Sunday because he was frustrated by federal backpack to find only a harmless purple smoke stand-off with police, national network news bureaucracy was ordered held without bond bomb similar to those sold at fireworks stands, reporters were quick to identify him as a Monday. officials said. Vietnam veteran and Navy SEAL. Like so U.S. Magistrate Dennis Green granted a Leigh reportedly detonated an identical many times before, Burkett quickly proved request from federal prosecutors and ordered smoke bomb inside the building shortly after Leigh was a phony; he had been released from Jason Leigh, 49, jailed at least until after a nightfall Sunday, lighting the fuse with a the military after only five months and had detention hearing in Green's court on Thursday. cigarette, officials said. It was not clear why never served in Vietnam. But to Burkett he was Local and federal officials said Leigh, Leigh chose to ignite the smoke bomb, but no only one more in a long string of those who who is charged with carrying a firearm in a damage was reported as a result of the device. would like us to believe their problems began in federal facility during the commission of a ATF Special Agent Michael Reyes said a Vietnam.” crime, was trying to focus media attention on bomb squad robot and dogs trained to sniff out his problems with veterans officials and on the explosives were sent back into the building Whether it is the reporting of UFOs, plight of homeless veterans nationwide. early Monday, but no other explosives were Ghosts, Alien Abductions, Bigfoot, Nessie, the Leigh, a Corsicana native with a Denton found. The facility was officially declared safe Mothman, Hauntings, Demonic Possession, address and family in Cleburne, appeared intent about noon. they are all judged by the credility of the person on continuing that message Monday morning as "We can't have people coming into or persons making the claim. federal authorities led him into court. Waco, Texas, and threatening to blow up a "SOS. Save our soldiers," Leigh said as building just to make a point," Assistant U.S. In the case of Jason Greywolf Leighs he was being led past a host of television Attorney Bill Johnston said following Leigh's sole sighting on Christmas, December 25, 2009 cameras. "There is no reason why millions of hearing on Monday. "That kind of behavior - based on the research and the newspaper American soldiers should be living in the won't be tolerated." clippings included in this articles, there is no streets." Judge Green appointed Waco attorney credibility whatsoever.[] Leigh began a 14-hour standoff with Jack Hurley to represent Leigh, and Hurley police about 6:45 a.m. Sunday, using a cellular asked immediately to have access to Leigh's VA telephone to call police after he backed his 1984 records. Hurley said he would not speculate on Jeep Cherokee through a sliding glass door of Leigh's competency to stand trial until after the new VA building at 701 Clay Ave. reviewing his medical records.