Hoping to live off the grid in Afghanistan or Dubai, an Irvine apartment security guard fearful of a U.S. “political meltdown” used the Darknet, a secretive overlay network built on top of the Internet, to purchase a machine gun.
But, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) complaint filed this month inside Orange County’s Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse, Hamid Kabir unwittingly contacted an undercover law enforcement agent posing as an arms dealer.
Kabir and Rohina Sadiqui now face federal charges involving conspiracy to illegally possess a machine gun.
The DHS complaint states that Kabir, who works at the Irvine Company’s Turtle Ridge apartment complex, wrote an encrypted email on Dec. 20 seeking a “Carbine, 5.56mm M4 . . . the same one used by special forces.”
Days later on the eve of Christmas he amended the order, seeking a fully-automated M4, five magazines of ammunition, a silencer and night-vision goggles for $6,000, according to DHS.
On Feb. 6, undercover officers followed Kabir’s instructions to leave the equipment in the trunk of vehicle at an Irvine shopping center parking lot.
Officers arrested him and Sadiqui when they arrived.
A Feb. 28 arraignment hearing is scheduled.
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.
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