Video shows men detained as terror suspects paid Florida toll after all
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Posted 6:54PM on Friday, September 20, 2002
NAPLES, FLORIDA - A videotape shows that three men who were detained as suspected terrorists last week paid a highway toll shortly before they were stopped by a sheriff's deputy. <br>
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An Alligator Alley tollbooth attendant first told authorities that one driver -- Kambiz Butt -- ran the gate but changed her account after seeing the video. <br>
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Collier County Sheriff Don Hunter saya he voided the $126 citation after a security video showed the drivers of the two vehicles stopping to pay the toll. <br>
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Hunter says the tollkeeper was nervous about spotting the car mentioned in a police bulletin about a suspected terrorism plot, and she is shown in the video trying to flag down someone to alert them to the car. <br>
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The threat turned out to be a false alarm.