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Feds interview California filmmaker, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, linked to anti-Islam movie: LA Sheriff
The 55-year-old was interviewed but not arrested or detained, according to authorities. Nakoula has previously been convicted of financial crimes.
LOS ANGELES A Southern California filmmaker linked to an anti-Islamic movie inflaming protests across the Middle East was interviewed and released Saturday by federal probation officers at a Los Angeles sheriff's station, authorities said.
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was interviewed for about half an hour at the station shortly after 12 a.m. in his hometown of Cerritos, Calif., said Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Los Angeles County sheriff's department.
'DEATH TO AMERICA!' PROTESTS OVER ANTI-ISLAM FILM SPREAD THROUGHOUT MUSLIM WORLD
After that, deputies dropped Nakoula off at an undisclosed location. Walker said Nakoula traveled voluntarily in a squad car with deputies.
"He is gone. We don't know where he went," Whitmore said. "He said he is not going back to his home."
Federal officials are investigating whether Nakoula, who has been convicted of financial crimes, has violated the terms of his five-year probation. If so, a judge could send him back to prison.
Nakoula went voluntarily to the station, wearing a coat, hat, scarf and glasses that concealed his appearance. His home has been besieged by media for several days.
Whitmore said Nakoula was not handcuffed and the heavy apparel was his idea.
The probation department is reviewing the case of Nakoula, who pleaded no contest to bank fraud charges in 2010 and was banned from using computers or the Internet or using false identities as part of his sentence.
Federal authorities have identified Nakoula, a self-described Coptic Christian, as the key figure behind "Innocence of Muslims," a film denigrating Islam and the Prophet Muhammad that ignited mob violence against U.S. embassies across the Middle East.
Much of the film was shot inside the offices of Media for Christ, a nonprofit based in the Los Angeles-area city of Duarte. The charity raised more than $1 million last year "to glow Jesus' light" to the world.
Read more: Feds interview California filmmaker, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, linked to anti-Islam movie: LA Sheriff* - NY Daily News
The 55-year-old was interviewed but not arrested or detained, according to authorities. Nakoula has previously been convicted of financial crimes.
LOS ANGELES A Southern California filmmaker linked to an anti-Islamic movie inflaming protests across the Middle East was interviewed and released Saturday by federal probation officers at a Los Angeles sheriff's station, authorities said.
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was interviewed for about half an hour at the station shortly after 12 a.m. in his hometown of Cerritos, Calif., said Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Los Angeles County sheriff's department.
'DEATH TO AMERICA!' PROTESTS OVER ANTI-ISLAM FILM SPREAD THROUGHOUT MUSLIM WORLD
After that, deputies dropped Nakoula off at an undisclosed location. Walker said Nakoula traveled voluntarily in a squad car with deputies.
"He is gone. We don't know where he went," Whitmore said. "He said he is not going back to his home."
Federal officials are investigating whether Nakoula, who has been convicted of financial crimes, has violated the terms of his five-year probation. If so, a judge could send him back to prison.
Nakoula went voluntarily to the station, wearing a coat, hat, scarf and glasses that concealed his appearance. His home has been besieged by media for several days.
Whitmore said Nakoula was not handcuffed and the heavy apparel was his idea.
The probation department is reviewing the case of Nakoula, who pleaded no contest to bank fraud charges in 2010 and was banned from using computers or the Internet or using false identities as part of his sentence.
Federal authorities have identified Nakoula, a self-described Coptic Christian, as the key figure behind "Innocence of Muslims," a film denigrating Islam and the Prophet Muhammad that ignited mob violence against U.S. embassies across the Middle East.
Much of the film was shot inside the offices of Media for Christ, a nonprofit based in the Los Angeles-area city of Duarte. The charity raised more than $1 million last year "to glow Jesus' light" to the world.
Read more: Feds interview California filmmaker, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, linked to anti-Islam movie: LA Sheriff* - NY Daily News
