He strolled into the police station in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on January 4 wearing a Harvard sweatshirt, a "Wounded Warrior" cap and military dog tags dangling from his neck. He said he was Jeremiah Asimov-Beckingham, a veteran of Afghanistan, wounded in combat, now working as an executive for an airline. He had come to the station to pick up his car. His new BMW had been impounded, he believed, as evidence in a random crime. But it was a ploy. The police were hoping to lure a man suspected of forging cheques in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to steal $US70,000 and the BMW, which they had tracked to a Manhattan garage. They put Mr Asimov-Beckingham in handcuffs and charged him with...
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