Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Ferrari Case Continues to Widen

Cue creepy music! It's time for another exciting episode of The F-Files!

This is from The Los Angeles Times:

The investigation into a former Swedish video game executive whose rare Ferrari crashed in Malibu widened Monday as the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency confirmed it is investigating Stefan Eriksson.

Eriksson, 44, is expected to appear in court today or Wednesday after Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies arrested him over the weekend. They allege that his $3.5-million car collection--the red Ferrari Enzo, a black Enzo and a custom Mercedes — belonged to British financial institutions, not to him.

Sheriff's officials told The Times on Monday that in addition to the cars, detectives who searched his Bel-Air home seized several computers, a firearm and a substance believed to be cocaine. Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore said the substance is now being tested.

Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, declined to provide details about the inquiry. But one question that has emerged since the crash is how Eriksson was able to get the rare cars into the United States — especially if British financial institutions claimed ownership of them.

Kice said that the customs agency has placed an immigration hold on Eriksson so if he is released from the county's Men's Central Jail it will be able to take him into custody.

"He is potentially subject to deportation," she said.

The federal probe is just one of several into Eriksson and the crash.

So the feds are trying to figure out how Eriksson was able to get the rare cars into the United States? That's easy--the space aliens transported the cars, in their flying saucers, from Britain to the U.S. to use in their colonization plans. It seems the detectives also found a firearm in Eriksson's house--wonder if that firearm is a Glock, that is missing a magazine? And a strange substance believed to be cocaine? Did the detectives stick their fingers into the strange substance to taste it, and determine if it was cocaine? Hey, that is what the TV cops always seem to do, and they are always right in their finger-licking tests. Besides, the finger-licking test is a lot faster than having to do a chemical analysis in a laboratory.

The mystery deepens....Continue creepy music.

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