Security Officials - Officials Reuters - Not Terrorism - In Was Prank

By Jim Forsyth

SAN ANTONIO Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:51pm EDT

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Officials in San Antonio state personal trainer Moroccan men arrested during a courthouse break-in early on Wednesday were pranksters which were being very likely intoxicated.

"There is absolutely no cause when you consider this can be a terrorist incident," Bexar County Sheriff Amadeo Ortiz told reporters Wednesday afternoon.

Three from the adult males were being arrested when they stepped available with the 120-year-old Bexar County Courthouse quick Wednesday, and two some others ended up imprisoned within a recreational vehicle parked outdoors the courthouse.

At this time, officials claimed shots of "infrastructure" determined within the RV raised concerns.

The men, most of in their twenties, face felony burglary charges, said Cliff Herberg, associate district attorney regarding Bexar County.

All personal training were born with Morocco, have France, and also got here inside United States continue month on a flight out of London to New York, officers said. Ortiz said some people usually are on a still-valid 90-day traveller mastercard and obviously rented the particular RV in New York.

"I don't realize what exactly their own causes were, but these people followed the following and so they were being partying with several night clubs just before returning into the Courthouse," Ortiz said, adding which several beer containers had been present in the particular RV.

"There will be very little sign them to used to accomplish virtually any harm towards courtroom, they've recently been supportive using us, and there isn't any purpose to believe that had been terroristic activity of any description."

Ortiz said no weaponry had been observed in their possession. He reported that will the particular five tend to be "pranksters, not really terrorists," plus joked that whenever "their parents spotted them, they might certainly not often be pleased."

Surveillance video clip indicates among the males walking straight down some sort of courthouse hallway wearing your huge, Mexican-style sombrero, while one more person sometimes appears participating in using a judge's gavel.

The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, as well as Department involving Homeland Security authorities will be still involved in this investigation, Herberg said.

Ortiz recognized that the case bought a many scrutiny for the reason that adult males are their own by using Arabic names.

"If this have been many youngsters these in your area that pennyless into your courthouse as your prank, subsequently may well are actually dealt with differently," he or she said.

(Editing by way of Corrie MacLaggan as well as Jerry Norton )