
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, March 11, 1991                   TAG: 9103110133
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NEWPORT NEWS                                LENGTH: Short

WAR SECURITY NETS ROBBERY SUSPECT

Airport security measures at a Hampton Roads airport imposed because of the Persian Gulf war helped capture a suspect in eight of the dozens of armed robberies that have alarmed the Baltimore area.

Tony Bedford, 19, was arrested Saturday at the Newport News-Williamsburg International Airport in Newport News after he tried to buy a one-way ticket to Philadelphia, police said Sunday.

Security requires anyone buying a one-way ticket provide a picture identification card. Arresting officer Rocky Downey of the airport police said Bedford, also known as Sadiyq Abdullah Muhammed, had none.

"He had $3,555 in fifties and hundreds in his briefcase with no job and no ID," said Downey.

by CNB