Car buyer mistaken as terrorist

Mike Wagner
ajc.com
July 17, 2012

Sandra Cortez went to buy a new car on her lunch break, and about an hour later, the Denver dealership staff was threatening to call the FBI to haul her away as a suspected terrorist.

The dealership’s routine check of Cortez’s credit report turned up something unusual on that day in 2005. It was an alert indicating that the woman was on a government list of suspected terrorists, international drug traffickers and others associated with weapons of mass destruction.

Cortez, now 68, was really just an accountant who wanted a new silver Subaru to better navigate the mountain roads she traveled to reach her favorite hiking trails.

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This article was posted: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 1:45 pm

Tags: domestic news, financial, terrorism

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