Police1 -- Local and Federal authorities combed the Four Corners area, where Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado meet, for two men of Middle East descent that possibly assaulted a worker at an oil refinery.
According to the San Juan County, Utah Sheriff’s Office, the two men approached the worker at the oil refinery near Aneth, Utah Wednesday night. The worker claimed the men asked him several questions about the operation of the facility before assaulting him and fleeing the scene. However, the two men were stopped in Utah today and sources indicate that the men were released and that the worker had fabricated the story.
In another incident, a phone call was made (from a cell phone) to the San Juan, N.M. power generating facility operator Thursday asking what type of facility it was, what powered it, how long it had been there, and several other like questions. After the phone conversation with the suspicious questions the operator called local 911 to have a sheriff’s deputy respond to the call. The call was then tracked to an Exxon gas station in Montezuma that supposedly does not exist.
Police1 notes that if you have power plants, refineries or other facilities that have been identified as terrorist targets in your area, notify operators about the possibility that they may get phone calls with questions on the operation of the facility and the resources it supplies. They should also be on the lookout for callers with foreign or middle eastern sounding accents and anyone under the pretext of being a college student “doing research.”