Second ex-nuclear plant worker charged in Woodridge carjacking

[bananas]

Source: Chigago Tribune

A second ex-nuclear plant technician has been arrested for his alleged role in a 2012 carjacking in Woodridge, DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin said.

Bail was set today at $1 million for Landon Brittain, who is charged with vehicular hijacking, aggravated vehicular hijacking and obstruction of justice. He was being held in the DuPage County Jail.

A grand jury recently had indicted Brittain, a former employee of the Dresden power plant in Morris, though the indictment remained impounded as officials ascertained his location, Berlin said. Brittain was recently apprehended in Venezuela and flown to New York where he was held by U.S. Marshalls before his extradition to Illinois, Berlin said.

Brittain is charged with aiding and abetting Michael Buhrman, who is a fugitive following his trial and sentencing in absentia for the May 2012 carjacking.

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[JimDandy]

1. Apprehended in Venezuela? Isn't Snowden seeking

asylum there?

[cate94]

2. A carjacking in Woodridge?

What a bizarre crime. Honestly, if I had seen it with my own eyes I would have thought it was a joke or a prank.

[BlueToTheBone]

3. What does it have to do with being "ex-nuclear plant workers" have

to do with the story?

[bananas]

4. They weren't "ex" when they committed the crime.

They were fired afterwards.

Here's a story from last year, it doesn't mention the two-way radio or the accomplice:

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120511/news/705119671/

Article posted: 5/11/2012 5:36 PM

Authorities: Nuclear engineer sought ‘thrill’ in DuPage hijacking

By Josh Stockinger

A man who operates reactors at a nuclear power plant was "thrill seeking" when he put on a mask and hijacked a woman's car at gunpoint, DuPage County authorities said Friday.

Michael Buhrman, a senior reactor operator at Dresden Nuclear Power Plant in Morris, was charged with aggravated vehicular hijacking.

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Authorities said Buhrman later confessed the hijacking was a "stupid thing" to do and that he was only "thrill seeking."

He was identified in court Friday as a nuclear engineer at Dresden, where he has been a licensed senior reactor operator for six years, according to his public LinkedIn profile. Before that, he studied nuclear engineering at Excelsior College in Albany, N.Y., and worked as a reactor operator and nuclear electronics technician for the U.S. Navy, the profile states.

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