[ RadSafe ] Truck Driver Charged With Lying About Radioactive Cargo

[Clayton J Bradt]

This is insane!
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Truck Driver Charged With Lying About Radioactive Cargo


Milwaukee Journal Sentinel


By John Diedrich


August 23, 2007


GREEN BAY, WI — A Green Bay man has been charged with lying to federal
agents after he told investigators in January that someone stole a box off
his truck containing radioactive material bound for a Milwaukee hospital,
according to federal records.


Randall U. Kubsh, 53, is charged with two counts of lying, to the FBI and
U.S. Department of Transportation, according to an indictment handed down
this week. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison, but it’s
unlikely he will get that much time. In January, the Milwaukee County
sheriff’s office reported that a box of radioactive material bound for a
hospital was missing. Authorities were concerned because the material could
cause burning or poisoning if ingested.


Authorities launched a criminal investigation and began a search for the
box between Milwaukee and Madison, where Kubsh drove, Assistant U.S.
Attorney Mel Johnson, the prosecutor in the case, said Thursday. The box
appeared a few days later when a Waukesha man who found it near N. 46th St.
and W. Lisbon Ave. turned it in, Johnson said. That man is not being
charged, he said. Kubsh later told investigators he got lost on his way to
Aurora Sinai Medical Center because of construction, Johnson said. Kubsh
said he knew the box had fallen off his truck but he couldn’t find it when
he went back to look for it.
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Clayton J. Bradt
Assistant Bureau Director
BERP
NYS Dept. of Health
518-402-7578
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