Hawaii
Saga of Hawaii ‘Spy’ Couple Pictured in KGB Garb Gets Even Weirder in Court
A Hawaii lady prosecutors say lived underneath an assumed id for many years—and should have ties to Russian intelligence—doubled down on the alleged charade throughout a detention listening to together with her husband on Tuesday.
Requested by U.S. Justice of the Peace Choose Rom Dealer to state her identify, Gwynn Darle Morrison replied, “They’re calling me Gwynn Darle Morrison.”
In 1987, Morrison, 67, and husband Walter Glenn Primrose, additionally 67, used the start certificates of two lifeless Texas infants to start a years-long masquerade as “Bobby Edward Fort” and “Julie Lyn Montague,” based on a felony criticism first reported final week by The Day by day Beast. In 1988, the feds say the couple—who had already wed as Walter Primrose and Gwynn Morrison—remarried one another “underneath their respective assumed identities,” the feds say.
Megan Kau, Morrison’s lawyer, informed Dealer, “My shopper maintains that her identify is Julie Lyn Montague, and [says] that’s the one factor that she’s ever passed by.”
Later within the listening to, Dealer requested Primrose to additionally state his identify— however acquired a really completely different response.
“Walter Glenn Primrose,” he mentioned.
Assistant U.S. Legal professional Thomas Muehleck informed Dealer he was flummoxed by Morrison’s conduct.
“Your honor, it’s just a little unusual right here that the defendant maintains… she is Julie Lyn Montague,” Muehleck mentioned. “You understand, her sister was interviewed by the FBI and was proven an image of the Julie Lyn Montague Hawaii driver’s license with the defendant’s {photograph} on there, and mentioned, ‘That seems to be Gwynn, however the date of start is improper.’”
Morrison and Primrose, who’re detained in a federal lockup, appeared individually by cellphone, attributable to COVID protocols. Each entered not responsible pleas.
In 1994, Primrose joined the Coast Guard as Bobby Fort, who would have been 27 on the time. Primrose was truly 39 years-old—eight years over the cutoff age for brand new recruits.
Primrose was finally granted a secret-level safety clearance, and retired from the Coast Guard as an avionics technician in 2016 after a 20-year hitch. He then went on to work as a cleared protection contractor at Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Level close to Honolulu. His clearance was nonetheless lively when he and Morrison have been arrested on July 22, based on courtroom filings.
Morrison as soon as lived in Romania throughout the Soviet period, based on prosecutors, who haven’t but been capable of clarify what she was allegedly doing there. When federal brokers searched the pair’s dwelling in Oahu, they found paperwork written in code, maps of army bases, and an invisible ink equipment, the feds say. And when the couple have been briefly left alone, however didn’t know their dialog was being recorded, they allegedly referenced “issues per espionage.”
“Federal brokers have… seized pictures from the defendants’ residence that depict the defendants apparently some years in the past sporting what have been recognized as KGB uniforms,” prosecutors mentioned in a detention memo filed July 25. And in a courtroom look final week, prosecutors mentioned investigators had discovered from associates of Primrose and Morrison that the 2 “had a longstanding curiosity in espionage and expressed anti-government and anti-military sentiments.”
The 2 left their dwelling in Texas within the Nineteen Eighties “all of the sudden,” and informed household they have been coming into the witness safety program, based on assistant U.S. Legal professional Wayne Myers.
On Tuesday, Morrison’s lawyer, Megan Kau, known as the federal government’s proof “obscure,” and disputed that the photographs have been in any method incriminating.
Kau mentioned the “alleged {photograph}” of Morrison “sporting an alleged KGB uniform,” had been taken “a while in the past… in someone else’s dwelling.” Primrose was additionally seen in KGB garb, which Kau claimed was the identical outfit that Morrison was sporting.
“They’re sporting T-shirts,” Kau informed Dealer. “My shopper, a minimum of, appears to be like like she’s sporting a T-shirt beneath [the] jacket.”
Kau requested for Morrison’s launch, arguing that prosecutors haven’t offered sufficient materials through the invention course of for her to adequately debrief her shopper about her previous, together with any aliases she could have used.
However Muehleck pushed again, arguing to maintain Morrison and Primrose detained.
“We have now a state of affairs right here the place this defendant and her co-defendant, after all, have used false identities to deceive Social Safety, the Division of Protection, the Hawaii Division of Transportation, [and] the State Division’s Nationwide Passport Middle, for 30 years,” he mentioned. “And there’s no verification of who she says she is.”
Muehleck emphasised the thriller of the KGB uniform pictures, famous that Morrison has “traveled overseas,” and joined Primrose on unreported journeys to Canada whereas he was within the Coast Guard.
“It is a state of affairs the place it’s a basic case to detain for flight danger,” he argued.
To this, Dealer mentioned, “At this level, I can’t even actually say that I’ve confidence as to who Ms. Morrison, or Montague, actually, really is. It actually begs the query as as to if or not she will be trusted to adjust to any phrases and situations that the courtroom units.”
He ordered Morrison and Primrose each detained pending trial. Jury choice is ready to start Sept. 26.
The 2 are charged with conspiracy to commit an offense towards the US; making false statements on a passport utility; and aggravated id theft.
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Hawaii
Woman found dead in Kaneohe Bay military housing, Marine husband detained
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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – A marine is detained in the brig after his wife was found dead in military housing at Kaneohe Bay over the weekend.
Sources say the woman’s body was found early Sunday morning.
Neither her or her husband have been identified.
Circumstances of her death are under investigation.
The brig, the Marines detainment facility, is located on Ford Island.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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Hawaii
Disagreement between neighbors in Hawaii prompts shooting that leaves 4 dead, 2 injured
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Honolulu police were dispatched at 11:15 p.m. Saturday to a residence in Waianae after receiving multiple 911 calls about a neighbor using the front-end loader to “ram multiple cars into the home.”
A dispute Saturday night between neighbors in Hawaii escalated to a shooting that left four people dead after one man attempted to use a front-end loader to push multiple cars into a home, according to police.
The 58-year-old man driving the front-end loader, a massive construction vehicle used to scoop and haul materials, is suspected of killing three women before another man shot and killed him, Honolulu police said Sunday in a news release. Two other people were also shot and critically wounded.
Police took a 42-year-old man into custody at the scene and charged him with second-degree murder in the death of the other gunman, according to a statement.
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Honolulu shooting leaves 4 dead, 2 injured
Honolulu officers were dispatched at 11:15 p.m. Saturday to a residence in Waianae after receiving multiple 911 calls about a neighbor using the front-end loader to “ram multiple cars into the home,” police said.
Before police arrived, the suspect operating the heavy machinery opened fire on several people in the carport who attempted to flee, police said.
Among those killed in the gunfire were three women, ages 29, 34 and 36.
A 31-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman were transported to a nearby hospital to receive treatment for life-threatening injuries sustained in the shooting, police said. It was not immediately clear whether they were expected to survive.
During the confrontation, a man who lived at the home fatally shot the suspect with a handgun, police said.
Investigators later discovered that the suspect had also been attempting to shoot at four 55-gallon drums being hauled in the front-end loader “containing an unknown fuel,” police said. The Honolulu Fire Department’s Hazmat team was eventually called in to safely remove the drums.
Police have not yet identified any of the victims or the two men who exchanged gunfire. USA TODAY left a message Monday morning for Honolulu police that was not immediately returned.
Honolulu police had responded to another dispute in 2023
Lt. Deena Thoemmes said at a Sunday news conference that in 2023, police responded to a previous incident involving a disagreement between the same neighbors, local outlets reported.
In a statement Monday to USA TODAY, Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi said the shooting is “a painful reminder of the violence that has impacted Waianae too often in recent weeks.”
Referencing four other “high-profile” shootings in the area in the past month, Blangiardi called on the city and county governments to take urgent action.
“I am deeply saddened and alarmed by the tragic shooting that occurred last night in Waianae,” Blangiardi said in his statement. “This incident, involving neighbors, has shaken our community to its core … it is crucial that we come together as a community to support one another and take meaningful steps to prevent these tragedies.”
Eric Lagatta covers breaking and trending news for USA TODAY. Reach him at elagatta@gannett.com
Hawaii
3 women killed, gunman dead in Hawaii after dispute between neighbors leads to gunfire
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Three people were killed and two others injured in a shooting at a home stemming from a dispute between neighbors on Saturday night in Hawaii, police said. The shooter was also fatally shot by a resident, who was arrested on a second-degree murder charge.
Witnesses reported that a 58-year-old man was using a front-end loader to ram cars into the home where a family gathering was taking place, then opened fire at people gathered in the carport, fatally shooting three women at the residence in Waianae, a community about 30 miles west of downtown Honolulu, Honolulu police detective Lt. Deena Thoemmes said at a news conference.
At some point, a 42-year-old man who lived in the home fatally shot the suspect with a handgun, she said at a news conference. A police spokesperson did not immediately respond to a telephone message or an email asking for details about why the resident was arrested.
The women who were killed were 34, 36 and 29, Thoemmes said. A 31-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman were taken to the hospital in critical condition, she said.
The suspect, who was not identified, had four 55-gallon drums containing an unknown fuel in the front-end loader, Thoemmes said. Witnesses reported that he fired rounds into them but police have not confirmed that yet, she said.
The shootings are the latest of several shootings in recent weeks in the area that have led to police to pledge to work to fight gun violence, Police Chief Joe Logan said at the news conference. But he said Saturday’s shootings were not related to the earlier ones. He suggested it would be difficult for police to prevent such a targeted act stemming from a dispute unless someone reached out earlier.
“There have been several incidents in the previous months and weeks, but this incident is not related to those. This incident happened as a result of neighbors. So I want to reassure the public that this is not a random act, but a targeted one,” Logan said.
Prior to this incident, there had been three shootings in Waianae in a span of about a week, HawaiiNewsNow reported.
Logan previously said there would be an increased law enforcement presence in the area, the station reported.
“The Honolulu Police Department is increasing, providing more resources in the areas of patrol and plain clothes,” Logan said. “We’ll be working with our federal partners, to saturate the area and to patrol the area in greater numbers.”
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