On Aug 7, 12:51 am, Too_Many_Tools wrote:
Since we had discussed the Radioactive Boyscout before, I thought you
would find this of interest.

'Radioactive Boy Scout' Charged in Smoke Detector Theft
Saturday , August 04, 2007

DETROIT -

A man who became the subject of a book called "The Radioactive Boy
Scout" after trying to build a nuclear reactor in a shed as a teenager
has been charged with stealing 16 smoke detectors. Police say it was a
possible effort to experiment with radioactive materials.

David Hahn, 31, was being held Friday on a $5,000 bond in the Macomb
County Jail after he was arraigned Thursday on felony larceny charges.
Clinton Township police Capt. Richard Maierle said Hahn denied the
charges.

A district court clerk on Friday said Hahn did not have an attorney.
The Associated Press called the jail in an effort to speak to Hahn,
but a sheriff's spokesman said the jail does not give messages to
inmates. His preliminary examination was scheduled for Aug. 13.

Investigators say Hahn was arrested Wednesday after a maintenance
worker saw him stealing a detector from a ceiling in an apartment
complex where he lived. They later found the other detectors in his
apartment in the Detroit suburb of Clinton Township.

Police say that Hahn's face was covered with open sores, possibly from
constant exposure to radioactive materials.

Hahn learned that a small amount of a radioactive isotope could be
found in smoke detectors during his experiments in the 1990s,
according to a 1998 article in Harper's Magazine that later expanded
into a book by journalist Ken Silverstein.

Maierle said his department evacuated the apartment complex and called
the state police bomb squad, which found no hazardous materials.

He said officials learned in January that Hahn had returned to the
area after serving in the U.S. Navy.

"Because of his past, we were a tad bit concerned," he said, adding
his department alerted the FBI when they found out he was back in
Michigan. "We didn't want any other radioactive sites to pop up."

Hahn's first brush with authorities came in August 1994, after police
stopped him during an investigation into neighborhood tire thefts.
Officers found radioactive materials, chemicals, rocks, plastic and
glass bottles and two exploded pipes in his car, Maierle said.

In a subsequent interview with a state health official, Hahn said he
had been trying to produce energy and hoped it would help him earn his
Eagle Scout badge, according to the Harper's article. Hahn also
acknowledged having a backyard laboratory in a potting shed at his
mother's home in Oakland County's Commerce Township, the article said.

Authorities declared the structure a hazardous materials site and
sealed it. Crews from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency led a
Superfund cleanup in 2005 that included dismantling the shed and
shipping its remains to be buried at a low-level radioactive waste
site in Utah, the article said.

Hahn received a Scouting merit badge for atomic energy in 1991, the
article said.

Maierle said Hahn's 1994 arrest was expunged in 1996. His arrest this
week was reported by The Macomb Daily of Mount Clemens.

The link to the story....note his face.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292111,00.html