NEW JERSEY – A Saudi Arabian man was charged for transporting a stolen school bus across state lines, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced Monday.
Bader Alzahrani, 22, of Saudi Arabia was charged with one count of receipt of a stolen vehicle and one count of transportation of a stolen vehicle. He was scheduled to make his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward S. Kiel in Newark federal court, Sellinger said.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court, on Jan. 15, a break-in was reported in an unoccupied residential home in Livingston, New Jersey. During a search of a backpack in that home, law enforcement saw a Saudi Arabian passport with the name Bader Alzahrani, along with other items that appeared to belong to Alzahrani.
Then on Jan. 17, the Livingston Board of Education reported that a school bus was stolen from a parking lot across the street from the unoccupied residential home where the break-in was reported. Law enforcement officers located Alzahrani in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, and was later found to be in possession of the keys to the stolen school bus.
Each count charged in the complaint is punishable by a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
