A 26-year-old Dearborn resident, Houssein Zorkot, was arraigned in 19th District Court Tuesday on several felony charges, including carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent.
Zorkot, a third-year medical student at Wayne State University, was allegedly armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and dressed in black clothing with camouflage paint covering his face when he was arrested Saturday in Hemlock Park.
According to police, Zorkot was observed attempting to leave the park in a black SUV after officers had received reports of a man carrying a rifle in the area. He was placed under arrest and is scheduled to undergo a preliminary examination at 9 a.m. Sept. 21 in 19th District Court.
Zorkot has also been charged with one count of possession of a loaded firearm in a motor vehicle and one count of felony firearm. He remains in custody on a $1 million bond.
Source – Press & Guide
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UPDATE: We have identified a number of websites apparently linked to Zorkot including a personal family site.
From an entry at one of the sites.
Houssein Zorkot – Hello, I’m here in the States studying to be a doctor. Lebanon is a beautiful country and I am proud to be Lebanese! I’m also an artist and kickboxer and like to read in my spare time.
It’s probably only a matter of time before traffic to the personal site knocks it offline. This screenshot will give you a fairly good idea of the layout.
UPDATE: From the Detroit News After his arrest, police sought a warrant at the man’s home, where they seized a laptop computer and several pictures. No other guns were found in the house.
The man also had visited Lebanon within the past month, police said.
Bond was set at the unusually high rate because it was unclear whether he was dangerous, Mayor John “Jack” O’Reilly said. The gun was purchased the night before in a nearby suburban community, O’Reilly said.
“The bond was set because of the nature of this,” O’Reilly said. “We can’t be sure he might not be a threat. We really don’t have enough information to know what his intent was. The indication is he better not be released right now until we know what he is up to.”
He was charged with one court of carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent, a five-year felony and a two-year felony firearm charge. He also was charged with possessing a loaded firearm in a vehicle, a two-year misdemeanor.
Dearborn police have called in the FBI to help with the case. FBI spokesperson Dawn Clenney confirmed they had been contacted about the case, but declined to discuss the issue any further.
“We are aware of the situation. It’s their situation,” Clenney said. “Beyond that it would be inappropriate to comment.”
A preliminary hearing is set for Oct. 21.
O’Reilly said although the man had recently visited Lebanon, he was cautious to indicate there was a larger terrorism issue brewing so close to the Sept. 11 anniversary.
“I really wanted not to let it become more of a bigger issue to be played out,” O’Reilly said. “The real story will come out when he is bound over.”
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In view of fact that medical doctors/personnel in U.K. are heavily over-represented in recent terrorist incidents, we presume that this creature is allied to them in spirit if not circumstance.
Lebanese, eh? Probably not Christian, Druse, or Jewish (on this High Holy Day). This ridiculous black-on-black routine may be an overwrought paranoid cliche, but Dumbo’s mugshot suggests he practices “poisoning pigeons in the park.” Life imitates art, as Dr. Demento might’ve said..
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Check out his website: http://www.zorkot.org/Houssein.html. He seems to be a Hizbullah type, standard slogans (“every day is Ashura, every land is Kerbala”), photos of shahids, Khomeini, Khamenei, Nasrallah, garish and gun-laden celebrations of resistance.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, and eats bugs like a duck, it’s probably a duck!
And this clown is a Jihadi-wannabe, for sure. Take a look at his websites – I’ll bet his very favorite midnight fantasy was Martyrdom.
If a 3- foot-tall purple paper-hanger from the South Pole kidnaps a member of my family, I sure as heck don’t want the Law wasting time, energy, personnel and tax-dollars looking for a 9-foot-tall green gardener from the Equator!
And any average six-year-old could gather that up.
So, profile ’em – and their overly-tender sensitivities be damned. If they don’t like it, they have the Right and Freedom to get the samhill out of America.
I thought he was strange but never dangerous. It’s a shock to know he has come to this, making national news, but it doesn’t surprise me the least bit. I think the problem may be psychiatric more than anything.
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Certainly appears to be a loner whack job.
Meet Houssein Zorkot, Hezbollah supporter from Dea…
Another case of endangering the public out in the open, in Dearborn, Michigan, no less. From Press & Guide:…
He looks like an angry but intelligent man. Perhaps he has some personality problems that need addressing before he can be free to walk the streets again. At least we do not need to spend taxpayer dollars to counsel him if he is socially challenged. Either his family or his supporters could finance his rehabilitation or he could return to his homeland and play out his fantasies there.
one thing about living in a state where almost everyone is armed and yes we do get our permits, is that you just dont hear about jihadists walking around with AKS in downtown Birmingham.
you know, Birmingham does have some crime but the criminals are really stupid there. Birmingham today is almost an all black city, and you guessed it, even grandma whos never commited a crime in her life has a gun.
Some guy recently walked into a barber shop there with a gun trying to stick up the place, and he got shot about 6 time by all the old men getting their hair cut.
we do have moslems in birmingham too, and most people are nice to them. but everybody keeps a close eye on em, call that profiling if you will but so be it. Either you came to America to raise your children in an environment free from war and Terror like the rest of us or our grandparents did, or you came here to make war and terror, pick your choice.
I hope i make sence here. all of the registered gun permits in Birmingham in general, and Alabama in particular help make this a safe place to live.
and people are so nice to each other here.
Segregation is gone forever, and we also have very little crime.
i couldnt believe it when i moved here but black and white people are actually friends now, they hunt together and stuff.
but their still very tough as nails southern they dont put up with Crime. nobody will, black or white.
if you go to someones house expecting to rob them here, its a very good possibility you wont walk out.