Local News in Brief : Bail Denied in Bomb Case
Calling Israel a “safe haven” to which Rochelle Manning might flee to evade trial in the United States, a federal judge in Los Angeles denied bail Tuesday for the woman accused of helping prepare a mail bomb that killed a Manhattan Beach secretary in 1980.
Manning claims dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship and was carrying an Israeli passport when she stepped off a flight from Israel at Los Angeles International Airport two weeks ago and was arrested.
Federal authorities said they have linked both Manning and her husband, Robert Manning, to the 1980 bombing through fingerprints. Robert Manning, who is in Israel, is a suspect in a series of terrorist attacks on suspected Nazis and the murder of Arab-American activist Alex Odeh in Orange County in a bomb blast three years ago.
U.S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. said in court that Israel only rarely extradites its citizens to face criminal charges in the United States. He suggested that Israel might deny extradition, should Rochelle Manning flee there, based on political considerations.
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