Nearly three hours of deliberations on Tuesday failed to produce a verdict in the federal explosives trial of Youssef Megahed. ...more

April 1, 2009

Nearly three hours of deliberations today failed to produce a verdict in the federal explosives trial of Youssef Megahed. ...more

March 31, 2009

Jury deliberations are expected to begin today in the federal explosives trial of former University of South Florida student Youssef Megahed. ...more

March 31, 2009

Jury deliberations are expected to begin Tuesday in the federal explosives trial of former University of South Florida student Youssef Megahed. ...more

March 30, 2009

Trying to show that the devices at the center of a federal explosives trial were dangerous, prosecutors today presented an expert witness who testified they could easily be assembled into an incendiary device. ...more

March 24, 2009

Plastic pipes in the trunk of a car pulled over in South Carolina in 2007 contained a "low-explosive" mixture of sugar and potassium nitrate, an FBI expert testified this morning in the federal trial of a former University of South Florida student. ...more

March 23, 2009

Ahmed Mohamed came to the United States to gather "information about explosives and acquiring components in this country to construct explosives to cause harm within this country," a federal prosecutor asserts in a newly filed court document. Mohamed, an Egyptian student in the United States to attend the University of South Florida, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to providing material support to terrorists by making and posting on the Web site You Tube a video in which he shows how to use a remote-controlled device to detonate a bomb. ...more

November 5, 2008

An FBI report supports claims by two Egyptian students that the devices they had in the trunk of their car in August were fireworks and not explosives, a defense attorney argues in a new court filing. ...more

January 31, 2008

TAMPA – An FBI report supports claims by two Egyptian students that the devices they had in the trunk of their car last August were fireworks and not explosives, a defense attorney argues in a new court filing. ...more

January 30, 2008

Local lawyer John Fitzgibbons on Monday asked a judge to be removed from the case of Ahmed Mohamed, one of two University of South Florida students accused of transporting explosives. ...more

January 8, 2008