SEC: Bomb Detector—Bought by Military—Was Front for Scam
Last year, while working at The Dallas Morning News, a colleague and I wrote a story about a purported explosives detection device called Sniffex. According to the company, Sniffex could detect explosives up to a football field away by reading the "interference between the magnetic field of the earth, the explosive, the device itself and the human body."
Critics called it a sham. Yet one unit in the U.S. military bought the device -- eight for about $6,000 each -- even though the military’s own tests (PDF) said the Sniffex … more…
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Michael Grabell covers transportation for ProPublica. He was a reporter for The Dallas Morning News from 2003 until mid-2008, covering police, state and federal courts and aviation safety and security. His investigative work has included stories on the TSA, penny stocks, the Lance Armstrong doping allegations, chemicals stored near schools and neighborhoods, and a bus fire that killed 23 nursing home patients fleeing Hurricane Rita. He was a 2007 finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists.
