US Embassy employee involved in car crash is Secret Service agent

Miercuri, 12 decembrie 2007, 16:11 English | Top News

The US Embassy confirmed on Wednesday that its attaché, Kevin L. Sandlin, was involved in the traffic accident on Tuesday night in Bucharest. In a press release for Hotnews.ro, the Embassy confirms its cooperation with the Romanian Police in the investigation on the case. Asked by the Hotnews.ro reporters, the US Embassy officials said that Kevin Sandlin is a deputy attaché within the Embassy and he works as representative of the US Secret Service on fiscal frauds and cyber crime.


The release:


STATEMENT BY THE U.S. EMBASSY

The Embassy confirms that Mr. Kevin L. Sandlin, an attaché at the Embassy working for a U.S. law enforcement agency, was involved in a traffic accident the night of December 11.  
The Embassy deeply regrets that the accident took place and wishes the driver of the other vehicle a speedy recovery.  
The Embassy and Mr. Sandlin are cooperating with the Bucharest Traffic Police and other Romanian authorities in their ongoing investigation of the accident.