“A man charged with carrying fake identification on a Virginia road near the Pentagon is being held on a judge’s order because of the uncertainty of his identity and the fear that he might run,” The Las Vegas Sun reports.

“‘There is a substantial risk of the defendant’s flight,’ U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa Buchanan said Wednesday.

“Court papers identified him as ‘Imad Abdel-Fattah Hamed, aka Imad Nimer,’ but prosecutor John Morton said: ‘We are busily engaged in determining what Mr. Hamed’s true identification and true nationality is.'”

A criminal complaint filed by the FBI revealed that Hamed was interviewed previously by the agency, on Oct. 22. An FBI supervisor, Steve Berry, would not elaborate on the initial interview.

Just hours after the FBI issued a terrorist alert Monday night, Hamed and another man were detained by state and federal law enforcement officials as Hamed drove a tow truck on Route 110, which passes close by the Pentagon. The route was closed to commercial and other big vehicles after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, during which a hijacked airliner tore a hole in the side of the Pentagon, killing 189 people.

According to the FBI complaint, state police found a variety of driver’s licenses and other false government-issued documents. The men offered several explanations for why they were there and where they were going, the complaint said.

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