Hansen Helicopters attorneys ask to throw out warrants, evidence in helicopter fraud case
Defense attorneys representing a Hansen Helicopters executive and a company employee in their federal criminal case have asked the court to throw out three search warrants and any evidence gathered from those warrants.
“The judges who issued the search warrants were misled into concluding that probable case for the issuance of the search warrants existed,” the attorneys stated in a motion to suppress evidence, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court of Guam.
Hansen Helicopters owner John D. Walker and Phillip Kapp, the company’s director of maintenance, are among four men indicted last year. They're accused of fraud and falsifying documents.
The company, which provides regional aviation services to the fishing industry and others, is based on Guam, with offices off Route 16 in Harmon. It has operated on Guam since 1985.
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