Online court records show Knafelc pleaded guilty in 2010 in Pennsylvania to charges of theft, driving under the influence, child endangerment and drivingwithout a license.
He was back in a Toulouse court February 24 for causing an accident with injuries and drivingwithout a license and was sentenced to a month in jail, his lawyer Christian Etelin said on BFM-TV.
Mohammed Atta discovered this abruptly in April 2001 five months before he drove the first plane into the north tower of the World Trade Center when he was pulled over in Fort Lauderdale during a routine traffic stop and charged with drivingwithout a license.
The offenses that can trigger incarceration at detention centers like the one I visited recently include traffic violations such as drivingwithout a valid license.
He was arrested in 2009 for underage possession of alcohol and in 2011 for driving with a suspended license and without insurance after being involved in a car accident.
Signs of a possible vehicle-borne improvised explosive attack are unfamiliar vehicles driving repeatedly around crowded areas, people taking videos or photos of these areas, cars withoutlicense plates or multiple fuel cans in the seat or trunk of a vehicle.