One of the North Carolina brothers accused of having weapons of mass destruction also took up an interest in flying.
Today NewsChannel 3 heard from the man who ran the school where he got experience in the cockpit.
Daniel Robinson, former Norfolk sailor on the USS Theodore Roosevelt, faces charges of assembling and possessing weapons of mass destruction.
He took flying lessons at a Chesapeake flight school. His brother, Timothy Robinson, was arrested on drug charges. Both were arrested following a drug raid in the home they shared in Shawboro, North Carolina.
Tom Stevens, co-owner of Curtis Eads Flight School in Chesapeake, agreed to take NewsChannel 3 up in the air in one of the cessna planes used to train prospective pilots there. Three years ago one prospective pilot was 34-year-old Daniel Allen Robinson, who is now charged twice with possessing weapons of mass destruction.
"The Eads School has been in business since 1955. We've trained thousands of people to fly airplanes and this is the first case of this type that we've had ever," Stevens said.
Stevens says he has six cessna planes, and it was one of the six that Daniel Robinson used to train with.
Stevens says he only completed four hours of training - far less than the minimum number of forty hours required to get a license. Stevens says someone has to prove they are a United States Citizen before they can start training, which Robinson did.
"I can't control what students do when they leave here and I have no idea what they do when they leave here. While he was here, he was acting normal."
And he was excited to learn how to fly.
Stevens added, "He wanted to learn, and he was taking a lesson every couple of weeks and then just stopped."
Daniel Robinson is now going through an investigation by the Currituck County Sheriff's office and the FBI.
Today NewsChannel 3 heard from the man who ran the school where he got experience in the cockpit.
Daniel Robinson, former Norfolk sailor on the USS Theodore Roosevelt, faces charges of assembling and possessing weapons of mass destruction.
He took flying lessons at a Chesapeake flight school. His brother, Timothy Robinson, was arrested on drug charges. Both were arrested following a drug raid in the home they shared in Shawboro, North Carolina.
Tom Stevens, co-owner of Curtis Eads Flight School in Chesapeake, agreed to take NewsChannel 3 up in the air in one of the cessna planes used to train prospective pilots there. Three years ago one prospective pilot was 34-year-old Daniel Allen Robinson, who is now charged twice with possessing weapons of mass destruction.
"The Eads School has been in business since 1955. We've trained thousands of people to fly airplanes and this is the first case of this type that we've had ever," Stevens said.
Stevens says he has six cessna planes, and it was one of the six that Daniel Robinson used to train with.
Stevens says he only completed four hours of training - far less than the minimum number of forty hours required to get a license. Stevens says someone has to prove they are a United States Citizen before they can start training, which Robinson did.
"I can't control what students do when they leave here and I have no idea what they do when they leave here. While he was here, he was acting normal."
And he was excited to learn how to fly.
Stevens added, "He wanted to learn, and he was taking a lesson every couple of weeks and then just stopped."
Daniel Robinson is now going through an investigation by the Currituck County Sheriff's office and the FBI.
