DEARBORN – In a meeting with members of The Arab American News last week, Dearborn Mayor Jack O’Reilly said that he planned to meet with leaders of the city’s Bint Jebail Cultural Center in order to play police audio of the night their president Ali Hammoud was wrongfully arrested.

Dearborn Police acted on an FBI warrant in the Law Enforcement Information Network (LEIN) system to arrest Hammoud at his home. The information on the system matched Hammoud but the system itself had the wrong man entirely.

O’Reilly said that officers first met Hammoud at his house before determining that it didn’t sound like he was the man the FBI wanted compared to their actual data sheet.

Dearborn Police requested confirmation from the FBI according to O’Reilly but they told police to pick Hammoud up after all.

“Somehow or another the LEIN system had the wrong person, but the data was him,” O’Reilly said.

“So now the question is, how did they get him as opposed to the person they wanted?”

Hammoud was released from jail the next morning after it was determined that the FBI had the wrong man; the FBI admitted their mistake and called him a “respected community leader” in a press release.

O’Reilly said the meeting with Bint Jebail will likely occur some time in the next two weeks.