Grenade Attack on Marine was 'Love Triangle' Crime

Friday, June 6, 2003
(12:20 AM ET) (04:20 GMT)
Reuters

The plan was to kill him "in a way that would appear to be through the course of his official duties or through the actions of a terrorist," the indictment states.

PHOENIX, Arizona -- Reuters
Authorities say an Arizona woman and her U.S. Marine Corps lover tried to kill the woman's husband, also a Marine, with a grenade in Kuwait and hoped the attack would be blamed on terrorists.

The woman and her lover are both in custody on murder conspiracy charges. The husband has recovered from shrapnel wounds.

Wendy Glass, 33, was arrested in Yuma, Arizona, after being indicted by a federal grand jury along with Chief Warrant Officer Larry Framness, 36, for a grenade attack on husband James "Houston" Glass at an air base where the two Marines were stationed.

James Glass, 37, suffered shrapnel wounds when Framness allegedly lured him into a guard shack on May 14 and detonated the explosive device, according to the indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix Thursday.

Authorities allege the two hoped the plot would be seen as terrorism in the aftermath of the Iraq war.

Wendy Glass was expected to be taken to Phoenix to be held on the charges. Framness is being held at the Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar, California.
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Dan