Monday, December 07, 2009

Gun permit lies trigger probe of Syracuse private eye

Noah Felice regularly dangled his private investigator license on a chain around his Private investigator Noah Feliceneck for all to see, his former business partner said.

Felice had two antennae attached to the top of his trunk to make the vehicle look like an undercover police car — but they were wired to nothing, said Leigh Hunt, Syracuse’s former police chief who owned a PI business with Felice until they had a falling out in 2006.

Felice claimed in a History Channel broadcast last year that, in 1980, extraterrestrials used a beam of light to crash the plane he was piloting. The show’s producers said his credibility made the case seminal in the history of UFO sightings.

But for years, Felice has been working under false pretenses, according to police in two jurisdictions.

Felice, 58, of 5421 Springview Drive, Fayetteville, was charged in recent months in Syracuse and Pennsylvania with using deceit to obtain pistol permits and his PI licenses.

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