The Wiretap: Facial Recognition Hiding Alleged Bosnian War Criminal in Tennessee, DHS Claims

For the past 24 years, Sid Dukic has lived a quiet life with his wife and daughter, tucked away in a small red-brick house hidden from the street by two sycamores in front and a hill on the side. The only view on the other side is a house that has proudly flown an American flag over the years. Any neighboring Patriots might have some concerns about Dukic. Until recently, at least.

Earlier this month, immigration police raided her home and claimed her birth name was Miljkovic, not Dukic. The charges and a search warrant last week revealed that he was on Interpol’s Red Notice list and was wanted by authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina for allegedly committing war crimes during the Bosnian War.

While he may be able to change his name, he cannot change his face nor his fingerprints. His biometric markers helped confirm his true identity, according to the DHS, which said it used facial recognition and fingerprint software to match US records for Dukić with Bosnia and Herzegovina files for Miljkovic. Can be done with

No further information has been provided by US or foreign law enforcement regarding his alleged war crimes. Arrested last week, just as he was about to leave for Cancun with his wife, Miljkovic (or Dusic) posted $30,000 bail as he awaits further action from the courts.

He is now accused of making a false statement while applying for a US passport. It is unclear whether he will also face trial for war crimes. Neither attorneys for the defendants nor DHS had provided comment at the time of publication. Interpol did not respond to a request for comment.

In a search warrant application for his East Ridge home, the DHS claimed that he had twice previously tried to file for entry to the US under the name Miljkovic in the 1990s, a third time in 1999 using the Dukik surname. tried. The last one was successful and since then, Dukic has flown under the radar of the authorities. forbes Little could be found in the way of business history or any social media profiles for the defendant. Neither the criminal complaint nor the search warrant for the case indicate how or why he was identified as a suspect. A call to his phone number went unanswered.

In recent months, various agencies have been monitoring his home, with officers on the ground and a Customs and Border Protection aviation unit watching from the skies. A pole camera was also installed across the street as agents observed the suspect leaving the house.

When Homeland Security Investigations raided the home, they found, among other items, “foreign military headwear,” a Serbian flag and an itinerary for a flight to Zagreb, Croatia, according to a search warrant execution document.

Croatia was one of the belligerents in the Bosnian War, which lasted from 1992 to 1995. After years of conflict, claims of ethnic cleansing and mass rape, war crimes were alleged and punished, leading to one of the more infamous atrocities, the Srebrenica massacre. In which the Bosnian Serb forces killed 7,000 people.

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