David Hahn

A Michigan man named David Hahn was arrested in 2007 for stealing smoke detectors, apparently to collect radioactive sources from them. He was charged with stealing at least 13 smoke detectors (containing americium-241) from several buildings. At the time his face was covered with open sores reported to be related to exposure to radioactive materials. Previously, around 1993 at the age of 17, he had accumulated large amounts of commercial radioactive sources in an effort to build a homemade nuclear reactor.