FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: We have a breaking story out of New York, out of the federal court there. We go now to CNN's Deborah Feyerick for an update there.</s>DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fredericka, well, right now, there's a press conference just behind me. You can probably even see the crush of media. As a matter of fact, why don't we just push in there? At the center of that is the gentleman, a man by the name of Ronald Ferry. He was the security guard at the Millennium Hotel, a hotel that was right across the street from the World Trade Center. Well, apparently, he gave the false statements to FBI agents. That is what he pleaded guilty today in a federal courtroom, saying that he told the FBI he found pilots radio in a room that belonged to an Egyptian student. Now that Egyptian student, Abdullah Hagazi (ph), he spent about 30 days in jail, grilled by the FBI, who said, look, there's a couple of possibilities here, either the radio was yours and your part of the September 11th hijacking plot or the radio was yours, you weren't part of plot, or you could be telling the truth. Hagazi always maintained that he was innocent He spent a lot of time in jail being questioned. It turns out that this security guard told the FBI agents, essentially misled them, as to where the radio was found, saying that it had been in a space in Mr. Hagazi's room. That wasn't the case. There are indications that other security guards may have been involved to implicate Mr. Hagazi. That is part of an ongoing investigation right now. But as we stand, Ronald Ferry, a security guard at the Millennium Hotel, pleading guilty to making false statements to the FBI, saying a pilot's radio was found in a room when it was not -- Fredericka.</s>WHITFIELD: All right, thanks a lot, Deborah. And we'll get more of course on this story as it develops later on in the day. Agents>
Man Pleads Guilty to Giving False Statements to FBI Agents