By . Daily Mail Reporter . Last updated at 5:49 PM on 20th October 2011 . Mugshots have been released of the five foreign nationals travelling the . country in a rented RV who broke into a San Antonio courthouse early . Wednesday, triggering a heavy police response. Downtown streets were closed, bomb-sniffing dogs were brought in and the . FBI were summoned. After officials watched security footage of them it was thought they may just be . harmless pranksters. Some of the men, all in their 20s, . wore sombreros and seemed on surveillance video to wield a gavel while running through the . courthouse before getting caught, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said. Scroll down for video . Pranksters: The 'terror suspects' were later found to have been running the halls of the court in sombreros while waving gavels . Fake bomb scare: A rented RV used by the suspects in the break-in at the Bexar County Courthouse in San Antonio, Texas . Authorities said they had no weapons and didn't appear dangerous. The identities of the men weren't immediately released, but officials found 90-day visas and Moroccan passports in their rented RV. Bexar County Sheriff Amadeo Ortiz said some of them arrived in New York last month and drove the vehicle to Florida, where the others joined them. 'It's just very strange,' Mr Wolff said. 'If it was some kids in the neighborhood, you'd think it was a prank.' Hours earlier: A suspect is patted down by an officer outside the courthouse in San Antonio, Texas, at 2am on Wednesday . Cuffed: A man is guarded by a police officer as he sits outside the courthouse with his hands behind his back . Authorities said the men, who were expected to be charged with burglary, spoke little English but were cooperating with authorities through the help of a translator. Mr Wolff chuckled at times while describing what may have been a prank, which apparently began with some of the group entering the courthouse through a fire escape. Three of the men were caught inside, and two were outside near the RV. The mood was far more serious around the Bexar County Courthouse when police arrested the men about 1.30am. Ongoing probe... over a prank: District Court Judge Peter Sakai walks past a taped-off stairway that leads from the fourth to the fifth floor of the courthouse . Officers called in bomb-sniffing dogs, FBI agents were brought to the scene, and downtown streets were blocked off. Authorities also searched the nearby convention centre, where dozens of top U.S. intelligence officials are attending a conference. Michael Vickers, the undersecretary of defence for intelligence, was scheduled to speak there Wednesday along with Air Force Gen. Robert Kehler, chief of U.S. Strategic Command. Mr Ortiz said authorities were waiting on a search warrant to comb the RV more thoroughly. Investigators said they already had found the visas, maps, cell phones and computers.
San Antonio had been on alert after initial reports said the foreign suspects had photos of courthouses and water systems in their van .
By . Daily Mail Reporter . Last updated at 5:49 PM on 20th October 2011 . Mugshots have been released of the five foreign nationals travelling the . country in a rented RV who broke into a San Antonio courthouse early . Wednesday, triggering a heavy police response. Downtown streets were closed, bomb-sniffing dogs were brought in and the . FBI were summoned. After officials watched security footage of them it was thought they may just be . harmless pranksters. Some of the men, all in their 20s, . wore sombreros and seemed on surveillance video to wield a gavel while running through the . courthouse before getting caught, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said. Scroll down for video . Pranksters: The 'terror suspects' were later found to have been running the halls of the court in sombreros while waving gavels . Fake bomb scare: A rented RV used by the suspects in the break-in at the Bexar County Courthouse in San Antonio, Texas . Authorities said they had no weapons and didn't appear dangerous. The identities of the men weren't immediately released, but officials found 90-day visas and Moroccan passports in their rented RV. Bexar County Sheriff Amadeo Ortiz said some of them arrived in New York last month and drove the vehicle to Florida, where the others joined them. 'It's just very strange,' Mr Wolff said. 'If it was some kids in the neighborhood, you'd think it was a prank.' Hours earlier: A suspect is patted down by an officer outside the courthouse in San Antonio, Texas, at 2am on Wednesday . Cuffed: A man is guarded by a police officer as he sits outside the courthouse with his hands behind his back . Authorities said the men, who were expected to be charged with burglary, spoke little English but were cooperating with authorities through the help of a translator. Mr Wolff chuckled at times while describing what may have been a prank, which apparently began with some of the group entering the courthouse through a fire escape. Three of the men were caught inside, and two were outside near the RV. The mood was far more serious around the Bexar County Courthouse when police arrested the men about 1.30am. Ongoing probe... over a prank: District Court Judge Peter Sakai walks past a taped-off stairway that leads from the fourth to the fifth floor of the courthouse . Officers called in bomb-sniffing dogs, FBI agents were brought to the scene, and downtown streets were blocked off. Authorities also searched the nearby convention centre, where dozens of top U.S. intelligence officials are attending a conference. Michael Vickers, the undersecretary of defence for intelligence, was scheduled to speak there Wednesday along with Air Force Gen. Robert Kehler, chief of U.S. Strategic Command. Mr Ortiz said authorities were waiting on a search warrant to comb the RV more thoroughly. Investigators said they already had found the visas, maps, cell phones and computers.
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