Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 11:52:46 PM CET
Police:
PDA's don't lie
People are remarkably truthful on their personal digital devices -- investigators said
The Sony Clie was as good a smoking gun as investigators could get in a white-collar crime.
Files: 1 the names of more than 20 victims 2 used the digital camera to take pictures of his partners in crime
phone: It was hard for Torres to deny the Clie was his, the police said, given that he had entered his parents' phone numbers under "Dad" and "Mom." Torres is being held in jail on $1 million bail.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 10:07:43 PM CET
Teen used fake gun to get porn tapes
Police say a Maine ninth-grader tried to get some X-rated videos with a fake gun. Now, authorities in Waterboro are deciding how to proceed in the case of the 14-year-old boy.
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Topic: - on October 26, 2002 at 12:44:28 PM CEST
International Web Police
Web Police is an internationally recognized Internet Police Authority whose sole purpose is to serve and protect citizens of the Internet community throughout the world.
The staff of the International Web Police comprise the largest international crime fighting organization in the world dedicated to serving and protecting citizens of the Internet community. They have been fighting Internet related crime longer than any other organization in the world.
¬> <a href="www.web-police.org"target="_blank">Web Police
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Topic: - on October 25, 2002 at 8:19:22 PM CEST
Documents on the Sniper
Beltway Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad served in the U.S. Army for 15 years as a "demolitions/weapons expert" and could "make a weapon out of anything," his former wife once reported. According to Mildred Muhammad, she was hospitalized in May 2000 when she received a phone call from John Muhammad, who threatened to kill her.
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Topic: - on October 25, 2002 at 6:09:58 PM CEST
5 held as police find 700 pot plants in building
More than 700 marijuana plants, ranging in size from bud clones to 4-foot plants ready for harvest, were cleared from 900 Genesee St. Each mature plant generally yields approximately two pounds of pot. High-quality pot has a street value of about $2,000 a pound.
¬> <a href="www.buffalonews.com"target="_blank">Buffalo News
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Topic: - on October 23, 2002 at 8:58:14 PM CEST
Suicide in Police Cruiser
Houdini dies
Sheriff Smith says Kay was searched, handcuffed and put in a cruiser.
Man fatally shot himself in the head Tuesday while sitting in the back of a sheriff's cruiser.
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Topic: - on October 23, 2002 at 6:57:31 PM CEST
Anthrax Case: Bloodhounds Lead Investigators to Ex-Government Scientist
The FBI is using an elite team of specially trained dogs and leads from agents deployed to Africa in its investigation of former government scientist Steven Hatfill and his possible role in the five anthrax deaths.
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Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 4:35:17 PM CEST
Million dollar necklace stolen at exhibition
"I think it is done by a professional," said Younis al-Jama', owner of Home Secure, which has provided surveillance cameras to the event for the past six years. Al-Jama' said the company had installed over a dozen cameras, many of them hidden, at exits and entrances and throughout the venue. Armed police were stationed at exits and entrances. Although the venue has many door, all but one point for entry and exit were closed for the show.
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Topic: - on October 21, 2002 at 10:10:07 PM CEST
Bank robbed by own guard
An Israeli bank has been robbed at gunpoint by its own security guard, who made off with 100,000 shekels (13,500 pounds), police say. A police spokesman said on Sunday he expected police to catch the guard, who fled on foot, soon because "we know everything about him".
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Topic: - on October 21, 2002 at 8:10:14 AM CEST
Finnish police on elk alert
Finnish police are adopting a policy of zero tolerance towards speeding drivers after a record number of collisions with elks this year. With an adult animal weighing some 200 kilograms (440 lb), the crash can be fatal for both elk and driver.
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Topic: - on October 16, 2002 at 11:35:52 PM CEST
Man has to come to US or go to Jail, Denied visa to do same
Man has to come to US or go to Jail, Denied visa to do same. Dmitry Sklyarov, the Russian programmer at the centre of the first Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) prosecution, has been denied a US visa in a move that jeopardises his requirement to testify in the forthcoming trial of his former employers, ElcomSoft. ElcomSoft's chief executive, Alexander Katalov, has likewise been denied a visa, Planet PDF reports, in a move that surely means the already delayed October 21 start of the trial will be put back still further.
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Topic: - on October 16, 2002 at 1:06:49 AM CEST
Frightful risk for medical pot users
Home-invasion robbers don't care who's growing or using the marijuana. A bold, daytime home-invasion robbery targeting a marijuana garden in El Dorado County has alarmed law-enforcement officials and highlighted risks for growers of medicinal pot.
Four gunmen dressed as FBI and ATF agents forced their way into a family's rural Lotus home last week and took 20 plants -- which the homeowner told authorities were for medicinal purposes -- and about $300 in cash.
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