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An Ottawa gumshoe was in gun trouble again this week.

Ross B. Radke, 54, 500 State St., was arrested Thursday at State and Hitt streets on two complaints of unlawful use of a weapon. Radke operates Angel Private Eyes detective agency, 500 State St.

Police said an officer was driving in an unmarked car and saw Radke driving in a car and putting a pistol in the glove compartment. After stopping Radke, the officer said he found a pistol, a loaded magazine, one loose cartridge and a stun gun. The charges are misdemeanors, punishable by jail, fine and/or probation. Radke also was wanted on a warrant for contempt of court. He posted $650 bond and was released.

In March, a jury found Radke not guilty of a similar gun charge. In that case, an Ottawa officer found a loaded .45-caliber gun in Radke’s glove compartment on June 30. Radke claimed he was legally carrying the gun while working as a private detective. The prosecution argued he illegally had the gun as a private citizen, instead of a working detective.

Radke also has a pending theft charge, which is set for trial Monday, May 9.

Last year, a judge found Radke guilty of illegally having red oscillating, police-style lights on his car.

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The London Metropolitan police e-Crime unit has broken up an elaborate cybercrime ring, arresting 19 people involved in a £6 million heist from online bank accounts.

The suspects are accused of hacking into thousands of computers using malware and then stealing money from people’s online bank accounts. The attacks utilised a Zbot trojan called ZeuS, malware that was recently used to attack business social networking site LinkedIn.

ZeuS is a notorious keylogging trojan aimed primarily at stealing bank details. It is usually installed through phishing campaigns, such as on websites like Facebook, or through forced or unauthorised downloads. It has become one of the top trojans, affecting millions of computers, many of which now operate as part of the virus’ extensive botnet.

The arrests, which include 15 men and four women, were made in London after a number of houses were raided on Monday. They are being held in custody and are currently being questioned over their involvement in the cybercrime ring.

The gang are accused of operating for over three months and face charges of suspicion of fraud, money laundering, and a number of offences listed under the Computer Misuse Act.

This is not the first time people have been arrested for using the ZeuS trojan to steal money. In November of last year a couple from Manchester were arrested for the same crime, revealing how dangerous the malware is and how many hackers are currently employing it.

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KEARNS — A man police say sent his teenage son a pornographic text was charged in Third District Court and arrested after the boy’s mother apparently turned him.

The 42-year-old man was arrested late last week on a warrant. He was charged in Third District Court with one count of dealing in harmful materials to a minor.

According to court documents, a woman recently bought a cell phone for her 15-year-old son. She took the phone away to punish him, and while looking through the phone found a picture of a nude woman in a suggestive pose. The text that went along with the photo said ‘From dad,’ according to charging documents. The picture was allegedly sent in July.

The Deseret News did not name the defendant to protect the victim.

—Pat Reavy

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Lacey police arrested a Yelm man Thursday on suspicion of felony computer trespass and stalking after he allegedly hacked his ex-wife’s Facebook account and posted nude pictures of her on the online social network, where her friends and relatives could see them.

Donald Ray Childress, 45, was being held without bail Friday at the Thurston County Jail. Before his arrest on the latest charges, Childress was about to begin a four-month jail sentence for selling 50 OxyContin pills to an informant for $2,500.

Childress also was being held on suspicion of first-degree theft for allegedly stealing up to $14,000 from his former employers at the Nisqually Rez Mart, court papers state.

According to court papers:

Childress’ ex-wife told Lacey police Sunday that since their divorce became final, Childress had “been hacking her computer and sending her threatening and harassing text messages.”

She said that on Sept. 11, Childress hacked her Facebook account.

“He changed her log on and password so she would not be able to access it. Childress then posted comments about her, and some naked photos of her from when they were married. (She) said some friends and relatives told her of the postings when they looked at her Facebook page.”

She said Childress also had called her employer, saying she uses drugs. She said she immediately volunteered for a drug screen at work, and the results came back negative.

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SAN DIEGO — An ex-con who allegedly exposed himself to two teenage girls on a North County street a day after being released from prison was arrested late Friday evening.

Andres Hernandez Camarena, 36, knew he was wanted by police and removed a GPS tracking device he’d been ordered to wear while on parole, San Diego County Crime Stoppers reported.

Last Sunday, a day after he completed a prison term for a rape conviction, Camarena spotted two female pedestrians, ages 15 and 17, while driving in the 400 block of Massachusetts Avenue in Vista.

He pulled over, got their attention and asked them for directions, after which they glanced into his white Chevrolet pickup truck and noticed that he was performing a lewd act, according to investigators.

One of the teens then used her cell phone camera to take a shot of the rear license plate of Camarena’s vehicle. At that point, he allegedly put the truck in reverse and accelerated rapidly toward the girl, who was able to get out of the way unharmed before he sped off.

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Huntsville police are investigating a deadly late night shooting. The shooting happened before 11 Thursday night in the 3400 Deerfield Road.

Police say the victim – 19 year old Danny Moore – was found lying in the front lawn of a home with a single gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police have arrested and charged 47- year old James Baugh with one count of murder. According to police, Baugh is the owner of One Hour Bonding. Police say the shooting happened during the apprehension of Moore, whose bond had been revoked. No bond has been set for Baugh and the investigation is ongoing.

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Westchester County Police along with the U.S. Secret Service have arrested a Bronx man and charged him with stealing credit card information and then using it to buy more than $100,000 worth of consumer electronics.

Officials say 31 year old James Davis of Decatur Avenue used a skimming device to steal credit card information while he was working as a waiter at the Cheesecake Factory restaurant in White Plains in late 2008.

Davis was charged with 11 counts of 4th Degree Grand Larceny, 11 counts of 3rd Degree

Unlawful Possession of Personal Identification Information, all felonies, as well as one count of Scheme to Defraud, a misdemeanor.

Police say Davis was found in possession of several small bags of cocaine when he was arrested. An addition charge of 5th Degree Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance, a felony, is pending.

Authorities say the investigation into Davis’ alleged activities began in January 2009, when the U.S. Secret Service contacted County Police about suspicious transactions involving credit card information that was stolen in Westchester. The credit card information was used to make unauthorized online purchases from Best Buy and AT&T.

Westchester County Police determined that the Westchester identity theft victims had all dined at the same restaurant in White Plains–the Cheesecake Factory.

Davis, who was a waiter at the restaurant, was identified early on as a suspect in the thefts, but resigned before the investigation was complete. Cops have been searching for him since early 2009.

Police ultimately took Davis into custody Thursday morning at a home on East 161st. Street in the Bronx.

Officials believe davis did not make the unauthorized purchases himself, but sold the information to other parties who used the numbers to buy merchandise.

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A bail bondsman in South Carolina was recently arrested for blackmail and human trafficking for forced labor or services after it was discovered that he forced a woman to do sexual favors and household chores for him in exchange for bail.

Curtis Jackson Maroney, a licensed bondsman in South Carolina, posted $16,122.50 bail for a 39-year-old woman who had been arrested for DUI for the second time, driving uninsured, possessing a controlled substance, hit and run with property damage and driving with a suspended license. He then took her home with him to cook, clean and sexually service him.

Once home, Maroney allegedly told the woman that she would do all the housework and provide him with sexual gratification or he would revoke her bond and return her to jail.

From August 12 to August 17, the woman was constantly watched and held captive until she was able to talk Maroney into driving her to visit her two children at her dad’s house. While Maroney waited in the car, she grabbed the opportunity to call the cops.

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GREELEY, Colo. – A local private investigator is under arrest, for what some say is simply doing his job. And a Weld County father is in jail, simply for hiring the investigator.

Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck is charging both with felony stalking.

Jeff Schudel says he hired the investigator because he was concerned about his 17-month-old son’s safety. The investigator was hired to track Schudel’s estranged wife’s movements.

“We needed to create an accurate picture for the courts to determine custody,” Schudel told us.

He says he never questioned the investigators methods.

According to police reports, the investigator did routine surveillance on the estranged wife and placed a GPS tracking device on her car. She found it and called La Salle Police, who arrested Schudel and the investigator for felony stalking.

Schudel maintains they did not do anything illegal.

“This was a legal endeavor. We hired professionals to conduct this investigation,” he says.

Schudel says while he sits in jail, he remains concerned about his son’s safety.

We talked with other private investigators who expressed concern that routine surveillance was being considered a felony. They say the GPS devices fall into a gray area. Some private investigators use them, but many do not.

Schudel is due back in court in late September.

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A founder of one of the world’s most sophisticated Internet sites for trafficking stolen credit card information has been arrested by French police based on a U.S. criminal indictment unsealed Wednesday, the U.S. Secret Service and Justice Department announced.

Vladislav Anatolieviech Horohorin, 27, was seized at the Nice airport Saturday en route from the Mediterranean principality of Monaco to Moscow, where he resides, authorities said. Horohorin, a citizen of Israel and Ukraine, where he was born, was indicted in November by a federal grand jury in the District on charges of credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft.

The Secret Service called Horohorin, known online as “BadB,” one of its five most wanted cyber-criminals in the world. He is part of a “network that has been repeatedly linked to nearly every major intrusion of financial information reported” to international authorities, said Michael Merritt, the Secret Service’s assistant director for investigations.

Horohorin allegedly used online criminal forums such as CarderPlanet, carder.su, and badb.biz to sell stolen credit card data, known as “dumps,” and helped create the first and only fully automated site available to buyers worldwide, according to court documents.

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NEW YORK — Lawyers for a former IBM senior executive said Tuesday that an intimate relationship with a hedge fund company employee who later “played” him led him to feed her confidential information that resulted in his insider trading arrest.

In court papers submitted in federal court in Manhattan, lawyers for Robert Moffat blamed an affair with fellow defendant Danielle Chiesi for behavior that led him to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud. They asked a judge to sentence him to probation on Sept. 13.

Moffat, 53, of Ridgefield, Conn., was charged along with 20 others in what prosecutors have called the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history. Moffat was once considered a candidate for chief executive officer at IBM.

“That fact that what began as a professional relationship between Ms. Chiesi and himself became intimate is a transgression that haunts Bob terribly,” the lawyers wrote.

They said Moffat met Chiesi in 2002 and over time the “relationship with Ms. Chiesi became an intimate one.”

As a result, they said, Moffat on several occasions in 2008 provided Chiesi with information about three companies, including IBM. At the time, Moffat was senior vice president and group executive at International Business Machines Corp.’s Systems and Technology Group.

The lawyers said Chiesi was not the passive recipient of Moffat’s information.

“To the contrary, she manipulated or ‘played’ him to obtain information that she could use,” the court papers said.

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Timothy Stitt, the Greeley private investigator arrested on suspicion of stalking while following the ex-wife of a client, is the same man whose son was involved in a conflict with former Greeley mayor Ed Clark two years ago.

Stitt was briefly jailed on the stalking accusations and has been released on $10,000 bond. Contacted Friday at his office, Civil Task Force Investigations, Stitt said he had no comment on the case.

He was arrested on a warrant out of La Salle, for following and placing a tracking device on the car of Shantele Sherman of La Salle. Stitt said he’d been hired by Sherman’s estranged husband, Jeff Schudel, in the midst of a child-custody battle.

Although Stitt identifies himself as a private investigator and gave that reason for following and placing the tracking device on Sherman’s car, La Salle Police Chief Carl Harvey said that isn’t a legal excuse for stalking someone.

“If we all followed that reasoning,” Harvey said, “then I could say I was a private investigator and stalk whoever I wanted.”

Stitt’s son, Remington Stitt, was involved in an infamous conflict with then-Mayor Ed Clark in June 2008, when he was riding his motorbike in the neighborhood and Clark pulled him from his bike and held him on the ground for police.

The 15-year-old was riding in the west Greeley neighborhood around Clark’s home, and police ticketed him for driving a motor vehicle without a license and operating an off-road vehicle on the street. Clark said he didn’t hurt the boy, but Stitt’s family filed for a restraining order against the mayor.

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