Posted on 05/14/2005 9:09:43 PM PDT by CHARLITE
A string of break-ins last month at Lima businesses had police baffled - until a laptop computer disappeared from an insurance office on Cable Court.
Tracking software on the stolen machine alerted a Tennessee company to its location, which allowed police to track down the computer and a suspect.
Chad Thompson, 32, was arraigned yesterday in Lima Municipal Court on one count of breaking and entering, police said. He was being held in the Allen County Jail on $10,000 bond.
Lima police Detective Tim Clark said the tracking software - known as "CyberAngel" - provided the break in a case that had stymied investigators.
"It's Big Brother," he said. "This device obviously solved a string of burglaries that, if we had ever solved it, we wouldn't have solved it this fast."
Ms. Thompson, who is not related to the breaking-and-entering suspect, said the CyberAngel software silently transmits a signal to the company if someone operates the laptop without entering the correct password. She said that when she called CyberAngel, a company employee told her the missing computer had sent out an electronic alert at 4:30 a.m. that day.
Because the machine had been used to go online, the company was able to track the phone number where the connection originated.
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Cool!
Sorry, I forgot. Why pay tuition?? Go to jail and you get a free education. meals, a dorm room, clothing and an allowance.
Sacajaweau wrote:
Being a criminal is getting tricky....Maybe a Criminal 101 course at all State Colleges is needed.
Sorry, I forgot. Why pay tuition?? Go to jail and you get a free education. meals, a dorm room, clothing and an allowance.
--> I only want to attend if they custom sew my name to my neatly pressed "school " uniform ! /sarc
I seem to recall computers being stolen from Republican party offices throughout the country in the days leading up to the election. Maybe we can track down what was stolen from there too.
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