http://www.sptimes.com/2008/01/13/Hillsborough/Tip_leads_to_arrests_.shtml
“Tip leads to arrests, recovery of goods”
By RODNEY THRASH, Times Staff Writer
Published January 13, 2008
TAMPA -
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Two suspects told the tipster they had stolen a trailer last month from a Days Inn on N Dale Mabry Highway, police said. They wanted him to take the contents of the trailer - 42 boxes of cell phone repeaters valued at $187,000 - to a junk yard. Instead, the man led police to the Regency Palms Apartments, 4123 E Linebaugh Ave.
Inside unit No. 904, officers said they found the boxes of repeaters, which enhance cell phone reception in buildings where the quality is poor. Tampa police also recovered three guns, $7,600 in counterfeit cash and one vehicle.
Two men, Hector Felician-Pizzaro and Lazaro Raul Fernandez, were in police custody Saturday.”
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Police check out reports of suspicious purchases (Ohio)
2/12/08
PORTAGE TOWNSHIP — The sheriff’s office questioned two Russian men Sunday who told a deputy they bought more than 200 prepaid cell phones over the weekend from area stores.
Neither was charged with a crime, but the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office notified Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Cleveland of the incident, according to a sheriff’s office report. The men, who have lived in the United States for at least five years, told the deputy they bought the Tracfones from stores in the Port Clinton and Sandusky areas to resell to a businessman, according to the report. The businessman, whose name or location they did not provide, then would sell the phones on eBay, they told Deputy George Byington.
Prepaid cell phones have been linked to terrorist activity in the past, causing store officials to consider the men’s behavior suspicious. Some stores have limits on the number of prepaid cell phones customers can buy at one time.
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http://www.centralohio.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/BC/20080212/NEWS01/802120303/1002
521 posted on 02/12/2008 2:53:48 PM PST by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)