| FBI Investigates Cell Phone Purchase ($60,000 worth of prepaid cell phones) |
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| Posted by LurkedLongEnough On News/Activism 11/04/2005 4:58:25 PM CST · 75 replies · 2,676+ views NBC.com - Dallas/Fort Worth ^ | October 31, 2005 | NBC5 DALLAS -- A Target store employee alerted Dallas police to a recent extraordinary cellular telephone equipment purchase. A man bought $60,000 worth of hard-to-trace prepaid cell phones. The size of the purchase raised suspicions among police investigators, who turned over the case to the FBI. "Those notifications are taken seriously," former FBI agent Danny Defenbaugh said. "Anytime a business or private citizen sees that type of activity, they need to go the extra step and notify law enforcement." The large purchase caused investigators to look toward possible homeland security threats. On two occasions during October, a man of Middle Eastern... |
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| FBI Interested in Large Prepaid Cell Phone Purchases |
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| Posted by Ready2go On News/Activism 08/08/2006 12:13:27 PM CDT · 272 replies · 5,379+ views WTRF-TV ^ | 8/3/2006 | Sarah Kapis FBI Interested in Large Prepaid Cell Phone Purchases Posted 8/3/2006 06:06 PM Store clerks in Grafton say people have been coming into their stores and buying several phones at a time. Story by Sarah Kapis Email | Bio Folks at the Dollar General in Grafton say in the past few days, several men have come into the store attempting to buy large numbers of prepaid phones. However, store policy only allows a customer to buy two phones at a time, in fact, they are locked away from the general public. The clerks say after they were in the Dollar General,... |
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| Three Middle Eastern Men Found With 1000 Cell Phones |
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| Posted by george76 On News/Activism 08/11/2006 1:08:06 PM CDT · 330 replies · 7,380+ views (TV5) ^ | Aug 11, 2006 Around 1:00am August 11th three men purchased cell phones from the Wal-Mart store on M-81 near the corner of M-24 in Caro. Wal-Mart places a limit on the number of cell phones that can be purchased at once, that number is three. The three men allegedly bought 80 by purchasing them three at time so that an alert wouldn't be triggered by the cash register. They also paid cash. An alert clerk grew suspicious and called Tuscola County central dispatch. The Caro Police Department sent a unit and stopped the rented van on M-81 just east of Caro. The suspects... |
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| Two Men Try To Buy Multiple Cell Phones In Ithaca |
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| Posted by DannyTN On News/Activism 08/12/2006 12:28:49 AM CDT · 11 replies · 216+ views wnem tv5 ^ | Aug 11, 2006 04:18 PM CDT | WNEM TV5 (TV5) -- While FBI agents pour into Caro another incident breaks out in Gratiot County. At approximately 11:35am August 11th police were called to the Dollar General Store in Ithaca after a" clerk in Ithaca became suspicious after two men came into the store, and became upset when they were turned down while trying to buy several disposal cell phones. TV5's Mike Terry spoke with the clerk who called police. She said they were two "Middle Eastern" men and said they've been coming into the store weekly and buying disposable cell phones. She said the same thing was happening at... |
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