Tag: CRIMINALS

If you thought the U.S. was turning into a police state, just count your 50 lucky stars you don't live in the U.K. where, according to The Guardian, civilian police forces are planning on employing military-like unmanned drones to keep aerial tabs on "antisocial motorists, ­protesters, agricultural thieves(?) and fly-tippers(??)." The Guardian managed to get their hands on documents outlining ...

Sure, you can use the PlayStation 3 to play games and watch Blu-ray movies -- heck, you can even use it to study gravity. But the latest interesting and unique usage of the console comes from Britain, where the country's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) is alleging the gaming machine is being used to run massive crime syndicates. According to a recently-released report by SOCA, prisoners ...

If you plan on visiting the Tampa Bay area, you may want to try harder than usual not to be arrested. A new mug shot Web site is putting perps front and center, and we're not just talking photos. Tampa Bay Mug Shots is a new site devoted to criminal activity in the Florida counties of Pinellas, Hillsborough, and Pasco. The main feature of the site is a scrollable line of mug shots at the top of ...

Prison has a way of transforming a two-bit criminal into frickin' MacGyver, so we weren't extremely surprised by this example of inmates thinking on the fly (no pun intended, there). Two weeks ago, guards at the Danilio Pinheiro prison farm in Brazil intercepted a cell-phone-toting pigeon after they spotted the aerial accomplice perched on an electric security wire with a small bag tied to its ...

Criminals are usually steps (or leaps) ahead of the law enforcement agencies that are chasing them. This has, depressingly enough, always been the case. The dark side is apparently very well funded. That said, it is a cheap Internet phone service that is currently giving Italian authorities fits. Police in Italy believe Skype is the new frontier for shady characters attempting to circumvent ...

Larry Mendte, a US TV news anchor and the first male host of the popular 'Access Hollywood' show, has been convicted for hacking into the email of Alycia Lane, a rival news anchor with whom he had a relationship with that was "a little too close." His sentence? Six months of house arrest, a $5,000 fine, and 250 hours of community service. The full story is actually pretty wild and, ...

Contraband cell phones are showing up in prisons at alarming rates, according to USA Today. Last year, South Carolinian authorities discovered more than 1,000 phones in the state's prisons, while Californian authorities confiscated 1,400. These extremely high numbers are largely due, corrections officers suspect, to a new method of smuggling, whereby smugglers use a sort of "launcher" to rocket ...