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- Police secretly track cellphones to solve routine crimes
- Guard pleads guilty to blowing up hi-tech US govt lab while cooking meth
- Explosions at US military base in Kanagawa, Japan
- French train gunman claims attempted robbery rather than ‘terrorist intentions’
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Posted: 23 Aug 2015 06:43 PM PDT
 The crime itself was ordinary: Someone smashed the back window of a parked car one evening and ran off with a cellphone. What was unusual was how the police hunted the thief.Detectives did it by secretly using one of the government’s most powerful phone surveillance tools — capable of intercepting data from hundreds of people’s cellphones at a time — to track the phone, and with it their suspect, to the doorway of a public housing complex. They used it to search for a car thief, too. And a woman who made a string of harassing phone calls. In one case after another, USA TODAY found police in Baltimore and other cities used the phone tracker, commonly known as a stingray, to locate the perpetrators of routine street crimes and frequently concealed that fact from the suspects, their lawyers and even judges. In the process, they quietly transformed a form of surveillance billed as a tool to hunt terrorists and kidnappers into a staple of everyday policing. The suitcase-size tracking systems, which can cost as much as $400,000, allow the police to pinpoint a phone’s location within a few yards by posing as a cell tower. In the process, they can intercept information from the phones of nearly everyone else who happens to be nearby, including innocent bystanders. They do not intercept the content of any communications. Dozens of police departments from Miami to Los Angeles own similar devices. A USA TODAY Media Network investigation identified more than 35 of them in 2013 and 2014, and the American Civil Liberties Union has found 18 more. When and how the police have used those devices is mostly a mystery, in part because the FBI swore them to secrecy. Defense attorneys assigned to many of those cases said they did not know a stingray had been used until USA TODAY contacted them, even though state law requires that they be told about electronic surveillance. “I am astounded at the extent to which police have been so aggressively using this technology, how long they’ve been using it and the extent to which they have gone to create ruses to shield that use,” Stephen Mercer, the chief of forensics for Maryland’s public defenders, said. Prosecutors said they, too, are sometimes left in the dark. “When our prosecutors are made aware that a detective used a cell-site stimulator, it is disclosed; however we rely upon the Police Department to provide us with that information,” said Tammy Brown, a spokeswoman for the Baltimore’s State’s Attorney. “We are currently working with the Police Department to improve upon the process to better obtain this information in order to comply with the law.” Read More Here The post Police secretly track cellphones to solve routine crimes appeared first on USAHM Conspiracy News.       |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2015 05:11 PM PDT
 A former security officer who has pleaded guilty to cooking meth at a secure government lab, faces a long term behind bars for his “unauthorized training experiment” which caused an explosion at the high-tech facility last month. According to court documents, Christopher Bartley, a police lieutenant for the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST), admitted to trying to manufacture 5 grams of the illegal drug using a “shake and bake” method that resulted in an explosion at the government facility. Documents filed against the 41-year old accuse the former officer of the law of “knowingly and intentionally attempt[ing]to manufacture a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine, a Schedule II controlled substance.” The incident at the lab occurred in the evening of July 18 where the cop tried to cook the meth under a chemical fume hood, according to his plea agreement. The experiment, which did not play out as planned, blew out four shatterproof windows sending them flying 22-33 feet from the building. Bartley suffered burns on his arms and singed eyebrows and hair, according to his US attorney. He was seen by the firefighters leaving the building in an effort to dispose of the evidence in a trash bins at two dump sites near the lab and at another NIST building. The investigators found equipment and household items for making meth in the lab which the cop had quickly abandoned. In his car they found a recipe and even more equipment. In court on Friday, Bartley’s attorney, Steven Van Grack, said that his client was conducting an “unauthorized training experiment” to show how easy it is to make meth. The plea agreement also states that Bartley sent an email to his supervisor admitting that he had tried to make the methamphetamine. The court however found no evidence that it was a training exercise and argued that drug enforcement isn’t part of Bartley’s job. The “researcher” now faces up to 20 years in prison at the sentencing scheduled for November. Source The post Guard pleads guilty to blowing up hi-tech US govt lab while cooking meth appeared first on USAHM Conspiracy News.    |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2015 05:04 PM PDT
 A series of explosions erupted early Monday morning, at Sagami General Depot, a US army outpost in Kanagawa Prefecture, on the outskirts of Tokyo. More than ten fire trucks were dispatched to the site of the fire, but no general evacuation of nearby areas was called. The fire was fully extinguished after firefighters deployed at the base were joined by Japanese emergency responders, the city fire department said. Meanwhile US Army Japan voiced their appreciation for the services offered by the local fire department. “The Army appreciates the quick reaction and support of our partners from the Sagamihara City emergency services,” the army statement read. The building was not a hazardous material storage facility and did not store ammunition or radiological materials, the US Army added. The fire department of the city of Sagamihara said the blasts rang out shortly before 1:00am local time, national broadcaster NHK reported, and involved what they termed “dangerous materials.” “I was asleep, and at first thought it might have been the roar of thunder, but then there was a sequence of explosions for 10, maybe 15 minutes. A pillar of orange rose to the skies, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder,” one eyewitness told NHK. Sagami General Depot is a sprawling 200-hectare facility, bordered by urban areas and a train line, with a university campus and a hospital in the vicinity. A former WWII-era tank plant and arsenal, it currently houses the 35th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, and various logistics and medical departments overseeing the US military network in the region. The site, which has been underused in recent years, lies on prime real estate just 40km from the heart of Tokyo, and has been subject of negotiations, with the US planning to eventually return most of the territory, under the terms of a 2006 agreement. Source The post Explosions at US military base in Kanagawa, Japan appeared first on USAHM Conspiracy News.    |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2015 05:03 PM PDT
 The heavily-armed man who was tackled by passengers aboard a high-speed train in France claims he was only trying to rob some “wealthy people” because he was hungry and by the “decree of providence” found a bag of weapons, according to his lawyer. The gunman, who opened fire aboard a Thalys high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris on Friday, was described as weak and malnourished by French lawyer Sophie David, who questioned him during the police interrogation in Arras after the attack. “[I saw] somebody who was very sick, somebody very weakened physically, as if he suffered from malnutrition, very, very thin and very haggard,” Sophie David told BFMTV. The gunman – who was heavily armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, nine cartridge magazines to it, an automatic Luger pistol and a cutter – added that he was very “surprised” to find out that his case had received such a wide publicity. “He is dumbfounded by the terrorist motives attributed to his action,” she added, noting that the suspect looked “neither dangerous nor vindictive” as she spoke to him. The attacker was identified through his fingerprints as Ayoub el Khazzani, who was known to French and Spanish intelligences over his alleged ties to a “radical Islamist movement,” French media reported. However, according to the lawyer, the 26-year-old Moroccan consistently denies any terrorist intent and does not see any terrorist nature in his actions. The attacker claims he was planning only to ransom passengers as he was hungry. The attacker claims to have found all the weapons and ammunition in a park near the Gare du Midi railway station in Brussels, where he usually slept because he was homeless. He said it was a “decree of providence.” “A few days later he decided to get on a train that some other homeless people told him would be full of wealthy people traveling from Amsterdam to Paris and he hoped to feed himself by armed robbery,” David said, as quoted by Reuters. According to the lawyer, the man also denied firing any shots before passengers charged to disarm the gunman. However, according to the French Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, the gunman had fired “several shots” before he was disarmed. Read More Here The post French train gunman claims attempted robbery rather than ‘terrorist intentions’ appeared first on USAHM Conspiracy News.   |
