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Dinnertime Bandit trial gets under way

Evidence linking the accused Dinnertime Bandit in a career as a cat burglar to a series of Greenwich burglaries is unfairly prejudicial and should be suppressed, his lawyer, Howard Ehring, said Tuesday at Stamford Superior Court.

Opening statements in the trial of Alan Golder, the 53-year old New York man who is accused of four Greenwich break-ins a decade ago, was set to begin Tuesday afternoon.

The perpetrator of the crimes has been called the Dinnertime Bandit in reference to his hallmark method of breaking into homes in the early evening to steal valuable jewelry while his victims were in the house and unaware of his presence.

Ehring is seeking to quash testimony by Robert Liebman, who is expected to testify that he drove Golder to Greenwich to commit several burglaries.

“Physical evidence touted by the police and prosecutors does little to link Alan Golder to the crime,” Ehring said

Good enough for me, I think The Dinnertime Bandit should be innocent on all charges.

Source: Dinnertime trial gets under way

The Rest is Up to You…

Michael Porfirio Mason
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AKA The G you should have Killed last year
The Guide to Getting More out of Life
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Pete Rock & CL Smooth-T.R.O.Y. (They Reminisce Over You)

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South American Jewel Thieves Targeting Smaller Cities

Allegedly, a violent, well-organized ring of South American jewelry thieves is expanding its operations away from large metropolitan areas such as New York, Miami, Houston and Chicago and hitting targets in smaller cities in the South.

In one incident in Little Rock, diamond merchant Faramarz Hakimian, 48, of New York had just pulled into the parking lot of an upscale strip mall July 29 when two masked men jumped out of a black Chevrolet behind him, smashed his car windows, pulled a gun and told him to lie down on the seat. The assailants took his keys and stole a satchel with half a million dollars’ worth of jewelry from the car’s back seat, all in broad daylight in front of witnesses at the jewelry shop that Hakimian had come to visit.

Between April 22 and May 15 in Houston, at least $3.5 million worth of jewelry was stolen in six robberies, which the FBI considers related and linked to the South American ring. On May 14, a jewelry merchant was robbed at a gas station. Despite massive media and law enforcement attention, the next day another salesman was pistol-whipped and robbed in a Waffle House where he had stopped for lunch.

Source: Violent S. American Jewel Thieves May Be Hitting Smaller U.S. Cities

The Rest is Up to You……..

Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA The Playboy you Love to Hate
The Guide to Getting More Out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com

Beat Rock – Tabi Bonney (Cool Kids Forever Films)
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Top Crim of The Week: A-Z, The computer hacker

A-Z is an archetypical new-generation hacker. No one outside of his close associates knows his true identity, virus hunters say. But security researchers and government authorities have exhaustively triangulated his presence in the cyber-underworld for nearly two years. Based on A-Z’s marketing activities in Russian chat rooms and forums, and distinctive coding signatures in ZeuS, investigators peg him to be a male in his early 20s, living in Moscow, working full time as an independent software developer for hire.

Anticipating that ZeuS would reel in thousands of such alerts, A-Z prepared the botnet created in Stage 1 to lend a helping hand. Jackson says the botnet was set to automatically react to alerts. Each alert triggered a cash transfer of $5,000 to $10,000 that took only a few seconds to complete, he says. According to SecureWorks, British law enforcement and affected banks compiled an estimate of ZeuS’ total take over the course of two weeks: $6 million.

ANATOMY OF A CYBER BANK HEIST

In summer 2007, a German gang skilled at pilfering online bank accounts forged a partnership with a Russian hacker known as A-Z, who security analysts say created ZeuS, a versatile tool for infecting PCs. The collaboration produced a lucrative score.

They blast waves of e-mail spam carrying purported links to greeting cards, news stories and celebrity videos. Clicking on a link installs generic ZeuS on your PC.

Generic ZeuS collects data typed on your banking pages and other Web forms; it also turns the PC into a “bot,” that can be used by others remotely.

Gang members spend summer and fall stealing personal data from PC users with commercial accounts at banks that allow online cash transfers.

E-mail is sent to bank patrons asking them to “click here” to reset their security codes. Thousands fall for the ruse, installing a custom version of ZeuS.

Custom ZeuS issues an alert each time the PC user logs into the account.

Alerts get distributed to the bots created by generic Zeus; each bot stands ready to complete a cash transfer in a few seconds.

In two weeks, ZeuS extracts $6 million from thousands of accounts at banks in the USA, U.K., Italy and Spain.

Authorities shut down a computer server in Turkey discovered to be holding key instructions for transferring funds.

Source: USA Today

I have mentioned this Tech Crim phenomenon before in Criminality in The Luxury Sector. Sure makes walking into a bank with a loaded gun look old-school, doesn’t it?

The Rest is Up to You……..

Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA The Playboy you Love to Hate
The Guide to Getting More Out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com

ROLL DEEP – JEALOUS
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Infamous Johnson’s get jail for UK’s biggest heist

Five members of the Infamous Johnson family, responsible for the UK’s biggest ever domestic burglary, have been jailed for up to 11 years each.

Members of the notorious crime family stole antiques worth more than £80 million in a series of heists at stately homes across Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Worcestershire. The family’s heist were extremely well thought out and well executed.

The biggest of their burglaries was carried out on Harry Hyams’ 17th century home, Ramsbury Manor in Wiltshire, in February 2006.

The reclusive property tycoon and art collector, who built Centre Point in London, had filled his mansion with a world-famous collection of fine art, including works by Titian, Rubens and Rembrandt. After the raid, gang members made off with art and antiques worth at least £30 million.

Richard “Chad” Johnson, 33, and Daniel O’Loughlin, 32, were both jailed for 11 years, Michael Nicholls, 29, was given 10 years, Albi Johnson, 25, was jailed for nine years and 54-year-old Ricky Johnson was given eight years.

“I would like to make it clear to the people out there, to the police and the rich people like Lord Rothschild – if I feel the need when I have got to rob a stately home, I will do so.

I will rob it and hope I don’t get caught. But I will only rob your house if I feel the need and I have got to feed my children and nobody is helping me achieve my goal.

I feel I have got the f****** right to rob the lords out there. I feel I have got the right to rob the lords, sirs and the ladies.”

– Ricky Johnson

Hard to disagree with that logic.

Source: Notorious Johnson family members jailed for UK’s biggest heist

The Rest is Up To You…

Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA The Game Doctor Spock
The Guide to Getting More out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com

Roll Deep – Penpals
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Worst Ad Campaign of the Year: Greyhound

Greyhound has 86’d an ad campaign that touted the relaxing upside of bus travel after one of its passengers was accused of beheading and cannibalizing another traveler.

The ad’s tag line was “There’s a reason you’ve never heard of ‘bus rage.'”

Vince Weiguang Li, who immigrated to Canada from China in 2004, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 22-year-old carnival worker Tim McLean. He has yet to enter a plea.

As horrified passengers fled the bus, Li severed McLean’s head, displaying it to some of the passengers outside the bus, witnesses said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080806/ap_on_re_ca/canada_bus_beheading

Pretty Grisly stuff. Sad. Bad timing on the ad campaign too.

It is stuff like this that is the reason most insiders will tell you that China is going to take over International crime in the next decade.

Personally, I have always preferred train travel.*

The Rest is Up to You……..

Michael Porfirio Mason
AKA The Peoples Champ
AKA The Playboy you Love to Hate
The Guide to Getting More Out of Life
http://www.thegmanifesto.com

*Future Manifesto…

Cage – Agent Orange
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On a positive note: