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ID theft during tax season
WSBT-TVTax season is in full swing, but if you’re not careful, your refund could be going into the pockets of thieves. Criminals are using stolen names and security numbers to file phony tax forms. “I had information stolen through the mail,&...Tags: Interior Policy, Criminals, Viral Diseases and Infections, Theft, Internal Revenue Service
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Prostitution goes online in South Bend
WSBT-TVSOUTH BEND – A prostitution sting in South Bend leads to the arrest of three men. The sting took place late Saturday night and into the early morning hours. It involved the Street Crimes Unit going undercover and posting an ad for prostitution...Tags: Police Arrests, Sex Crimes, Media Industry, Prostitution, Rentals
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Prostitution sting leads to arrests in South Bend
WSBT-TVSOUTH BEND – Police in South Bend are cracking down on prostitution. Late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, the SBPD Street Crimes Unit conducted a prostitution sting, and a number of men caught soliciting prostitutes were arrested. The...Tags: Sex Crimes, Media Industry, Prostitution, Crime, Law and Justice
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Hackers take over sentencing commission website
WASHINGTON (AP) — The hacker-activist group Anonymous says it hijacked the website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission to avenge the death of Aaron Swartz, an Internet activist who committed suicide. The FBI is investigating. The website of the...
Tags: FBI, Justice System, Anonymous (internet groups), Aaron Swartz, Crime, Law and Justice
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CMU Net censorship expert charged with child porn
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP) — A professor whose research focuses on Internet censorship and the use of children in advertising has been charged with having child pornography on his Central Michigan University computer, the school announced Thursday....Tags: Child Development, Sex Crimes, Prosecution, Colleges and Universities, Central Michigan University
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C. Ind. school website hacking traced to Iraq
BROWNSBURG, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say the source of the hacking of a suburban Indianapolis school district's website is from Iraq. Police say the hacking of the website posed no safety threat to the Brownsburg Community Schools district just west... -
Elkhart city employee pleads guilty to child pornography charges
ELKHART COUNTY – An Elkhart City employee has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. The Secret Service helped arrest 52-year-old Stephen Sachs of Goshen in February while he was working with the street department. He was arrested...
Tags: Abusive Behavior, U.S. Secret Service, Crime, Law and Justice
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Who 'shot the sheriff' ... FBI, Berrien County try to crack website hack
WSBT-TV ReporterThey're the ones who protect us from crime, but now one local police agency is a crime victim. They know who, but investigators are trying to figure out how hackers were able to take over the Berrien County Sheriff's Department website. Anonymous IRC, a...Tags: FBI, Mark Twain
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Bullet redirects South Bend cop's career course to college with stops along way
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterMitch Kajzer sometimes wonders how his life would be different if he hadn't been shot 20 years ago as a young South Bend police officer. "If it had never happened, I probably would have been a career police officer," he says. That would have been fine,...Tags: Indiana University South Bend, College Sports, Medical Specialization, Abusive Behavior, Colleges and Universities
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Live in Elkhart County? Track crime in your neighborhood with new online tool
WSBT-TV ReporterPeople in Elkhart County can now track crime in their neighborhood online. Prosecutor Curtis Hill announced Thursday his office has teamed up with local police agencies throughout the county to use an interactive crime mapping program that the public can...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice
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Indiana 'sextortion' suspect ordered held, no bond
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered an Indiana man charged with coercing two teenage boys into making sexually explicit online videos to be held without bond, the U.S. attorney's office said. During a hearing in federal court...
Tags: Criminals, Judges, Services and Shopping, FBI, Justice System
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Anonymous hackers target South Bend company's website
SOUTH BEND — An international company based in South Bend has been targeted by hackers claiming to be a part of the group Anonymous.
On Wednesday, users of the website for Abro Industries Inc., an adhesives and automotive fluids supplier that sells...Tags: Lobbying, Economy, Business and Finance, Piracy, Anonymous (internet groups), Companies and Corporations
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