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Subject: Police monitoring of cellular callers.
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Originally posted 10/27/93 by Bill Sohl in Usenet comp.dcom.telecom:
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>From the {Providence (RI) Journal}, quoted in the {Milwaukee Journal}:
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Cellular Phone call tips police to car burglaries
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Famous last words: 'That cop doesn't even know I'm on the phone.'
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East Providence, R.I. - Police said that a man, talking to his girlfriend on a
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cellular telephone while driving around early Monday, bragged that he had
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looted several parked cars. What Robert Pimental, 22, didn't know, police
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said, is that an officer patrolling nearby happened to be listening in on the
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call on his cruiser's scanner. The monitoring that lead to Pimental's being
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charged with possessing stolen goods was just "one of those coincidences,"
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said Lt. Daniel Evans.
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Patrollman Bruce Atwell was cruising the area, according to Evans, and was
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monitoring a scanner frequency that picks up cellular phone calls. Atwell's
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ears perked up when he head a man tell a woman that he had stolen items from
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several parked cars in Bristol, Evans said. The man also told her he was
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driving along Crescent View Ave. Atwell drove onto the avenue and pulled
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behind a small car whose male driver was talking on a car phone, Evans said.
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And on his scanner, Evans said, Atwell heard the man say there was a police
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cruiser behind him.
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The article goes on to say how he bragged about the cop not knowing he was on
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the phone, was then pulled over, and the loot recovered.
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Someone should tell the officer that it's illegal to monitor those frequences.
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Originally posted by: puma@netcom.com
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Standard Disclaimer- Any opinions, etc. are mine and NOT my employer's.
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----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill
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Sohl (K2UNK) BELLCORE (Bell Communications Research, Inc.) Morristown,
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