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From the daily archives: Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Buckeye Lake Beacon – Police activity reports
Millersport
• July 1: Police stopped a driver for going 46 mph in a 25 mph zone on Chautauqua Boulevard. Police then learned that the driver was under 11 suspensions and that his driver’s license wasn’t valid.
• July 3: Police warned a driver for a traffic violation on Lancaster Street near Terrace.
• July 3: Police assisted the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office with a fight in progress call in Fairfield Beach.
• July 3: Police found an open door at the Millersport High School. Everything checked OK.
• July 4: A motorist was warned for parking on the Lancaster Street bridge at Canal Street. Police will be enforcing the no parking signs at the bridge as it is not designed for the stationary weight of parked vehicles. Parking is also prohibited by state law.
• July 4: Police responded to a report of a domestic dispute on Lancaster Street.
• July 4: Police issued two warnings and wrote one citation for speed between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m. The citation was for traveling 39 mph in a 25 mph zone.
• July 5: Police checked out a suspicious person and vehicle on Chautauqua Boulevard. Everything checked OK.
A pattern emerges. Hello? Everything always checks OK.
Tonight I shall sneak downtown and park on the bridge. Mmwaahaha!
Customers furious in Day 2 of IndyMac fed takeover
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Police ordered angry customers lined up outside an IndyMac Bank branch to remain calm or face arrest Tuesday as they tried to pull their money on the second day of the failed institution’s federal takeover.
At least three police squad cars showed up early Tuesday as tensions rose outside the San Fernando Valley branch of Pasadena-based IndyMac.
Uncle Billy, meanwhile, has moved his assets offshore and is buying a nice compound in Costa Rica.
S.F. officials locked out of computer network
SAN FRANCISCO — A disgruntled city computer engineer has virtually commandeered San Francisco’s new multimillion-dollar computer network, altering it to deny access to top administrators even as he sits in jail on $5 million bail, authorities said Monday.
Terry Childs, a 43-year-old computer network administrator who lives in Pittsburg, has been charged with four counts of computer tampering and is scheduled to be arraigned today.
Prosecutors say Childs, who works in the Department of Technology at a base salary of just over $126,000, tampered with the city’s new FiberWAN (Wide Area Network), where records such as officials’ e-mails, city payroll files, confidential law enforcement documents and jail inmates’ bookings are stored.
Childs created a password that granted him exclusive access to the system, authorities said. He initially gave pass codes to police, but they didn’t work. When pressed, Childs refused to divulge the real code even when threatened with arrest, they said.
He was taken into custody Sunday. City officials said late Monday that they had made some headway into cracking his pass codes and regaining access to the system.
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Officials also said they feared that although Childs is in jail, he may have enabled a third party to access the system by telephone or other electronic device and order the destruction of hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents.
Authorities have searched Childs’ home and car for a device that could be used in such an attack, but so far no such evidence has been found.
As part of his alleged sabotage, Childs engineered a tracing system to monitor what other administrators were saying and doing related to his personnel case, law enforcement officials said.
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Childs, according to payroll records, earned $126,735 in base pay in 2007 and additional premium pay of $22,534, for a total of $149,269. Vinson said the extra money was apparently compensation for being on-call as a trouble-shooter.
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