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Cyber crime stretches local police resources | StarTribune.com
When a woman in Pennsylvania reported that someone was using her credit card to buy pizzas in Forest Lake, police tracked the deliveries to a local apartment.
It seemed like a simple case to solve.
While at the apartment, however, they found substantial evidence of Internet identity theft. The investigation quickly ballooned to involve a five-state crime ring that had victimized hundreds of people. Forest Lake police became immersed in more than 400 hours of detective work, and now several local, state and federal law enforcement agencies are working together to find all the crooks.
"Law enforcement has taken a whole new turn, where we're investigating more identity theft and computer-related crimes," said Forest Lake Police Chief Rick Peterson, who cited the case as a textbook example of what Minnesota's law enforcement agencies face these days. "Those crimes have just really increased, not only in Forest Lake but all over out there."
When a woman in Pennsylvania reported that someone was using her credit card to buy pizzas in Forest Lake, police tracked the deliveries to a local apartment.
It seemed like a simple case to solve.
While at the apartment, however, they found substantial evidence of Internet identity theft. The investigation quickly ballooned to involve a five-state crime ring that had victimized hundreds of people. Forest Lake police became immersed in more than 400 hours of detective work, and now several local, state and federal law enforcement agencies are working together to find all the crooks.
"Law enforcement has taken a whole new turn, where we're investigating more identity theft and computer-related crimes," said Forest Lake Police Chief Rick Peterson, who cited the case as a textbook example of what Minnesota's law enforcement agencies face these days. "Those crimes have just really increased, not only in Forest Lake but all over out there."
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened."
--Alexander Graham Bell,
American inventor
--Alexander Graham Bell,
American inventor