Sunday, 10 February 2008

connecticut police sergeant charged



Connecticut Police Sergeant Charged With Computer Crime

Frank Washkuch Jr. writes on SC Magazine US:

A Hartford, Conn., police sergeant has been charged with a computer

crime after he allegedly disclosed information from a national law

enforcement database to a female friend.

Sgt. Reginald Allen, a 17-year veteran of the city's police force,

was arrested Monday and charged with committing a computer crime in

the third degree, a felony, by disclosing information he obtained

from the National Crime Information Center, a network for federal,

state and local law enforcement authorities.

Allen's associate then reportedly used to information to harass her

ex-boyfriend's pregnant girlfriend by leaving messages on her work

and mobile phones and placing a letter in her mailbox. On one

occasion, the woman in possession of the sensitive data claimed to

have friends in the Hartford Police Department, according to

published reports.


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