"gw" wrote in message
om...
imagine that.....another dougie anti type jamming police freqs....man
where do hammies get these guys???? makes me want to go down and
join up......no doubt about it....j junior......


Broadcast of porn tipped police in emergency channels case
11:14 PM 11/14/03
Barry Adams Police reporter

The man accused of interfering with emergency radio channels in
Madison over the past nine months may have broadcast audio from
pornographic movies over police airwaves, officials and the man's
roommate said Friday.

Police say the porn, which aired Tuesday night, let them know the
interference was intentional.

Rajib K. Mitra, 25, a UW-Madison student, has a criminal past
involving computer hacking.

Mitra is a "ham" radio operator with a degree in computer science. He
was arrested Thursday after police searched his near West Side
apartment.

According to a search warrant, police were looking for radio and
computer equipment and pornographic audio and video.

Mitra was in the Dane County Jail Friday. He has been tentatively
charged with 16 felony counts of computer crimes and could also face
federal charges, according to police.

Police hope that Mitra's arrest ends months of sporadic, frustrating
interference with their radios.

The problems first surfaced in the State Street area and later arose
in a one-mile radius of the intersection of North Orchard and Regent
streets. Mitra lived in an apartment on North Orchard.

A motive has not been determined, said Detective Cynthia Murphy. The
interference usually left radios dead for stretches from a few seconds
to about 20 minutes but never on a regular schedule, adding to the
difficulty of tracking the source, said Al Schwoegler, the city's
communication operations supervisor.

The interference came at times when police were dispatched on calls,
meaning the person jamming may have monitored police radio traffic.

"He had to be knowledgeable about the system," said Schwoegler. "When
we changed frequencies the jammer changed frequencies."

Police worked with the radio manufacturer Motorola, area cellular
phone companies, UW-Madison officials and amateur radio operators.

Ralph Pellegrini, 45, of Sun Prairie, is a ham operator and technician
for Sprint PCS who assisted police. He said a cellular site near State
Street was among the things first considered as a source of the
interference.

Officials probably found the source of the signal by using a device
that can detect signals from one direction, Pellegrini said. The
signal gets stronger the closer you get to the source. Buildings and
the geography likely complicated the search. "The city radio guys have
to get really a lot of credit because they were working in an
environment that's pretty bad," he said.

In most of the incidents, radios appeared to malfunction. But on
Halloween night, a steady tone was broadcast at various times until
about 4 a.m. Nov. 1.

Police near State Street patrolling the massive celebrations worked on
a different frequency, but other officers, paramedics and firefighters
in a one-mile radius of Mitra's apartment experienced problems. It
forced officials to keep switching channels.

"It was a cat and mouse game. We moved and he moved," Schwoegler said.
"Of all of the nights to do this."

On Tuesday night, pornographic audio was broadcast 13 times in two- to
three-second bursts for about 20 minutes, Schwoegler said.

In August, Mitra moved from North Lake Street to an apartment at 10 N.
Orchard St., Schwoegler said.

His roommate, Lisa Albright, 21, a UW-Madison senior from Monroe, said
she met Mitra in 2001 through her sister, who had met him on the
Internet.

Albright said Mitra rarely spoke to her, stayed in his room, which was
filled with computer equipment, and seemed to have few friends.
Albright said Mitra met his girlfriend from Stevens Point on the
Internet.

On Thursday, Albright was doing an experiment in a bacteriology class
when she was pulled from class by two plainclothes investigators. She
was questioned by police and the FBI for four hours.

"I had no idea what was going on. They just said something serious had
happened," Albright said. "By the end of it I was bawling."

Besides tearing apart Mitra's small bedroom, they also searched
Albright's bedroom and car, took her computer and videotapes.

"They just couldn't believe I lived with him and didn't know
anything," said Albright. "It's just unreal."

Rebecca Truszynski, 21, lives next door. On Thursday police were in
the ceiling looking for wires that may have led to a transmitter on
the roof.

"It's kind of creepy. The whole time the police were here it was a
weird, eerie feeling," she said.

Well he deserves whatever they dish out to him.
Jamming the police bands could cause great injury
or death. But on another note, because what he did,
doesn't mean that all Ham's are like him Doug or
George, they are just losers, with no life really.

Landshark


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