Woman Caught Trying To Frame Ex-Boyfriend With Threatening Texts She Wrote Herself
from the yeah,-that's-not-going-to-work dept
All too often, we hear about law enforcement folks complaining about the evils of pre-paid mobile phones, with the idea being that someone (a terrorist?) might use them with no way to track them down. As with the open WiFi bogeyman, it seems that people are ignoring traditional detective-work. Take, for example, this story that reader Stan sent in, of a woman who tried to falsely frame her ex-boyfriend and his sister-in-law by purchasing a pre-paid phone in her sister-in-law's name, sending herself threatening text messages, and then going to the police and accusing the ex- and the sister-in-law of being behind them. While the police did initially arrest the pair, further investigation (by the sister-in-law and ex-) led them to the store where the woman purchased the phone. The salesman there identified the woman as buying it while pretending to be the sister-in-law. Then, the police began investigating where the threatening texts were sent from (I'm assuming they subpoenaed the phone company for tower info), and the location matched with where the text-forging woman was at the time. So, instead the police arrested her and she's now been sentenced to a year in jail.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Her ex-boyfriend and his sister-in-law didn't get jail time from what I read.
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The sister-in-law spent some time in custody, which could mean jail.
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Fun isnt it.
Judges only to take and decide Information..
WHO acknowledged the charges from the Lady, and did the follow thru?
1. take the complaint
2. CHECK the complaint
3. arrest someone..
What happened to #2?
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Police: call CellPhone Company. Who is the person that owns 555-1212
CellPhone Comapny: The name we have in our system for that number is SisterInLaw.
Police: Thank You
move to Step 3.
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2. CHECK the complaint
3. arrest someone.."
4. ????
5. PROFIT! (For the court system and lawyers)
Holy shit! This time it actually worked!
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Evidence
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The phone records would have indicated that the phone was the sister-in-law's.
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self service investigation
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Dumb criminals are dumb.
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She should have used an anonymous telephone. Then stalked the victim and sent herself text messages from locations where the victims where known to have been. The police connects the dots and there you are. Oh and dispose of the phone permanently afterwards. And never have it on between texts.
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