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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 17:54:07 EDT
From: <Nigel.Allen@LAMBADA.OIT.UNC.EDU>
Subject: File 8--Police Charge Toronto Teenager in 911 Case
Here is a press release that I received from the Metropolitan Toronto
Police. The Toronto Star ran a story (based on the press release) on
its front page today.
1992 October 06, 1950 hours
Teenage Computer Hacker Nabbed by Police
Detectives from the Major Crime Squad at Police Headquarters have
arrested a 15-year-old North York boy and charged him with a number of
computer-related crimes. Investigations have revealed that on some
occasions his pranks paralyzed the Metropolitan Toronto 911 emergency
telephone system.
Last July, a young man called the 911 emergency number from a
location in the west end of Metropolitan Toronto and reported a number
of medical emergencies which caused units from the Metropolitan
Toronto Police, ambulance services and local fire departments to
respond. All of these calls were determined to be false.
On one occasion, he totally monopolized the 911 system and rendered
it inoperable thereby denying citizens access to the 911 lifeline
throughout the Metropolitan Toronto area.
Bell Canada security officers assisted police in their search for the
source of the calls. Acting on a Criminal Code search warrant, police
today entered a North York home, seized a quantity of computers and
arrested a teen-age boy.
He is to appear in Youth Court, 47 Sheppard Avenue East, North York,
Friday, November 6, 1992, charged with theft of telecommunications, 24
counts of mischief and 10 counts of convey false message.
Investigations are continuing.
(end of press release)
Note from NDA: More information may be available from the public affairs
office of the Metropolitan Toronto Police at (416) 324-2222 or from
Detective W. Johnston of the Major Crime Squad at (416) 324-6245.
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