Fugitive's WOW habit leads to arrest

[BonePART]

afasfas
yazik lan adam ahahaha


http://www.gamespot.com/news/6244884.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;1

Blizzard helps US Marshals, Mounties track down wanted drug dealer who played MMORPG while on the run in Canada.

Right now, Alfred Hightower must feel pretty stupid. That's because, after over a year of freedom in Canada, the fugitive drug dealer is now in US custody for one reason: he couldn't stop playing World of Warcraft.

According to an article on the local news site Kokomo Perspective, an arrest warrant was issued in 2007 for Hightower by the Howard County Sheriff's Department. He was wanted on two charges of dealing marijuana and two other charges of dealing unidentified controlled substances. However, deputies could not locate Hightower, who eventually fled to America's neighbor to the north.

Hightower's WOW character Rastlynn.

Last summer, though, Howard County Sheriff's Department deputy Matt Roberson caught a break during an initiative to track down long-wanted fugitives. During the course of interviews, he learned that Hightower was a "regular player" of World of Warcraft, which is developed and published by Irvine, California-based Blizzard Entertainment.

Armed with this information and Hightower's WOW alias of "Rastlynn," Roberson sent Blizzard a subpoena asking for Hightower's location--a subpoena that couldn't be enforced, given that it was in a different state. Several months later, though, the lawman received a welcome surprise--a packet of information on the fugitive's whereabouts, including the IP address from which he was logging onto the WOW servers.

"I did a search off the IP address to locate him," Roberson told Kokomo Perspective. "I got a longitude and latitude. Then I went to Google Earth. It works wonders. It uses longitude and latitude. Boom! I had an address."

The deputy provided said address to the US Marshals, who forwarded it to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The Mounties went on to arrest Hightower in Ottawa, Ontario, and deport him to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he is currently awaiting transfer back to Indiana.

"Roberson did some great work on this deal," said Sheriff Marty Talbert. "This is the first time in my seven years as sheriff that a fugitive was located in Canada."

[dreagloth]

Karakter ismi şahaneymiş.

[BonePART]

ahahahah
ben yeni farketttim
marijuana satmaktan arandigida goz onune alinirsa

[Mortis]

hueuhe ne pis adamlarla oynuomuşuz şu oyunu! xP

[Saeros]

bu devirde blizze bile güvenmicen

[BonePART]

olm popu nasil yakalayamiyolar lan bu sekilde

[mulgear6]

Turk polisiyiz bu adam da suclu desek verirler mi acaba ip adresini lokasyonunu filan :p

[Magnum]

cuomd ya, özet felan koysanız bi de. ya da surayı okuyun deseniz.

[asfaloth]

ulan delirecem cuomd ne demek gördükçe her başlıkta soruyorum

[Absolut]

Pop direk accountu cancel ediyor birazdan.

[Silphatos]

yalan haber bence bu alfred diye drug dealer mı olur mazlum isim ya o, soyad iyi gerçi haytavır

[rahatsiz]

http://www.radikal.com.tr/Radikal.aspx?aType=RadikalHaberDetay&ArticleID=972540&Date=06.01.2010&CategoryID=105

said:

Uyuşturucu bulundurma ve satma suçlarından hakkında 2007 yılında tutuklama kararı çıkan Alfred Hightower adlı bir Amerikalı uzun süren takibe rağmen yakalanamadı ve ülkeyi terk etmeyi başardı. Takibi sürdüren polis Hightower’ın sıkı bir WoW oyuncusu olduğu bilgisine ulaştı. Kendisi de aynı oyunu oynayan Müfettiş Matt Roberson oyunun sanal dünyasında Hightower’ın peşine düştü.
Oyun içinde suçluyu bulan polis memuru takma adını oyunun üretici ve yöneticisi Blizzard firmasına verdiğinde kısa sürede aradığı kişinin IP numarasını, kullanıcı adı ve şifresini ve bağlandığı ülkeyi öğrendi.
Kanada’da tutuklanan Alfred Hightower cezasını çekmek üzere ABD’deki bir hapishaneye yerleştirildi.

[Phae]

Abi... ben bu adamı gördüm AV'de.

[Kane&Lynch]

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