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- From: Reprint from Newsbytes (John and Barbara McMullen)
- Subject: SUNDEVIL ARREST ANNOUNCED 4/13/91
- Date: April 3, 1991
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- PHOENIX, ARIZONA, U.S.A., 1991 APR 1(NB) -- The Maricopa County
- Arizona County Attorney's Office has announced the arrest of Baron
- Majette, 19, also known as "Doc Savage", for alleged crimes uncovered
- in the joint federal / state "SunDevil" investigation in progress for
- over a year.
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- Majette is charged with a number of felony crimes including the use
- of a telephone lineman's handset in March 1990 to tap into a Toys 'R
- Us telephone line to set up two conference calls between 15
- participants. According to the charges, each call lasted
- approximately 10 hours and cost $4,000. A spokesperson for the County
- Attorney's office told Newsbytes that a Tucson resident, Anthony
- Nusall, has previously pleaded guilty to being a participant in the
- conference Majette is also accused of illegally accessing TRW's
- credit data base to obtain personal credit information and account
- numbers of persons in the TRW database. He is alleged to have then
- used the information obtained to divert existing account mailings to
- mail drops and post office boxes set up for this purpose. He is also
- alleged to have additional credit cards issued based on the
- information obtained from the database. He is further alleged to have
- obtained cash, goods and services, such as airline tickets, in excess
- of $50,000 by using cards and account information obtained through
- entry into the TRW database.
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- It is further alleged that Majette stole credit cars from U.S. Mail
- boxes and used them to obtain approximately $10,000 worth of cash,
- goods and services.The allegations state that Majette acted either
- alone or as part of a group to perform these actions. A County
- Attorney spokesperson told Newsbytes that further arrests may be
- expected as result of the ongoing investigation.
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- While bail was set on these charges at $4,900. Majette is being held
- on a second warrant for probation violation and cannot be released on
- bail until the probation hearing has been held.
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- Gail H. Thackeray, former Assistant Attorney General for the State of
- Arizona, currently working with Maricopa County on the SunDevil
- cases, told Newsbytes "The SunDevil project was started in response
- to a high level of complaint of communications crimes, credit card
- fraud and other incidents relating to large financial losses. These
- were not cases of persons accessing computers 'just to look around'
- or even cases like the Atlanta 'Legion of Doom' one in which the
- individuals admitted obtaining information through illegal access.
- They are rather cases in which the accused alleged used computers to
- facilitate theft of substantial goods and services."
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- (Barbara E. McMullen & John F. McMullen/19910401)
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