btlgrl Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 (edited) Talk about an idiot!! (Article is 2 posts down) This moron should know by now that Big Brother is watching! Glad he's out of the picture, but I have a feeling he's not done yet. Edited August 25, 2004 by btlgrl Link to comment
geograss Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 That link took me to a registration page I bet the Providence Journal is a dandy newspaper, but probably not dandy enough to make me fill out a long and tedious registration form. Link to comment
btlgrl Posted August 25, 2004 Author Share Posted August 25, 2004 Sorry, here's the article: Suspected 'Porno Man' 911 caller arrested A 41-year-old Cranston man is charged with making more than 1,800 crank or obscene phone calls. 01:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 BY CATHLEEN F. CROWLEY Journal Staff Writer State police used Global Positioning System technology embedded in a cell phone to track down and arrest a Cranston man suspected of making 1,800 obscene phone calls to 911 operators over the past two months. The police arrested Kenneth D. Iasimone, 41, of 210 Hazelton St., who was dubbed "Porno Man" at the Emergency 911 headquarters. Iasimone allegedly called 911 on a cell phone he had bought using the fake name Tony Soprano. Raymond LaBelle, executive director of Rhode Island's E-911, said the man sometimes called 4 to 10 times a day. "He would call and use some dirty language and play a pornographic film in the background," LaBelle said. "The telecommunications operator who took the call would have to listen to the grunting and groaning and whatever else that goes along with that entertainment." Iasimone usually targeted female 911 operators, LaBelle said. If a male answered, he would often hang up. Harassing and obscene callers are not new to 911 operators. "We are here 24/7/365. If you want an audience, there is always someone here to answer the phone," LaBelle said. But until two years ago, there was no way to track down cell phone callers. Two years ago, cell phone companies began embedding global positioning technology into phones. When a 911 operator receives a call from a phone with a GPS chip, a map appears on the operator's computer screen showing a precise location of the caller. In towns and cities that have been "geomapped," the operators see an exact address and sometimes a photo of the building. Cranston has not been geomapped yet. Trooper John Charbonneau's investigation led him to a local cell-phone company where Iasimmone had purchased a cell phone with prepaid minutes in May using the name of the fictional mob boss of The Sopranos. The cell phone had a GPS chip that helped the police focus on the neighborhood where most of the obscene phone calls originated. Iasimone was arrested Monday and charged with more than 1,800 counts of crank or obscene telephone calls. He was released on $2,500 cash bail yesterday. Iasimone has been arrested before. In 1999, he was arrested for violation of a no-contact order in Cranston and domestic assault and crank/obscene calls in Coventry. On both occasions, he pleaded no contest and was sentenced to probation and to attend a special program. LaBelle said the penalty for making a false call to 911 is punishable by a $1,000 fine and/or a year in jail. LaBelle estimates that Porno Man's calls took about 90 hours of operators' time. The police arrested another obscene 911 caller back in June, but LaBelle said that one wasn't as prolific as Porno Man. The other man only called a few hundred times. Link to comment
+AtoZ Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 What does this Have to do with GEOCACHING. NOTHING I can see other then Geocachers use GPSr and the cell phone had a GPSr built into it. So why bother posing this???????????????????? Cheers Link to comment
Pipanella Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 Oh geez, lighten up. I thought it was interesting. Link to comment
btlgrl Posted August 25, 2004 Author Share Posted August 25, 2004 Geez, only thought it was interesting how far GPS technology has come. If there's anything that can be said in addition, it is great that law enforcement has increased their use of the technology. Who knows when one of us may need their help someday, and our cell phone/GPS may save us. My apologies to anyone who doesn't like the post. Just a little fun!! Link to comment
thorin Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 How does that article relate in anyway whatsoever to your thread subject? Link to comment
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