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Monday, August 05, 2013

WRITER CLAIMS ONLINE SEARCHES FOR PRESSURE COOKERS AND BACKPACKS EARNED HER A VISIT FROM THE POLICE (UPDATED WITH STATEMENT FROM NEW YORK AUTHORITIES)

UPDATE 8:00 pm ET – In response to writer Michele Catalano’s article on her encounter with law enforcement officials, New York police released the following statement [emphasis added]:
As a result of numerous media inquiries, received today by the Suffolk County Police Department regarding an internet blog posting, the following statement has been made available.

Suffolk County Criminal Intelligence Detectives received a tip from a Bay Shore based computer company regarding suspicious computer searches conducted by a recently released employee. The former employee’s computer searches took place on this employee’s workplace computer. On that computer, the employee searched the terms “pressure cooker bombs” and “backpacks.”

After interviewing the company representatives, Suffolk County Police Detectives visited the subject’s home to ask about the suspicious internet searches. The incident was investigated by Suffolk County Police Department’s Criminal Intelligence Detectives and was determined to be non-criminal in nature.

Catalano’s original post makes no mention of the searched term “pressure cooker bomb” or the Bay Shore company computer.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

We are all potiential targets for this constitutional abuse of power by the communist whom have inflitrated our GOV..not doing anything wrong now.... just wait your day will come..

Anonymous said...

Just another attention whore looking to be the next "big thing" in the blogosphere.

Go to jail wench.

Anonymous said...

it was a company owned computer. she had no expectation of privacy on her computer searches on company time and equipment.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
it was a company owned computer. she had no expectation of privacy on her computer searches on company time and equipment.

August 5, 2013 at 6:49 PM

Did the company have an expectation of privacy?