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...officer filed a report of past theft of a computer game from Adams House...
...Hong Kong government charged 34-year-old Kenneth Kin-Yuen Fung, who is also known as Kenneth Chi-Keung Fung and Edward Fong, with 12 counts of theft and seven counts of false accounting records, according to documents from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston...
...officer was sent to Langdell Library to investigate multiple theft reports. A search of the area failed to locate the suspect, who was described as a 35-year-old, 5 foot 4 inch, black female wearing a dark jacket and dark colored knit...
What's the best way to disable a stolen phone? At present, a victim of cell-phone theft contacts the operating network to block the subscriber identity module, or sim card, to prevent further calls from that number. The handset, however, will remain operational if a new sim card is inserted. So current attempts to combat the use of stolen cell phones are also focusing on the handset's IMEI, or international mobile equipment identifier, an individual serial number for each phone that is transmitted when a call is made from that handset. Mobile phone operators could pool information...
...spite of initial resistance, operators in some countries are coming together to pool information on IMEIs. In France, the country's three main operators have announced they will create a single database for serial numbers by June in order to deter theft. In Britain, BT Cellnet and Vodafone agreed to join other national operators in utilizing IMEI-based security measures: over the next six weeks, the U.K.'s four major networks will start to exchange the IMEIs of stolen handsets. Ministers are also to introduce laws making it an offence to reconfigure phones...