Connecticut Rapper Arrested for Running Drug Factory in His Home

An aspiring rapper from Connecticut is in big trouble with police after drugs and a gun were found in his home.

According to local reports, 31-year-old Victor Martinez, who goes by the rap alias Sose Da Great, was arrested Tuesday (Feb. 17) and charged with operating a drug factory, possession of narcotics with intent to sell, possession of narcotics with intent to sell within 1,500 feet of a school, criminal possession of a firearm and other weapons charges and risk of injury to a minor.

Police found 300 bags of heroin and crack in his home, as well as three quarters of a pound of uncut heroin. Martinez allegedly hid some of the drugs right next to his daughter’s bed in a baby wipes box.

Martinez is facing some major time if convicted, which would be a shame because he does possess some rap skills.

The Bridgeport, Conn. rhymer’s “86 Dat” video is an East Coast-flavored track that shows some of his potential. “Swerving through my city, eyes cherry red / Pull up to my backyard where I bury bread / These n—– want to kill me but I’m barely dead, without out gun n—- sweeter than some cherry heads / Confidence, I got a lot of that / Feds be on my head like a stocking-cap,” he raps.

Martinez has also been accused of having local gang ties, and he’s previously been convicted on narcotics charges. This current arrest was so big, however, that it drew the attention of the city’s mayor.

“Today, the city is a safer place after police took an illegal gun and a criminal, who hid narcotics by his daughter’s bed, off the streets,” said Mayor Bill Finch.

He is currently being held on $250,000 bond.

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Dutch Man Said to Be Arrested in Powerful Internet Attack

While the authorities did not give the full name of the man in a statement published on a Dutch government Web site, they identified him as “S.K.” A source close to the investigation, who was not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed that the arrested man was Sven Olaf Kamphuis, a 35-year-old Dutch man who has been the spokesman of a group that was protesting a European antispam group’s tactics.

Spanish police arrested the man on Thursday at his home in Barcelona, at the request of the Dutch police, and seized his computers and mobile phones. He is expected to be sent to the Netherlands. Wim de Bruin, a spokesman for Dutch national prosecutor’s office, said “S.K.” was suspected of playing a role in a wave of attacks last month.

His arrest came after an investigation by authorities in the Netherlands and other European countries into Mr. Kamphuis’s involvement in one of the largest attacks on the Internet. Mr. Kamphuis has been suspected of starting a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack against Spamhaus, the antispam group. Such attacks are a criminal offense under Dutch law.

Mr. Kamphuis calls himself the “minister of telecommunications and foreign affairs for the Republic of CyberBunker.” But many consider him to be the Prince of Spam. He runs CB3ROB, an Internet service provider, and CyberBunker, a Web hosting company that in the past has hosted sites like WikiLeaks and the Pirate Bay, a site accused of abetting digital content piracy.

Antispam groups say they believe CyberBunker acts as a conduit for vast amounts of spam. Last month, Spamhaus, an antispam group based in Geneva, added CyberBunker to its blacklist, which is used by major e-mail providers to block spam.

In the days and weeks after the blacklisting, Spamhaus was targeted with an DDoS attack, which flooded the site with traffic until it fell offline.

After Spamhaus hired a Silicon Valley Internet security firm, CloudFlare, to defend against the attack, the attackers turned their ire on CloudFlare. When efforts to bring down CloudFlare were unsuccessful, the attackers hit back with a far more powerful strike that exploited the Internet’s core infrastructure, called the Domain Name System, or D.N.S.

Their attack quickly reached previously unknown magnitudes, growing to a data stream of 300 billion bits per second, which resulted in slowing Internet traffic for millions of Internet users around the world.

Mr. Kamphuis has denied his role in the attack and said he was only a spokesman for Stophaus, a loose organization set up to take down Spamhaus. Asked about his involvement in the attacks last month, Mr. Kamphuis told The New York Times, “We are aware that this is one of the largest DDoS attacks the world has seen so far, yes.”

But through his Facebook page, Mr. Kamphuis has actively called on hackers to take Spamhaus offline.

“Yo anons, we could use a little help in shutting down illegal slander and blackmail censorship project ‘spamhaus.org,’ which thinks it can dictate its views on what should and should not be on the Internet,” he said on Facebook on March 23.

Dutch prosecutors singled out Mr. Kamphuis because of his vocal role. Greenhost, a Dutch Internet hosting service, said in a blog post that it had found CB3ROB’s digital fingerprints while studying the attack traffic directed at Spamhaus.

Mr. Kamphuis’s arrest in Barcelona was made through the European Union’s judicial collaboration unit, Eurojust.

An anonymous statement was posted to Pastebin, a Web forum for hackers, on Friday, proclaiming Mr. Kamphuis’s innocence and threatening another round of attacks if he is not released. “We demand u to release Sven or we will indeed start the biggest attack u humans have ever experienced toward The Internet, and yourself,” the hacker wrote.

Eric Pfanner contributed reporting.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: April 26, 2013

An earlier version of the Web summary on this article misstated who had arrested a man believed to be connected to an online attack. Dutch authorities announced the development, but it was Spanish police who made the arrest, they said, not the Dutch.

Katt Williams Arrested Again….DAMNNN!!….

Comedian Katt Williams cannot avoid legal troubles. Williams was arrested for assault in Oakland last night (November 14). The incident occurred at a club named Kimballs Carnival, which is in East Oakland. Police were called to the scene and arrested Katt Williams, although he has yet to be officially charged. The incident is one in a string of events involving Katt Williams over the past 30 days. In October, Katt Williams was arrested for pulling a gun on actor Faizon Love in Hollywood, while his assistant filed a $5 million lawsuit against him, claiming he assaulted her and punched her in the face on October 6.

DealBook: Man Claiming Facebook Ownership Arrested on Fraud Charges

John Anderson/Wellsville Daily ReporterPaul Ceglia, who claimed he owned half of Facebook, at home in 2010.

In 2010, a New York entrepreneur made an explosive legal claim: An agreement that he had with Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, entitled him to a major stake in the social-networking giant.

Mr. Zuckerberg staunchly denied the allegation, and his lawyers insisted that the entrepreneur, Paul Ceglia, was a scam artist.

On Friday, federal authorities sided with Mr. Zuckerberg, arresting Mr. Ceglia and charging him with a multibillion dollar scheme to defraud Facebook.

Prosecutors say that Mr. Ceglia, 39, of Wellsville, N.Y., filed a sham federal lawsuit claiming to have been promised a 50 percent share of Facebook in 2003, and then doctored, fabricated and destroyed evidence to support his allegations.

“Ceglia’s alleged conduct not only constitutes a massive fraud attempt, but also an attempted corruption of our legal system through the manufacture of false evidence,” said Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan. “Dressing up a fraud as a lawsuit does not immunize you from prosecution.”

Gonzalo Fuentes/ReutersMark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook.

Mr. Ceglia is expected to make an appearance in federal court in Buffalo on Friday afternoon. His lawyer, Dean Boland, did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.

The improbable claims made by Mr. Ceglia received outsized attention in part because it came at around the same time as the release of “The Social Network,” the Academy Award-winning film that told the tale of Mr. Zuckerberg’s legal battle with his Harvard schoolmates, the Winklevoss twins, over the origins of Facebook. Mr. Zuckerberg paid the Winklevosses at least $65 million to settle their case.

Since the lawsuit was first filed, Facebook’s lawyers have raised questions about Mr. Ceglia’s credibility. In 1997, he pleaded guilty to possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms. And in 2010, the New York State attorney general criminally charged him with defrauding customers in a now-defunct wood pellet manufacturing business that he had run with his wife.

Questions are now also being raised about the lawyers that represented Mr. Ceglia in his lawsuit.

In his original complaint, filed in 2010, Mr. Ceglia was represented by Paul Argentieri, a sole practitioner in upstate New York. An amended lawsuit was filed in April 2011 by Robert W. Brownlie of DLA Piper, the world’s largest law firm, and Dennis C. Vacco, a former New York attorney general now in private practice at Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman in Buffalo.

In 2011, Mr. Brownlie of DLA Piper declined a request by The New York Times to produce the original documents backing his client’s legal claims. “That will come out during the course of litigation,” Mr. Brownlie said. “Anyone who claims this case is fraudulent and brought by a scam artist will come to regret those claims.”

Yet court records indicate that another law firm, Kasowitz Benson Friedman & Torres, had been hired by Mr. Ceglia before DLA Piper and Lippes Mathias becoming involved. Kasowitz Benson withdrew from the case and put DLA Piper and Lippes Mathias on notice that it had determined that the purported contract was a fraud.

Mr. Brownlie and Mr. Vacco later withdrew from the case. They did not return calls and e-mails seeking comment.

Mr. Ceglia’s alleged plot dates back to 2003, when Mr. Zuckerberg was a student at Harvard University. Mr. Ceglia had placed an advertisement on Craigslist looking for a programmer for an Internet business he was trying to get off the ground. Mr. Zuckerberg responded to the ad, and Mr. Ceglia agreed to pay him $1,000 for his work.

Months later, in his college dorm room, Mr. Zuckerberg started a business called Facebook.

Mr. Zuckerberg did not hear from Mr. Ceglia again until 2010, when he was served with a complaint that claimed Mr. Ceglia was entitled to a substantial ownership stake in Facebook.

According to the lawsuit, Mr. Zuckerberg had promised him a substantial interest in either “The Face Book” or “The Page Book.” Attached to the legal papers was a contract that contained language giving Mr. Ceglia an interest in Mr. Zuckerberg’s start-up. The filing also included e-mail exchanges between Mr. Ceglia and Mr. Zuckerberg that purported to show their collaboration on ideas for the social network business.

Federal prosecutors say that Mr. Ceglia’s claims were entirely false. Government investigators searched Mr. Ceglia’s hard drive and discovered the original contract, which had no reference to Facebook. And Harvard’s e-mail servers had no record of the supposed e-mails.

Facebook’s lawyers at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher commended the Justice Department for filing criminal charges and, in statement, indicated that it would pursue possible claims against the lawyers that represented Mr. Ceglia.

“Ceglia used the federal court system to perpetuate his fraud and will now be held accountable for his criminal scheme,” said Orin Snyder, a partner at Gibson Dunn. “Facebook also intends to hold accountable all of those who assisted Ceglia in this outrageous fraud.”

Man Shooting At 2 College Students In Texas

Gunman opens fire at 2 college students a car behind a Wendy's restaurant near 6th street in Austin, Texas. Update: Two UT college students in the car that drove got into an accident with the gang members in the silver honda.They both stopped to exchange insurance infomation. The gang member punched one of the students in the gold chrysler, grabbed a gun and start shooting as the UT students drove away fearing for their life. The police found him the next day arrested him and confiscated his gun.

Win a Walk-On Role in Arrested Development

Listen up, Bluthusiasts! Netflix and the producers of Arrested Development are awarding six walk-on roles for dedicated fans to appear in the upcoming fourth season of the show.

Starting today, fans in the U.S. can enter for a chance to win by creating an original piece of Arrested Development content. Entries could include video (less than 2 minutes long), a photo, original artwork, or anything else you can cook up. Winning entries will be chosen by the cast and producers on the basis of "creativity, distinctiveness and relevance to the show."

Submissions can be uploaded directly to Twitter, Instagram or Tumblr, with the hashtag #BluthWalkOn, or (for the non-social media savvy) you can enter online directly at YoureGonnaGetSomeWalkOns.com.

"The Bluths have walked on so many people we thought it was only fair to let a few fans walk on them," said series creator Mitchell Hurwitz, adding, "Come see behind-the-scenes and for God's sake, please don't touch anything!"

Contest ends Tuesday, October 16, 2012. Arrested Development: Season 4 hits Netflix in spring 2013.

Max Nicholson is a writer for IGN, and he desperately seeks your approval. Show him some love on Twitter and IGN.

Joe Jackson Almost Arrested in Vegas — NOT Ready for His Close-Up

Joe Jackson
NOT Ready for Close-Up
... Almost Arrested You would think Joe Jackson would be flattered when anyone wanted to take a picture of him ... but he flipped out when a Vegas tourist tried photographing him, and it almost landed the famous dad in the pokey.

Here's the low down.  Joe was at The Palms Thursday when a hotel guest recognized the famous dad and aimed his camera in Joe's direction.  Jackson allegedly went ballistic, screaming "Don't take pictures of me!"  The guest claims Joe lunged at him, making contact.

Joe almost got more publicity than the time he announced he signed a new rap artist days after Michael died ... because the guest called security and demanded to get Vegas cops involved.

But Joe got a reprieve ... by the time cops arrived the guest cooled down and decided not to press charges.

But here's the thing.  We don't think the guest got his picture, so here you go

 

DealBook: Ex-Goldman Programmer Is Arrested Again

John Marshall Mantel for The New York TimesSergey Aleynikov, left, with his lawyer, Kevin Marino, leaving the Manhattan Criminal Court on Thursday.

The legal odyssey of a former Goldman Sachs programmer, Sergey Aleynikov, took a surprising turn on Thursday when the Manhattan district attorney charged him with state crimes.

Mr. Aleynikov was charged in state court less than six months after a federal appeals court overturned his conviction on federal criminal charges that he stole secret source code from Goldman’s computers.

While the case involved a relatively low-level ex-employee at a financial firm, the government has taken a particularly hard line. The district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., and Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, have made the prosecution of corporate espionage and high-tech theft a top priority.

“This code is so highly confidential that it is known in the industry as the firm’s ‘secret sauce,’ ” Mr. Vance said Thursday in a statement. “Employees who exploit their access to sensitive information should expect to face criminal prosecution in New York State.”

The district attorney charged Mr. Aleynikov with the unlawful use of secret scientific material and duplication of computer-related material, both felonies under New York State law. If convicted, he could serve one to four years in prison.

Federal authorities arrested Mr. Aleynikov three years ago after Goldman reported him to the United States attorney in Manhattan. He was accused of stealing the bank’s highly confidential code for its high-frequency trading operations when he left the bank to join a start-up. A federal jury found him guilty in 2010, but an appeals court reversed his conviction, ruling that prosecutors misapplied the federal corporate espionage laws against him.

It is unusual for federal and state prosecutors to bring criminal charges against a defendant connected to the same set of facts. The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution prohibits double jeopardy, or being tried twice for the same crime, but the “dual sovereignty doctrine” permits different jurisdictions — in this case, the United States and New York State — to pursue charges for the same conduct. For instance, after a state jury cleared a group of Los Angeles police officers of misconduct in the beating of Rodney King, federal prosecutors brought civil rights charges against the officers and secured two guilty verdicts.

Under rare circumstances, however, federal and state prosecutors can be deemed in violation of the Fifth Amendment. A federal appeals court in Manhattan has ruled that single prosecutions by separate sovereign entities may still be an unconstitutional instance of double jeopardy when the prosecutors are acting in concert.

Joshua Dressler, a criminal law professor at Ohio State University, said that it was highly unlikely that the separate federal and state prosecutions in the Aleynikov case would violate the Constitution.

“It’s very rare that double jeopardy would come into play in a case like this,” said Mr. Dressler. “The Supreme Court decided this in 1922 and it’s been settled law ever since.”

Kevin H. Marino, Mr. Aleynikov’s lawyer, emphasized the double jeopardy issue during the arraignment. He accused the Manhattan district attorney’s office of acting as a tool of the Justice Department, saying the new prosecution thus violated the double jeopardy clause. He told Judge Robert M. Mandelbaum that his client was preparing to file malicious prosecution lawsuits against Goldman Sachs and the federal government.

Mr. Marino has always acknowledged that his client made a mistake in violating Goldman’s confidentiality rules, but continues to maintain that he did not commit any crime and that Goldman had suitable remedies in civil court.

Mr. Aleynikov, 42, was arraigned on Thursday afternoon at state criminal court in Lower Manhattan. Wearing a T-shirt, shorts and handcuffs, the bearded Mr. Aleynikov stood silently. Mr. Marino said his client was not guilty and asked the judge to release him on bail pending further proceedings.

Judge Mandelbaum ordered Mr. Aleynikov to forfeit his passports and released him on a $35,000 bond.

“If you’re Sergey Aleynikov you have to be thinking, ‘Why did I ever leave Russia?’ ” Mr. Marino said standing on the courthouse steps on Thursday beside his client, who emigrated to the United States two decades ago.

“But be that as it may, we look forward to vigorously defending him against these charges,” Mr. Marino said.

Some lawyers on Thursday said that they were not surprised that a second set of charges was brought against Mr. Aleynikov. They cited the interest of both Mr. Bharara and Mr. Vance in the area of intellectual property crime. And, because the federal appeals court ruled that the facts in this case did not fit the federal computer theft statutes, it made sense that the state prosecutor would use his own tools to charge Mr. Aleynikov.

“This is an exceptionally justifiable reason for the state prosecutor to use a state law to bring a prosecution,” said Mr. Dressler, the Ohio State professor.

Mr. Marino called the prosecution “fishy.” Standing on the state courthouse steps on Thursday just a few hundred yards from the federal courthouse where Mr. Aleynikov had been tried before, he accused the two offices of colluding against his client.

“It’s hard to imagine that it’s come to this,” said Mr. Marino. “Things don’t work out for the government in the federal case so you go around the corner and charge him in state court.”

After his conviction on federal charges, Mr. Aleynikov served one year of an eight-year sentence in a federal prison in Fort Dix, N.J.

“In prison you learn to appreciate your life day by day,” Mr. Aleynikov said after being set free earlier this year. “Today is a victory, but tomorrow you never know.”

This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: August 11, 2012

An article on Friday about the arrest of a former Goldman Sachs programmer, Sergey Aleynikov, on charges of stealing proprietary trading code misstated the stand of his lawyer, Kevin H. Marino. Mr. Marino maintains that his client did not commit any crime — not that he did commit a crime. The article also referred incorrectly to the federal charges brought against a group of Los Angeles police officers stemming from the beating of Rodney King. They were civil rights charges, not civil charges.