Safeway Club Card Leads to Bogus Arson Arrest
Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/29/030223 Posted by: michael, on 2005-01-29 11:03:00 from the if-you're-innocent-you-have-nothing-to-fear dept. [1]Richard M. Smith writes Tukwila, Washington firefighter, Philip Scott Lyons found out the hard way that supermarket loyalty cards come with a huge price. Lyons was arrested last August and charged with attempted arson. Police alleged at the time that Lyons tried to set fire to his own house while his wife and children were inside. According to [2]KOMO-TV and the Seattle Times, a major piece of evidence used against Lyons in his arrest [3]was the record of his supermarket purchases that he made with his Safeway Club Card. Police investigators had discovered that his Club Card was used to buy fire starters of the same type used in the arson attempt. For Lyons, the story did have a [4]happy ending. All charges were dropped against him in January 2005 because another person stepped forward saying he or she set the fire and not Lyons. References 1. http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com/ 2. http://www.komotv.com/stories/32785.htm 3. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002055245_arson06m.html 4. http://heraldnet.com/stories/05/01/28/100loc_arson001.cfm - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a __ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net pgpMnonZvd6iI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Safeway Club Card Leads to Bogus Arson Arrest
On 2005-01-29T13:16:24+0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/29/030223 Posted by: michael, on 2005-01-29 11:03:00 from the if-you're-innocent-you-have-nothing-to-fear dept. [1]Richard M. Smith writes Tukwila, Washington firefighter, Philip Scott Lyons found out the hard way that supermarket loyalty cards come with a huge price. Lyons was arrested last August and charged with They do not verify the information you give them. They take the sheet of paper and give you a card. Make up a name, address, and phone number. If they ever discover the fraud (not in a legal sense) and disable the card, so what? Get another one. -- War is the father and king of all, and some he shows as gods, others as men; some he makes slaves, others free. --Heraclitus (Kahn.83/D-K.53)
