Ex-employee charged in Web assault
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From the National Desk
Published 3/28/2002 8:25 PM
LOS ANGELES, March 28 (UPI) -- An ex-employee of Global
Crossing has been arrested for allegedly
posting Internet threats against his former colleagues
and Los Angeles police officers, as well as posting
personal information that made hundreds of individuals
vulnerable to identity theft.
Steven William Sutcliffe, 41, was arrested in
Manchester, N.H., on charges of posting threats on the
Internet and transferring the identification another
person with the intent of committing identity theft.
Sutcliffe was ordered held without bail in Manchester
pending a detention hearing later Thursday.
The FBI said that in late 2001, Sutcliffe, a former
employee of Global Crossing Development Corp.'s Beverly
Hills office, allegedly posted Social Security numbers,
dates of birth and home addresses on a Web site
along with the names of spouses and even photographs of
children and copies of signatures.
"At least one Global Crossing employee was the victim
of identity theft after this information was made
public," the FBI said in a release.
Sutcliffe allegedly posted threats against individual
employees on his Web site. He also allegedly
maintained a separate site in which he posted threats
against LAPD officers and "offered general monetary
rewards for the killing of law enforcement officers,
including bonuses based upon the manner in which the
officer was killed."
An FBI agent said in an affidavit attached to the
complaint that Global Crossing hired Sutcliffe in November
2000 as a contract employee and later as a full-time
network technician, and he worked on computers that
contained personnel information. He was fired in
September 2001 after Global Crossing discovered that he
had not revealed a prior criminal conviction on his job
application.
Global Crossing, a multi-national company involved in
fiber-optic communications networks, attempted to
serve Sutcliffe with a temporary restraining order and
preliminary injunction to force him to remove the
personal information from the evilgx.com Web site. The
FBI said Sutcliffe allegedly responded by posting
the process server's picture on the site along with
threats to "personally send you back to the hell from
where you came."
Sutcliffe's beef with the LAPD apparently began in 1996
when two officers arrested him on an unspecified
warrant and again in 1997 when he allegedly interfered
with them as they contacted a suspect on the street
about an unrelated matter.
Sutcliffe allegedly vented his anger at the officers on
a Website called killercop.com and posted one of the
officers' badge number, work telephone number and the
area she patrolled.
