Some digital investigations are easier than others. Roughly 22 minutes after 23-year-old Dominyk Antonio Alfonseca robbed a bank in the Town Center of Virginia Beach, police arrested him. They were aided, no doubt, by the fact that Alfonseca used some of his getaway time to post a video of the robbery and a photo of…
An Indiana University staff person was fired from his job as the assistant director for student conduct in the Office of Student Ethics (insert irony-laced joke here). The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) alerted the Bloomington Police Department (BPD) that it had received a tip from Gmail that a possible image of…
Brad Robbert, a former adjunct assistant rofessor of Theater at Tulane University, will go on trial August 3 in Orleans Parish Criminal District on 50 counts that he possessed child pornography and 1 count of possession with intent to distribute. According to his online biography, Robbert also served as operations director for the Tulane University…
High school buddy James Lowder sent me a link to an interesting episode from a late 1970’s radio broadcast by the Sears Radio Theater entitled “The Terrible Dream of Mr. Glitch.” It’s an amusing story built around the efforts of an average man to overcome computer errors that suggest not only that his bank account…
During the civil unrest in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray, the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 34-Maryland Transportation Authority Police posted a photo of a memorandum it received from the Baltimore Police Department warning of possible targeting of police officers by various gangs: Baltimore, Md., April 27, 2015 — The Baltimore Police Department…
Me n my deputy dogg 🔫🌟✨ A photo posted by snoopdogg (@snoopdogg) on Mar 20, 2015 at 11:03am PDT An pretty innocuous photo taken at this year’s South by Southwest music festival has landed a state trooper in hot water. Pictured above is Trooper Billy Spears, who posed for a photo with rapper Snoop Dogg…
If you are of a certain age, you may have heard about the so-called “Mozart Effect,” the idea that playing classical music (particularly any of the music composed by a short, spendthrift Austrian prankster with a fondness for scatalogical humor) is a sure-fire way to boost the intelligence of your unborn child. This idea gained…
A team of researchers has published a paper in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest in which they argue that the vast majority of the so-called educational apps available today are the mental equivalent of junk food. The report, entitled “Putting Education in ‘Educational’ Apps: Lessons From the Science of Learning,” is available…
A 28-year-old former 5th grade teacher at the Graham & Parks School in Cambridge, Mass. was convicted last Wednesday of possessing child pornography, but was acquitted of a more serious production charge. Josh Wairi, who previously taught in the Somerville School District at the high school and the John F. Kennedy Elementary School, was arrested…
What did the staff and administrators in the Jefferson County Public Schools know, and when did they know it? That’s the essence of a lawsuit filed by the father of a 13-year-old boy who was assaulted by a 26-year-old middle school teacher named Jessica Boyer over a 3-month period, from February to April 2013. The…
