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Red Deer RCMP seize loaded guns and body armour from two stolen vehicles

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Red Deer RCMP arrest two people in stolen vehicles

Early Wednesday morning, Red Deer RCMP responded to a report of two suspicious vehicles in Highland Green.

At approximately 12:30 a.m. on Feb.19, RCMP located two stolen vehicles parked together on a residential street.  A male and female were each behind a wheel and were arrested without incident.

Loaded handguns, body armour, weapons, drugs and other stolen property were seized from the vehicles.

Jared Michael Lee Mcleod, 26, faces 33 firearms and weapons related criminal code charges including possession of firearm in motor vehicle as well as charges under the Body Armour Control Act.

Sarah Dawn Sheptycki, 27, faces eight criminal code charges related to firearms possession and stolen property. Both individuals remain in police custody with Mcleod scheduled for court on Mar. 4 and Sheptycki scheduled for court Feb. 21.

Red Deer RCMP wishes to thank the public for reporting suspicious activity to police. To report suspicious behaviour or activity in your neighbourhood, call Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. If you want to remain anonymous, you can contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), online at www.P3Tips.com or by using the “P3 Tips” app available through the Apple App or Google Play Store

 

Jared McLeod also appears in a release from RCMP from Feb 10 / 2016

Wanted man arrested after ramming police cruisers in stolen truck

February 10, 2016 10:49 AM

Red Deer, Alberta – A 22 year old Red Deer man was arrested seven days after he fled from the Red Deer RCMP in a stolen truck, having rammed two police vehicles, a garbage truck and two civilian vehicles.

On February 2 at approximately 4 pm, Red Deer RCMP responded to a report of a suspicious truck in a parking lot at 60 Street and 51 Avenue. RCMP confirmed the truck had been stolen out of Red Deer the day before. Police laid two tire deflation devices at the parking lot exit before approaching the parked truck, which then accelerated toward the police officers, narrowly missing striking them. The truck drove over the tire deflation devices then turned toward the police cruisers, ramming two of them and a waste disposal truck that was also in the parking lot.

The truck fled east on 60 Street then north onto 50 Avenue, driving on two flattened tires. The driver refused to stop for police, running a red light at 61 Street and colliding with two civilian vehicles that were stopped at the light. Police did not initiate a pursuit for public safety reasons. Fortunately, no one was injured in this series of collisions and near-collisions.

The stolen Ford F350 was located abandoned a short time later in an alley near Newton Crescent. However, RCMP identified the driver of the truck almost immediately in the course of their investigation and issued multiple warrants for his arrest. Edmonton Police Service arrested him on February 9.

22 year old Jared Michael Lee McLeod of Red Deer faces the following charges:

  • Criminal Code 270.01(a) – Assault on police officer with weapon
  • Criminal Code 430(3) – Mischief over $5,000 X 2
  • Criminal Code 430(4) – Mischief under $5,000
  • Criminal Code 249.1(1) – Flight from police
  • Criminal Code 249(1)(a) – Dangerous operation of motor vehicle
  • Criminal Code 355(a) – Possession of stolen property over $5,000
  • Criminal Code 355(b) – Possession of stolen property under $5,000 X 3
  • Criminal Code 88(1) – Possession of weapon for dangerous purpose (bear spray)
  • Criminal Code 733.1(1) – Fail to comply with probation order
  • TSA 69(1)(a) – Fail to remain at scene of collision
  • TSA 54(1) – Run a red light

McLeod will appear in Alberta Provincial Court in Red Deer on February 11.

 

After 15 years as a TV reporter with Global and CBC and as news director of RDTV in Red Deer, Duane set out on his own 2008 as a visual storyteller. During this period, he became fascinated with a burgeoning online world and how it could better serve local communities. This fascination led to Todayville, launched in 2016.

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Red Deer RCMP warn public regarding circulation of counterfeit currency

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News release from Red Deer RCMP

Red Deer RCMP are alerting the public to look out for counterfeit currency.

Red Deer RCMP have received multiple reports of transactions where $50 and $100 counterfeit bills were used or attempted to be used. Anyone in the area who handles currency are alerted to be on the lookout for suspicious bills and should they come into contact with it, report it to police.

The Bank of Canada has the following advice for dealing with counterfeit currency:

  • Politely refuse the note and explain that you suspect that it may be counterfeit.
  • Ask for another note (and check it too).
  • Advise the person to check the note with the local police.
  • Inform your local police of a possible attempt to pass suspected counterfeit money.
  • Be courteous. Remember that the person in possession of the bill could be an innocent victim who does not realize that the note is suspicious.

If you think you have come across counterfeit currency please contact Red Deer RCMP at 403-406-2200. If you wish to remain anonymous, you can contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), online at www.P3Tips.com or by using the “P3 Tips” app available through the Apple App or Google Play Store. To report crime online, or for access to RCMP news and information, download the Alberta RCMP app through Apple or Google Play.

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DOJ charges 7 Chinese spies with targeting US political leaders, major businesses

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By Matt Lamb

The hackers ‘spent approximately 14 years targeting U.S. and foreign critics, businesses, and political officials’ as part of a massive Chinese espionage operation, according to the DOJ.

Hackers targeted defense contractors, American political leaders, and U.S. companies with malware as part of a surveillance operation for the Chinese Communist Party, the Department of Justice (DOJ) alleges.

The DOJ released details on the indictment of seven Chinese individuals who have been charged with “conspiracy to commit computer intrusions and conspiracy to commit wire fraud,” according to a Monday news release.

The individuals are part of a People’s Republic of China (PRC) group who “spent approximately 14 years targeting U.S. and foreign critics, businesses, and political officials in furtherance of the PRC’s economic espionage and foreign intelligence objectives,” according to the DOJ.

Officials unsealed the indictment on Monday, though charges were originally filed in January.

The indictment provides further insight into how the CCP targets American companies and political leaders for retribution and influence using computer viruses.

The CCP and its Ministry of State Security “sought to obtain information on political, economic and security policies that might affect the PRC, along with military, scientific and technical information of value to the PRC,” the indictment states. “Among other things, the MSS and its state security departments focused on surreptitiously identifying and influencing the foreign policy of other countries, including the United States.”

The hackers used a front company called Wuhan XRZ beginning in at least 2010. They would send fake emails to U.S. senators, business leaders, and information technology companies looking to gain access. They were successful in hacking defense contractors, information technology providers, and universities, among other victims.

The DOJ itself was targeted, along the Commerce Department, the Treasury Department, and the White House.

The Justice Department alleges:

These computer network intrusion activities resulted in the confirmed and potential compromise of work and personal email accounts, cloud storage accounts and telephone call records belonging to millions of Americans, including at least some information that could be released in support of malign influence targeting democratic processes and institutions, and economic plans, intellectual property, and trade secrets belonging to American businesses, and contributed to the estimated billions of dollars lost every year as a result of the PRC’s state-sponsored apparatus to transfer U.S. technology to the PRC.

“If the recipient activated the tracking link by opening the email, information about the recipient, including the recipient’s location, IP addresses, network schematics and specific devices used to access the pertinent email accounts, was transmitted to a server controlled by the Conspirators,” the DOJ stated. “The Conspirators used this method to enable more direct and sophisticated targeting of recipients’ home routers and other electronic devices, including those of high ranking U.S. government officials and politicians and election campaign staff from both major U.S. political parties.”

In just a few months in 2018, the hackers “sent more than 10,000 malicious email messages” to “high-ranking U.S. government officials and their advisors, including officials involved in international policy and foreign trade issues.”

They also targeted campaign staff for “a presidential campaign” in 2020. The filing does not state which campaign.

European Union and United Kingdom leaders who were part of the anti-Communist Inter Parliamentary Alliance on China were also targeted.

Other victims included: “a nuclear power engineering company,” a defense contractor, an aerospace contractor, and “a leading American manufacturer of software and computer services based in California.”

Telecommunications companies, law firms, and steel companies were also targeted.

The CCP impersonated real steel companies in order to gain access to their emails during a battle over tariffs on China. After the Trump administration announced new steel tariffs in 2018, the hackers “registered a malicious domain impersonating the legitimate domain of one of the largest steel producers in the United States (the ‘American Steel Company’)” as well as the International Steel Trade Forum.

“These malicious domains allowed the Conspirators to communicate with malware they installed on the network of the American Steel Company to access and surveil the victim,” the DOJ stated.

They also targeted the Norwegian government in 2018 because it was considering awarding the Nobel Prize to Hong Kong democracy activists.

The PRC is a “malicious nation state,” a federal prosecutor stated in the DOJ news release.

“These allegations pull back the curtain on China’s vast illegal hacking operation that targeted sensitive data from U.S. elected and government officials, journalists, and academics; valuable information from American companies; and political dissidents in America and abroad. Their sinister scheme victimized thousands of people and entities across the world, and lasted for well over a decade,”  U.S. Attorney Breon Peace for the Eastern District of New York stated in the news release.

“America’s sovereignty extends to its cyberspace. Today’s charges demonstrate my office’s commitment to upholding and protecting that jurisdiction, and to putting an end to malicious nation state cyber activity.”

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