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Article: DIGITAL CRACKDOWN LAW ENFORCEMENT MEMBERS GET TRAINING IN COMPUTER FORENSICS TO HELP NAB CRIMINALS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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NEW BRAINTREE - With its stately lettering and elaborately
engraved borders, there's a certain austere dignity to a
Massachusetts automobile certificate of title, the piece of paper
that proves ownership of a car. The image on the computer screen had
that same serious, legitimate look.
But the image came from a floppy disk confiscated during a police
raid on a suspected car-theft ring. According to Massachusetts State
Police Lieutenant Thomas Kerle, the thieves used desktop computers
and printers to forge all of the documents needed to sanitize a
stolen car, and resell it to some unsuspecting consumer.
"The inspection stickers, the registry stamps: You name it, they
had it," Kerle said.
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