Secret Service and Nassau County police arrested an unemployed electronics enthusiast from Kings Park after he intentionally intercepted communication sent and received by the mobile data terminals installed in police cruisers, federal agents said.Keith Knipschild, a former NYNEX employee, was arrested Wednesday in his home at 29 Amapola Lane for intercepting information and posting some of it on his Web site,, agents said. Yeoman said such "hacking" could allow someone with the same equipment to obtain the passwords officers use and get into HPD's main computer. Police believe Morales had been operating for about six months, but they aren't sure yet how many clients he had.
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Yeoman said Morales' equipment allowed him to turn those transmissions into text messages and send them to wrecker drivers through pager-like equipment in their trucks. So they can have quick access to information, talk among themselves and communicate with dispatchers without being monitored on police scanners, officers have " mobile data terminals " in their cars that send and receive digital transmissions. Yeoman said investigators were tipped off about Morales' business by people who work in storage lots, where tow truck drivers drop off vehicles. Yeoman, who works in the auto theft division.
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3 and seized computer equipment, software and electronic devices and scanners modified to intercept digital transmissions, said Sgt. Grand jurors indicted Morales on a charge of intercepting wire communications, a second-degree felony.īut he had not surrendered himself at the Harris County jail by late Tuesday afternoon and police were still looking for him.Police executed a search warrant at Morales' home in the 10700 block of Braes Bend Drive in southwest Houston on Sept. Jose Morales, 43, is accused of then selling the information to wrecker drivers so they could be on the scene when an officer called for a tow truck, prosecutors and police said Tuesday. Man charged in interception, sale of police wiretransmissionsĪ computer programmer was charged Tuesday with illegally intercepting digital radio transmissions sent to mobile data terminals in Houston police cars. Paper: Houston Chronicle Date: WED 09/16/98 Section: A Page: 29 Edition: 3 STAR
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