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‘It's just a nightmare’: More and more USAA members who lost thousands of dollars are sharing their stories of fraud — say they’ve now lost trust in the bank One customer says fraudsters “were playing mind games” with his accounts.

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Caught on camera: Bear sneaks up behind child in Aspen yard
Brooke Williams
Mon, September 2, 2024 at 11:53 PM EDT

DENVER (KDVR) — A child was having a snack in a backyard in Aspen on Saturday when a black bear came up behind him.

The family told FOX31 that they had seen bears in the area before, even catching some on camera at night, but never in broad daylight like this.

The boy and his parents were spending the weekend with family in Aspen. He was munching on a bag of kettle corn that the family had bought at a farmers market earlier that day.

The incident was all caught on camera, showing the bear sniffing in the air while approaching the boy, who was sitting on a yard chair near a firepit. The bear came within about a foot of his head.

Bears are getting hungrier before hibernation, CPW warns

At that moment, the boy’s mother, Rachel Schmela said she didn’t know what to do.

“I was like, frozen for a couple of seconds, I didn’t know what to do,” she said. “Luckily, Rob and his brother kind of jumped into action sooner than I did and they knew just to make some loud noise and that would scare the bear.”

No one was hurt in the incident.

Keep bears out of the house with Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s bear-proofing tips:

Close and lock doors and windows

Bearproof trash cans

Guard windows with bars

Keep garage doors closed

Have an “unwelcome” mat

Keep car doors and windows closed and locked

Remove tree limbs near decks and windows

Install round door handles

Play talk radio when you leave home to deter bears

Why bears in Colorado like trash

More bear safety and bear-proofing tips can be found on the CPW website.

CPW said storing food, dog food or bird feed in the garage can also attract bears, as well as anything with an odor in cars or garages, including (but not limited to) scented candles, air fresheners, soaps, lotions and lip balms.

If a bear comes near your home, CPW said you can scare it away with a firm yell and loud noises like clapping hands, banging pots and pans or air horns. If a bear enters your home, make sure it can get out the same way it got in.

If you spot a black bear near your home, you can call your local CPW region or submit a form online.

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AFP
'Russian spy' whale was shot dead: animal rights groups
Pierre-Henry DESHAYES
Wed, September 4, 2024 at 10:37 AM EDT

Animal rights groups said Wednesday that gunfire killed a beluga whale that rose to fame in Norway after its unusual harness sparked suspicions the creature had been trained by Russia as a spy.

The organisations NOAH and One Whale said they had filed a complaint with Norwegian police asking them to open a criminal investigation.

Nicknamed "Hvaldimir" in a pun on the Norwegian word for whale (hval) and its purported ties to Moscow, the white beluga first appeared off the coast in Norway's far-northern Finnmark region in 2019.

A celebrity in Norway, he was found dead Saturday in a bay on the country's southwestern coast.

His body was transported to a local branch of the Norwegian Veterinary Institute on Monday for an autopsy.

The report is expected "within three weeks", a spokeswoman for the institute said.

"He had multiple bullet wounds around his body," Regina Crosby Haug, the head of One Whale, which was founded to track the beluga, told AFP after viewing Hvaldimir's body on Monday.

Photographs published Wednesday by the two organisations showed what appeared to be bullets lodged in holes in the animal's blood-streaked body.

"The injuries on the whale are alarming and of a nature that cannot rule out a criminal act -- it is shocking," NOAH director Siri Martinsen said in a statement.

"Given the suspicion of a criminal act, it is crucial that the police are involved quickly," she said.

Police confirmed they had received a complaint and said they would look into the matter "to determine whether there are reasonable motives to launch an investigation".

The Veterinary Institute told AFP that "if something suspicious were to come up" under the autopsy, "police would be informed".

When Hvaldimir was found in 2019, Norwegian marine biologists removed a man-made harness with a mount suited for an action camera and the words "Equipment St. Petersburg" printed in English on the plastic clasps.

Norwegian officials said Hvaldimir might have escaped an enclosure and been trained by the Russian navy, as he appeared to be accustomed to humans.

Moscow has never issued any official reaction to speculation that he could be a "Russian spy".

- Rival groups -

A third organisation that had also tracked the whale's movements, Marine Mind, said it found Hvaldimir's dead body floating in the water on Saturday at around 2:30 pm (1230 GMT).

"There was nothing to immediately reveal the cause of death," director Sebastian Strand told AFP. "We saw markings but it's too early to say what the cause of death was."

He said that some of the markings were probably caused by marine birds, but that there was no explanation for the others at this stage.

One Whale and Marine Mind had been at odds over how to best protect Hvaldimir.

Citing the risk of a collision with ships, One Whale had called for him to be transferred to the Barents Sea off northern Norway, a more natural habitat for belugas.

But Marine Mind had opposed the idea, arguing that a transport could pose a danger to his life.

With an estimated age of 15 to 20, Hvaldimir was relatively young for a beluga whale, which typically live 30 to 35 years, according to the WWF.

In 2019, the hypothesis of a "spy whale" was fuelled by the strategic location of the Barents Sea, a hotbed of East-West rivalry during the Cold War.

Moscow's most powerful navy fleet is based in the Barents Sea, and Russia and the West continue to track the movements of each other's submarines in the region.

The region is also the gateway to the Northeast Passage, which shortens shipping routes considerably between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

The Hollywood Reporter
Planned Terrorist Attack at Taylor Swift Concert Was Intended to Kill “Tens of Thousands of People,” CIA Official Says
Carly Thomas
Wed, August 28, 2024 at 8:39 PM EDT

The thwarted terrorist attack on a Taylor Swift Eras Tour concert in Vienna was intended “to kill a huge number, tens of thousands of people,” including Americans, according to the deputy director of the CIA.

At the annual Intelligence Summit just outside Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, David S. Cohen shared an update on the investigation into the planned terrorist plot earlier this month, which resulted in the pop star canceling all her shows in Austria’s capital.

“They were plotting to kill a huge number, tens of thousands of people at this concert, I am sure many Americans,” Cohen said, as reported by The New York Times. “The Austrians were able to make those arrests because the agency and our partners in the intelligence community provided them information about what this ISIS-connected group was planning to do.”

On Aug. 7, Austrian concert promoter Barracuda Music announced that the three Eras Tour shows scheduled at the Ernst Happel Stadium would be canceled over an apparent terrorist plot. Austrian authorities have since arrested three people accused of plotting the attack, including one who was found with bomb-making material.

Cohen emphasized they had no doubt that the goal of the plot was to attack the Eras Tour show, killing a large number of concertgoers.

Weeks following the cancellation of the shows, Swift broke her silence on the planned attacks, as well as expressed gratitude to the authorities. “Having our Vienna shows cancelled was devastating,” she wrote on Instagram. “The reason for the cancellations filled me with a new sense of fear, and a tremendous amount of guilt because so many people had planned on coming to those shows.”

The superstar continued, “But I was also so grateful to the authorities because thanks to them, we were grieving concerts and not lives. I was heartened by the love and unity I saw in the fans who banded together.”

Cohen did not share how the CIA learned of the planned attack. The Times reported that 200,000 people were expected to attend Swift’s Vienna shows.

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Florida Man Pulls Gun Out During Road Rage Confrontation
Steven Symes
Mon, August 26, 2024 at 8:00 AM

Road rage incidents are scary enough as it is, but when fi****ms or other weapons are added to the mix the potential for disaster soars. That’s why pulling out your gun in the heat of the moment when there’s no actual threat to your person is just a bad idea, as one Florida man is currently learning.

Cellphone video shows the moment when 63-year-old Paul Slane parks in front of another vehicle in a gated community, then marches up to the driver’s window while holding a handgun. The wife in the passenger seat started recording and Slane took issue with that, trying to slap the phone out of her hand.

You can hear the husband try to reason with the man in the video, but Slane was belligerent. Thankfully he didn’t appear to point the gun at the married couple, but he did hold it up at least once, making it clear he was armed and ready.

After the recorded road rage confrontation, the couple drove around Slane’s Mercedes, but he followed them and continued harassing the victims. Considering they knew he was armed and he was acting aggressively, that had to have been a scary situation.

This all went down on the afternoon of August 20. Police are still trying to figure out what set Slane off. They know he sped around the victims’ vehicle, then brake checked them using his Mercedes before stopping and getting out to confront them.

Slane has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of battery, and one count of robbery with a firearm, reports WPBF.

With road rage being a growing problem in many areas recently, it’s important to understand if someone tries to engage you in it, your best option is to not reciprocate or the situation can escalate. Don’t get out of your vehicle, try to drive away if possible, and call authorities for help as quickly as you can.

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Hidden-camera video shows Project 2025 co-author discussing his secret work preparing for a second Trump term
Curt Devine, Casey Tolan, Audrey Ash and Kyung Lah, CNN
August 15, 2024

Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor.

Vought, one of the key authors of Project 2025, a right-wing blueprint for a second Trump term, expected the meeting would help his think tank secure a substantial contribution. For nearly two hours, he talked candidly about his behind-the-scenes work to prepare policy for former President Donald Trump, his expansive views on presidential power, his plans to restrict po*******hy and immigration, and his complaints that the GOP was too focused on “religious liberty” instead of “Christian nation-ism.”

But the men Vought was talking to actually worked for a British journalism nonprofit and were secretly recording him the entire time.

The nonprofit, the Centre for Climate Reporting, published a video of the meeting on Thursday – offering a window into the thinking of one of the top policy minds of the MAGA movement, who’s been floated as a possible White House chief of staff.

Trump has publicly rejected Project 2025 as Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has sought to tie him to some of the plan’s most extreme proposals. But in private, Vought said that those disavowals were merely “graduate-level politics.”

Vought said his group, the Center for Renewing America, was secretly drafting hundreds of executive orders, regulations, and memos that would lay the groundwork for rapid action on Trump’s plans if he wins, describing his work as creating “shadow” agencies. He claimed that Trump has “blessed” his organization and “he’s very supportive of what we do.”

“Eighty percent of my time is working on the plans of what’s necessary to take control of these bureaucracies,” Vought said. “And we are working doggedly on that, whether it’s destroying their agencies’ notion of independence … whether that is thinking through how the deportation would work.”

In discussing Trump’s plan to carry out the largest deportation in US history – which the former president has called for publicly – Vought said the expulsion of millions of undocumented immigrants could help “save the country.”

Once deportations begin, “you’re really going to be winning a debate along the way about what that looks like,” Vought said. “And so that’s going to cause us to get us off of multiculturalism, just to be able to sustain and defend the deportation, right?”

The video is the latest example of secret recordings exposing political figures’ private comments. The tactics used by the Centre – which created fake websites and a fake LinkedIn profile to deceive Vought – are typically rejected by mainstream American news outlets.

But using hidden cameras and deceptive practices in reporting is more common in the UK, where the Centre is based, and it’s been on the rise on the fringe of the US media as well. The conservative group Project Veritas has long conducted sting operations and published selectively edited videos, and earlier this year, a liberal activist released audio recordings of conversations she had with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife, as well as Chief Justice John Roberts.

In an email, Lawrence Carter, the Centre’s co-founder and director, defended the group’s tactics, saying that there was a public interest in revealing Vought’s private comments about his relationship with Trump and work on Project 2025.

“We broadly follow the UK’s press regulator guidelines on this, which say that it is justified if it is in the public interest and not obtainable via other means,” Carter said. “We therefore weigh the subject’s reasonable expectation of privacy with the public interest.”

The Centre posted clips of its secretly recorded conversation with Vought online. It provided CNN what it said was a complete, unedited version of its video on the condition that CNN blurred footage showing its employees’ faces, in order to protect their ability to go undercover in the future.

In a statement Thursday, Vought’s nonprofit downplayed the video, saying it did not reveal any new comments from him.

“It would have been easier to just do a google search to ‘uncover’ what is already on our website and said in countless national media interviews,” said Rachel Cauley, a spokesperson for the Center for Renewing America. “But thank you for airing our perfect conversation emphasizing our policy work is totally separate from the Trump campaign, as we have been saying.”

A Trump spokesperson declined to comment on the video, but his campaign has stressed that he sets his own agenda and that Project 2025 and other outside conservative groups don’t speak for him.

“President Trump’s campaign made it clear that only President Trump and the campaign, and NOT any other organization or former staff, represent policies for the second term,” Danielle Alvarez, a senior advisor to the campaign, said in a statement. “President Trump personally led the effort to establish 20 promises made to the forgotten men and women across our nation, as well as RNC Platform – these are the only policies endorsed by President Trump for a second term.”

An elaborate ruse
Vought served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump, where he made a name for himself as a policy wonk committed to the MAGA movement. In public, Trump repeatedly praised Vought for doing an “incredible” and “fantastic” job at OMB.

After Trump left office, Vought started the Center for Renewing America, a nonprofit that describes itself as the “tip of the America First spear.” CRA was one of many right-leaning groups that partnered on Project 2025, a more than 900-page blueprint for Trump’s second term that was led by the Heritage Foundation. Vought personally authored the project’s chapter on the executive office of the president, and his group contributed to several other chapters of the plan as well.

Vought also served as the policy director of the Republican National Convention committee that rewrote the GOP’s official platform this year – a sign of how central he is to Republicans’ policy goals.

Last month, Vought’s team was approached by employees with the Centre for Climate Reporting, which has previously published investigations into climate negotiations and Saudi Arabia’s energy policy.

The Centre spun an elaborate fiction, with a journalist and a paid actor posing as the brother and son-in-law of a reclusive New Mexico investor. The nonexistent patriarch had watched Vought’s appearances on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” show while recuperating from an illness – and wanted to make a seven-figure contribution to CRA after previously focusing his philanthropy on classical music, they claimed.

The meeting took place on July 24, the week after the Republican convention, at the presidential suite of the Rosewood hotel in DC, where the Centre had placed several hidden cameras and microphones, Carter said. After the Centre’s employees suggested starting the meeting with a prayer, they peppered Vought with questions about his work and views, the video shows.

Sitting on a couch in the hotel suite, Vought seemed relaxed and comfortable discussing a wide range of topics, from the history of the conservative movement to European politics to his relationship with the former president.

Vought said he was unfazed by Trump’s repeated denials of any connection with Project 2025, dismissing such public statements as politics.

“I see what he’s doing is just very, very conscious distancing himself from a brand,” Vought said. “It’s interesting, he’s in fact not even opposing himself to a particular policy.”

About a week after the conversation, the director of Project 2025 stepped down, and Trump’s campaign managers said in a statement that “reports of Project 2025’s demise would be greatly welcomed.”

Vought said he had personally talked to Trump in recent months and received at least one personal “assignment” from him after he left office. He noted that the former president has “been at our organization, he’s raised money for our organization, he’s blessed it … he’s very supportive of what we do.”

That wasn’t just bluster to try to land a big check, according to others in the MAGA movement. Trump and Vought have spoken at various times since leaving office, and the former president has adopted some of Vought’s ideas, two sources familiar with their relationship told CNN.

Inside the ‘second phase’ of Project 2025
In preparation for Trump’s potential return to the White House, Vought said in the meeting that he had a team of staffers working to draft regulations and executive orders that would translate Trump’s campaign speeches into government policy.

“We’ve got about 350 different documents that are regulations and things of that nature that are, we’re planning for the next administration,” he said.

For example, “you may say, ‘OK, all right, DHS, we want to have the largest deportation,’” Vought said. “What are your actual memos that a secretary sends out to do it? Like, there’s an executive order, regulations, secretarial memos. Those are the types of things that need to be thought through so you’re not, you’re not having to scramble or do that later on.”

Those plans will not be made public, Vought said, but instead will be “very, very close hold.”

A Centre for Climate Reporting journalist, under the guise of the fake donor’s relative, also secretly recorded a separate conversation with one of Vought’s aides, who went into more detail about the process. Micah Meadowcroft, the research director for CRA, said the drafts the group was preparing would be provided to an incoming Trump administration in a way that would protect them from ever being publicly disclosed.

“It’s a big, fat stack of papers that will be distributed during the transition period,” Meadowcroft said in the video – while noting that “you don’t actually, like, send them to their work emails,” in order to avoid disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.

He described Vought’s work preparing executive orders and policy playbooks as “the second phase” of Project 2025.

The work of drafting policies is happening months ahead of the election in part because “President Trump will want to spend literally zero amount of time thinking or contemplating what a transition will look like,” Vought said. “It’s not how he thinks.”

Vought’s guiding principle, he said, was simple: What would Donald do?

“We were always going off of, if Donald Trump was head of this agency, what would he do with it?” Vought said.

The Washington Post and Associated Press previously reported that Vought was drafting a playbook for the first 180 days of a new Trump administration.

More broadly, during Trump’s first term in office, Vought said, “we had people, appointees, that were not on board with the president’s viewpoint – leaking, destabilizing the policy process.”

“I don’t think that will be the occurrence again,” Vought said. “I think he will find people that share his political views are bought in, and that will be a much more healthy White House process as a result.”

Some have speculated that Vought himself could be one of those people, with others in the MAGA movement floating him as a potential White House chief of staff. Asked if he had been offered a job in a second Trump administration, Vought said no, but added, “I think there’s an expectation that I would go in.”

“I don’t know what that would be,” he said. “I don’t know what the President would want me to do.”

Religion and race
Elsewhere in the conversation, Vought outlined views on religion and race that seem more extreme than those Trump has publicly articulated – including criticism of the right for what he described as an excessive focus on religious freedom.

In the conservative movement, “we’ve been too focused on religious liberty, which we all support, but we’ve lacked the ability to argue we are a Christian nation,” Vought argued – an idea he’s also talked about publicly. “Our laws are built on the Judeo-Christian worldview value system.”

He said that conservatives should push to have debates over whether to allow mosques to be built in America’s downtowns, and whether Christian immigrants should be prioritized over those of other faiths – ideas that run contrary to First Amendment protections.

“I want to make sure that we can say we are a Christian nation,” Vought added later. “And my viewpoint is mostly that I would probably be Christian nation-ism. That’s pretty close to Christian nationalism because I also believe in nationalism.”

Vought argued that it was important to pursue some of the culturally conservative policy goals listed in the Project 2025 blueprint – including abortion restrictions and making po*******hy illegal – while taking into account political realities.

Instead of an unpopular new law banning all po*******hy, for example, Vought said that his group would propose “doing it from the back door” by making po*******hy websites legally liable if minors use them. That could lead po*******hy companies to stop doing business in states with those kind of laws, he suggested.

And in discussing the protests and riots around the US in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in 2020, Vought said that the president had the ability to use the military to restore order. He argued that the commander-in-chief wasn’t limited by the Posse Comitatus Act, a nearly 150-year-old law that prevents federal troops from conducting civilian law enforcement except when authorized by law.

“The President has, you know, the ability both along the border and elsewhere to maintain law and order with the military,” Vought said. “And that’s something that, you know, it’s going to be important for, for him to remember and his lawyers to affirm.”

Trump wanted to deploy thousands of active duty troops on the streets of major cities to quell protesters in 2020, but defense officials pushed back, a senior official told CNN at the time.

Vought added that the unrest following Floyd’s death “obviously was not about race.”

“It was about destabilizing the Trump administration,” he claimed.

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Birmingham-based Ducati dealership has license revoked after state uncovers fraud
Jack Nissen
August 14, 2024

BIRMINGHAM, Mich. (FOX 2) - A motorcycle dealership based on Woodward Avenue that sells Ducati motorcycles had its business license suspended by the state after reports of fraud, forgery, and altered delivery dates uncovered during an investigation by the Michigan Department of State.

Ducati of Detroit, located in Birmingham, was accused of creating an "imminent threat to the health, safety or welfare of the public" a news release from the department said.

According to MDOS, the issues at the dealership started in May 2017 when a general compliance inspection uncovered the dealership was not submitting proper sales tax, as well as fraudulent acts in connection with selling vehicles.

An investigation started after a complaint from a former employee of Ducati of Detroit.

A warning letter was went in March of 2018 before a preliminary conference five years later in 2023 to address violations that were related to an inspection earlier in the year.

They included several failures to properly maintain records. After implementing a suspension, the owner of the dealership - identified as Charles Knoll - voluntarily agreed to have his license revoked. It went into effect on Aug. 7, 2024.

Among the violations include:

Committing fraud in connection with selling or dealing with vehicles - including illegally collecting the sales tax on sold vehicles, forging purchasers' signatures, and altering the deliver date of vehicles to avoid paying late fees

Failing to provide records for inspection upon request

Issuing temporary registration on a different date than when vehicles were delivered

Failing to correctly document the dates of purchase

In addition to admitting to violating the Michigan Vehicle Code, the company agreed to pay a $53,000 penalty.

KELO Sioux Falls
Sturgis Rally s*x sting shows local predators active during bike week
Tom Hanson
August 13, 2024

STURGIS, S.D. (KELO) — An estimated 400,000 people traveled to the Black Hills for the 2024 Sturgis Rally, which ended on Sunday. KELOLAND News examined the rally sting operations over the past several years, and what we found was a bit surprising.

While some of the s*xual predators caught trying to meet underage victims are from out of state, the vast majority of those arrested are local.

According to the U.S. Justice Department, take a look at these numbers: In 2020, eight men were arrested for s*x trafficking, six from South Dakota. In 2021, nine men were arrested, eight from South Dakota. In 2022, six were arrested, all six from South Dakota. In 2023, five were arrested, all five from South Dakota. And this year, seven people were arrested, all of them from South Dakota.

The ICAC or Internet Crimes Against Children team, made up of federal, state, and local law enforcement, puts out ads, which basically say young children are for sale.

How the 84th rally measures up to previous years

“And we wait and see what traffic comes, responses to those ads, said Attorney General Marty Jackley. “And we make a determination whether this individual is a danger to children and then we correspond with them, and we make an appropriate arrest when the communication reaches that level that is is apparent that there will be injury or damage to a child.”

35 s*xual predators off the streets in the last five years shows how effective these sting operations can be. 32 of those arrested have a South Dakota address. Jackley says the fact that most of the suspects are local, concerns him but doesn’t surprise him.

“Which means, again there is a need for these ICAC operations to continue and you should see more of them in the local area,” said Jackley.

Jackley will work with lawmakers to ensure funding is available for more operations to protect kids outside of big events like Sturgis. They know that the more arrests they make, the more children they protect. The South Dakota task force, formed in 2004, is one of 61 Internet Crimes Against Children programs nationwide.

LA Times
After repeated thefts, she mailed herself an Apple AirTag as bait. It worked
Nathan Solis
Wed, August 21, 2024 at 11:32 AM EDT·2 min read
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Two suspected mail thieves were thwarted by a tracking device and a Santa Barbara County woman who was fed up with her mail being stolen.

On Monday, Santa Barbara County sheriff's deputies were called to the Los Alamos Post Office shortly after 7 a.m. for a report of mail theft. Thieves stole items from a woman's post office box, and this was not the first time the box was hit, she told deputies.

But this time, she decided to take matters into her own hands and mailed herself a package containing an Apple AirTag, a tracking device that can be used to help people find their personal items through a Bluetooth signal.

Her mail was stolen on Monday, according to the Sheriff's Department, including the package with the tracking device. The woman showed deputies that she was able to track the package to the 600 block of E. Sunrise Drive in Santa Maria.

Deputies found the woman's mail, including the package with the AirTag along with items that were likely stolen from over a dozen additional victims, according to the Sheriff's Department.

Authorities arrested Virginia Franchessca Lara, 27, from Santa Maria and Donald Ashton Terry, 37, from Riverside on suspicion of the thefts. Lara was booked at the Northern Branch Jail for possession of checks with intent to commit fraud, fictitious checks, identity theft, credit card theft and conspiracy, the Sheriff's Department said. Her bail was set at $50,000.

Terry was booked on suspicion of burglary, possession of checks with intent to commit fraud, credit card theft, identity theft, and conspiracy. He was also booked on several theft-related warrants from Riverside County. His bail was set at $460,000.

In a news release, the Sheriff's Department thanked the post office box owner for taking a proactive approach and for not attempting to confront the suspects by herself. The case remains under investigation to identify any other victims.

A pack of four AirTag tracking devices cost $80 and are about the size of a half-dollar coin. Apple is in the midst of a class-action lawsuit in California that accuses the company of taking inadequate steps to prevent stalkers from using the AirTag tracking devices, which the Silicon Valley company once called “stalker-proof.”

This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.