Tag: identity theft
“It was high-speed adrenaline,” artist Jessamyn Lovell tells SF Chronicle. “I’m jumping in and out of the SUV photographing her. She hops on the bus, she gets off the bus. She goes to Goodwill.” A few years ago, Lovell started receiving strange bills and court summons for theft. It turned out that a San Francisco-based woman named Erin […]
The Justice Department claims to have every right to impersonate a real person on Facebook and use photos from a seized cellphone to post them on the popular social networking site. Sondra Arquiett was arrested in 2010 for allegedly being part of a drug ring. She was accused of participating in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and was facing a […]
In 2002, undercover officer Mark Kennedy was transferred from the drug beat to infiltrate budding environmental protest movements in the UK. For eight existentially excruciating years, he was “Mark Stone.” He protested a dam in Iceland, got his finger broken by riot police, got some tattoos and fell in with some anarchists. He even got himself a girlfriend, […]
