Police Radio Jammer Gets 8 Years- Old Posting but interesting

[Jstglockem]

Police Radio Jammer Gets 8 Years

They nailed him. Thats Fed time...Which means he does every day.

Twenty-six year old Rajib Mitra of Brookfield, Wisconsin, has been sentenced to eight years under new guidelines that provide for harsher penalties under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines that took effect in November 2003. In March, a jury convicted Mitra, in the case of the "magic radio," of repeatedly interfering with the emergency communications radio system of the Madison Police department last year.

Federal District Judge John Shabaz could have added more time to the sentence for each of the times that Mitra interfered with the Madison police radio system, but he decided not to do so. The case is unique, since the United States charged Mitra's interference with the police communication system as interference with a critical infrastructure under the new post 9/11 guidelines and not under any of the traditional federal radio laws.

During the sentencing last May, Judge Shabaz noted the government's evidence showed Mitra also caused 36 other instances of interference over a dozen times starting in January of 2003.

Monitoring and the Law will have full coverage of how Mitra got himself into trouble with his scanners and radios in next month's issue.

[Akosikojak]

BAAM! Do not pass go/do not collect $200.

[Lucky225]

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[aa2033]

If you gave me a working radar jammer, i'd use it. but that guy was just dumb, messing around with emergency radios doesn't help anyone.

[protias]

Stupid does, stupid gets caught.

[MOPARado]

If you gave me a working radar jammer, i'd use it. but that guy was just dumb, messing around with emergency radios doesn't help anyone.

The only one it might help is someone trying to outrun a cop in hot pursuit!

Edit:
There's an old saying that 'you can outrun a cop but not the Motorola!'
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[protias]

If you gave me a working radar jammer, i'd use it. but that guy was just dumb, messing around with emergency radios doesn't help anyone.

The only one it might help is someone trying to outrun a cop in hot pursuit!

Edit:
There's an old saying that 'you can outrun a cop but not the Motorola!'
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In the 2002 Gumball 3000, there were two cars that did outrun the police in AZ. I'll have to find the video though of the guy describing it. If I cannot find it, the lead car got clocked at 170 and sped up to 187. The police chased them for 25 minutes before calling Albuquerque (mile marker 49). These guys were already at mile marker 37!

[MOPARado]

I only know of two guys who successfully outran cops.
One was a hi-school buddy with a souped up 327 Chevy. It was in a suburban residential area and this guy knew how to handle that Chevy. He lucked out as this was near his home. When he momentarily lost sight of the State Trooper he swung down his alley and quickly hid the car in his garage. He told me a few minutes later he seen the trooper slowly go down the alley with his lights on passing his garage. Whew!!

The other guy was a legend at the time among us all. This guy was an extreme wild, goofy and crazy driver. In fact we called him Crazy Mike. He also knew how to handle that Ford of his. He was known to outrun or ditch at least two cops.
Shortly after graduating HS, he got his pilots license!
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