![]() Convinced now that she had the right guy, Heath went downstairs to speak with Loughry. ![]() Savigar-whose initials spelled out “DAS”-and who was at that moment being arrested by the Lancashire Constabulary. D.A. Savigar,, Leyland, Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom, PR251AH.” It was the address for one Delwyn A. Turning it over, they saw another notation: “Mr. In addition to all the electronic evidence they collected, agents also discovered a scrap of paper with a cryptic address fragment scrawled in the lower right corner. The site’s leader went by “DAS,” while Loughry was suspected to be a co-administrator named “Mayorroger.” The government had already penetrated the board’s security and so knew the online “handles” of its members. The agents were seeking information that could tie Loughry to an Internet message board called “The Cache,” a major site where members shared links to child pornography. Most of the time was spent on the second floor where Loughry had his bedroom, a home office, and his computer. The vinyl-sided home was dilapidated Heath’s inspectors went two steps down into the basement, but the stairs were so rickety that she worried someone might fall through. The warrant team sat Loughry on a living room couch just to the right of the front door, then spent an hour and forty minutes combing the house. Full footnotes are available in the book. Savigar et al.-the Southern District of Indiana case used to prosecute most of The Cache defendants-along with other court documents and interviews with the lawyers involved. The main source material for the piece was the hundreds of pages of transcripts detailing the trial of Roger Loughry in USA v. It can currently be purchased as a hardback ( Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or local bookstores) or as an e-book ( Amazon, iTunes, Barnes & Noble, or Google Play). This feature is excerpted, in slightly modified form, from the new book The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed by Ars deputy editor Nate Anderson. Heath herself arrived shortly, crossed the dirt driveway, and let herself into the yard through the chain-link gate in the front fence. Heath called her team immediately and they took Loughry back inside his home. To ensure he didn’t leave the property, the surveillance team broke from their vehicles and detained him next to his home.Īt 9:00am, federal Magistrate Judge Beth Gesner signed off on the search warrant. While she waited, Loughry stepped out into the morning air, unkempt hair hanging to his shoulders. Heath, in constant communication with her team back on Independence Street, wanted her warrant before Loughry got spooked by the surveillance. The target was Roger Lee Loughry Sr., a fiftysomething mechanic with a high-school education, a handlebar mustache, and a love for motorcycles. By 8:30am, the full twelve-person group of postal inspectors, digital forensics specialists, and police officers was in position, but they couldn’t act-Heath was stalled down at the District Court, still waiting to get her search warrant signed. They got an early start with help from local cops, Heath put the house under surveillance at 6:00am. O n the morning of September 10, 2008, US Postal Inspector Lori Heath had assembled a Baltimore team to raid the ramshackle Independence Street home of a suspected Internet child pornography kingpin.
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