Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal


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Old 12-07-2005   #1
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Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal



Wed Jul 6, 8:15 PM ET

Police have arrested a man for using someone else's wireless Internet network in one of the first criminal cases involving this fairly common practice.

Benjamin Smith III, 41, faces a pretrial hearing this month following his April arrest on charges of unauthorized access to a computer network, a third-degree felony.

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