{"id":297,"date":"2006-08-25T12:01:37","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T15:55:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-09-17T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T18:47:00","slug":"en-us-322","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"15 computers seized in prostitution arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN.com via AP reports today that an alleged multistate prostitution ring in Palm Springs, California was broken up after a 2-1\/2 year probe. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/LAW\/08\/15\/prostitution.arrest.ap\/index.html\">Cops: Sex ring employed 240 call girls<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>seven people arrested last week and charged for investigation of pimping, pandering, perjury, loan fraud, money laundering, falsifying income tax returns and grand theft, Riverside County Sheriff Bob Doyle said Monday. <\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Authorities also seized about 15 computers and $5 million in unspecified assets. Officials said the investigation was continuing and that more arrests were likely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It not only seems to be the trend that computers are sought in search warrants for any crime where a financial record might be kept, but the ubiquity of computers as storage devices for financial information makes it a near certainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evGMco.b2evALnk.b2WPAutP.b2evSmil <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=297\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29279,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/29279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}