ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors are announcing what they say is the first-ever criminal conviction involving the sale of an eavesdropping tool for cellphones.

Hammad Akbar, the CEO of a company that sold the StealthGenie cellphone spyware app, pleaded guilty Tuesday to selling and advertising an interception device. He avoided prison time and was ordered to pay a $500,000 fine.

Prosecutors say StealthGenie could be secretly installed on smart phones. That allowed all their calls, texts and other communications to be remotely monitored.

The 31-year-old Akbar, of Lahore, Pakistan, was arrested in September in Los Angeles and prosecuted in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia. StealthGenie was hosted from a data center in Ashburn, Virginia. The case was investigated by the FBI's Washington Field Office.
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Dulles Town Center jewelry store hit by smash-and-grab robbery

A group of men smashed a jewelry case with sledgehammers and took a large number of high-end wristwatches from a jewelry store in the Dulles Town Center on Tuesday.

obvious the Ferguson cop is free fx should hire him ! exchange him for that cop who's allowing his kid to take joy rides in the police cruiser :)

(for those of u who dont know, when cops are fired they are just exchanged for other cops who were fired elsewhere, they often dont actaully get fired)

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