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posted by azrael on Tuesday October 21 2014, @05:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the pot-calling-kettle-black-dept dept.

On Friday, a Monterey County woman was charged with wiretapping a police officer and possessing "illegal interception devices”, according to the Northern California District Attorney’s office. The District Attorney said that Kristin Nyunt, age 40, allegedly intercepted communications made by a police officer on his mobile phone.

Nyunt is the ex-wife of former Pacific Grove Police Commander John Nyunt, and she has already been sentenced to eight years and four months in prison after pleading guilty in July to five counts of identity theft, two counts of computer network fraud, one count of residential burglary, and two counts of forgery.

In the latest charges [PDF], the District Attorney accused Nyunt of using illegal spyware including MobiStealth, StealthGenie, and mSpy to intercept "sensitive law enforcement communication” in real time. Nyunt allegedly placed the spyware on a police officer’s phone surreptitiously, although court documents do not detail how or why.

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  • (Score: 1) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 21 2014, @05:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 21 2014, @05:35PM (#108309)

    Without a warrant, but not the other way around?

    • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Tuesday October 21 2014, @07:06PM

      by wonkey_monkey (279) on Tuesday October 21 2014, @07:06PM (#108344) Homepage

      There are loads of things the police can do in the course of their duty that we're not allowed to. What use would they be otherwise?

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      systemd is Roko's Basilisk
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 21 2014, @10:56PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 21 2014, @10:56PM (#108456)

        > There are loads of things the police can do in the course of their duty that we're not allowed to.

        Ok, name 3 things cops can do without a warrant that everyone else can't do.

        The only thing I can think of is exceed the speed limit and in a sane jurisdiction they must run their lights and sirens, just like any other emergency vehicle driven by a non-cop.

    • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Tuesday October 21 2014, @07:06PM

      by hemocyanin (186) on Tuesday October 21 2014, @07:06PM (#108346) Journal

      So if she gets 8 years for doing this to one guy, how many years should Clapper get?

      As an aside, I am totally against spying on people, but this sentence sort of shocks me -- that's a long time. It would not shock me however, for a person like Clapper to get life simply because of the magnitude of the intrusion. Anyway, he's still a free man despite his felonious conduct in lying to congress under oath, but she is locked up for doing 1/300000000th (*) of what he is responsible for. Two tier justice no doubt.

      (*) roughly calculated on population but not taking into consideration time, e.g., if she did this for one year on one guy, that is not as bad as doing it on 300,000,000 people for ten years by another factor of 10.

  • (Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Tuesday October 21 2014, @05:45PM

    by GungnirSniper (1671) on Tuesday October 21 2014, @05:45PM (#108314) Journal

    The summary doesn't mention that her ex-husband was a Police Commander who let her have access to police databases and shut down attempts by his department to investigate her identity thefts. It sounds like they both should be enjoying extended time behind bars, though I would think a sworn officer's broken oath should also lead to additional charges.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 21 2014, @05:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 21 2014, @05:45PM (#108315)

    They were spying on her... so they find out when she started spying on them

  • (Score: 1) by octalrage on Wednesday October 22 2014, @05:53AM

    by octalrage (4706) on Wednesday October 22 2014, @05:53AM (#108568)

    Wiretapping is a crime in and of itself. The fact that the victim is a police officer should have no bearing at all on the sentence. Rather, if it can be shown the wiretapping impaired (or was intended to impair) a criminal investigation or other duty of the officer, the perpetrator should be charged separately with some variant of "Obstructing Justice". In Nyunt's case it doesn't sound like her motive had anything to do with her ex-husband's career. She doesn't deserve any extra punishment just because her ex-husband is a police officer.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 22 2014, @07:54AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 22 2014, @07:54AM (#108587)

      Exactly. Disgusting.