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posted by martyb on Thursday March 23 2017, @11:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the worse-than-HACF dept.

Previously: Alleged Epilepsy-Triggering Troll Arrested by the FBI.

The man accused of triggering an epileptic seizure by tweeting was caught when authorities obtained phone records and access to an iCloud account:

Court documents show that a search warrant to Twitter concerning the @jew_goldstein handle provided the authorities with information that the account was created on December 11 with a "PhoneDevice." Twitter also divulged the device's phone number and said that the carrier was AT&T. Some of the direct messages to other Twitter users on the account, according to the documents, said, "I know he has epilepsy," "I hope this sends him into a seizure," and "...let's see if he dies." The Dallas authorities next obtained information from AT&T that the telephone number used to start the Twitter account was a burner SIM card with a Tracfone prepaid account "with no subscriber information." "However, a review of the AT&T toll records showed an associated Apple iPhone 6A Model 1586 (Apple iPhone)," Nathan Hopp, an FBI agent in Dallas, wrote in the criminal complaint (PDF).

The police then sent a search warrant to Apple "for the iCloud account associated to the telephone number" used to open the Twitter account. Apple provided a wealth of information that ultimately doomed Rivello. Cupertino gave the Dallas Police Department his Apple ID e-mail address, his name, home address, and registration IP address when the account was created in 2012.

John Rayne Rivello has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon "enhanced as a hate crime". One of the images obtained from the iCloud account included an image of Rivello posing with his driver's license. The animated GIF that Rivello allegedly tweeted was a generic one that had already been posted on places such as 4chan for years.


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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 24 2017, @12:09AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 24 2017, @12:09AM (#483445)

    Not too soon. Just not good enough. -1

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by bob_super on Friday March 24 2017, @12:22AM (1 child)

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday March 24 2017, @12:22AM (#483448)

    Almost made the first bad pun, but I was biting my tongue.

    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 24 2017, @12:23AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 24 2017, @12:23AM (#483449)

      Triggered?