Operation Firewall News Today

Two operations led by LCSO target internet cases against children and human trafficking. Law enforcement experts explain why knowing about these cases can help protect you and your neighbors.

The Capital City Human Trafficking Taskforce launched two separate operations targeting prostitution, sex trafficking and crimes against children.

Top 10 stories of 2020 Staff Reports comes down One limb at a time, the locally famous leaning tree came down Sept. 3. For more than 150 years, the tree stood at a 30-degree angle about 3 miles south of Franklin in the 3500 block of Airport Road. The tree’s removal was initiated after a citizen submitted a formal complaint asking the highway department to look into the safety of it. On June 4, Airport Road, also known as Nineveh Road, was closed after an initial inspection determined the tree...

Dec 11, 2020 / 10:40 PM EST FRANKLIN, Ind. (WISH) — Johnson County officials say multiple people were arrested in a child solicitation investigation. The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office and the Johnson County Prosecutor’s Office announced the charges at a Friday morning press conference. The operation started on Dec. 8. Investigators with the sheriff’s office say detectives created a fake profile of an underage girl was created on a “sex-oriented website,” according to Johnson Count...

PULLING BACK THE CURTAIN: 10 captured in child solicitation operation 12/11/20 8:20 PM Over the course of three days, nine men came to Johnson County intent on meeting a teenager for sex. They drove — some for more than an hour — to undisclosed locations in Greenwood to meet up with undercover detectives posed as an underage girl. It was part of a first-of-its-kind sting operation in the county, dubbed Operation Firewall, a partnership of the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, the Johnson C...

Done a lot of things. >> did not realize the impact of "operation firewall" so much later. the secret service still uses a lot of the same investigative tactics that were learned in quality firewa "firewall." >> this is the transformation from physical crime to online crime and how the law enforcement has to transform v switch to that transformation. >> equifax was hacked. >> the information of 140 million americans breached. >> you look at the number of identities of people have been taken. its...

Investigative -- >> i did not really realize the impact of operation firewall until much later. the secret service still uses a lot of the same investigative tactics that were learned in firewall. >> this case is really about the transformation of physical crime to online crime and the way law enforcement and intelligence has to adapt to that transformation. >> in the age of, hackers are becoming the most dangerous criminals in the world. >> credit bureau equifax hacked and the information of 14...

Together, but it came to a point where we werent making the arrests i thought we should be making, and albert was losing interest. so he wasnt showing up on time, wasnt showing up at all, and i didnt want him there if his head wasnt in the game and he really didnt want to be there. so in the spring of 2007, i asked him to leave, and we cut ties. >> millions of shoppers may have had their credit card information ripped off. somebody hacked into a computer system used by some popular department st...

Trust and then getting to the point where youre ecstatic over a huge investigation that had never been done before, that he was partly responsible for. i felt we had turned him around. but for me it was how much of it was a lie. especially because the career that i have now, every day i have to think about the fact that he helped me get here. it pisses me off. but no matter what happened with albert at the end doesnt take away from everything that was done and accomplished by all the men and wom...

Relationships with over the years. i liked him. i wouldnt have worked with him as long as i did if i didnt like him. i had a level of respect for him that anyone would have with someone who is extremely intelligent and knows something that you know nothing about and is willing to teach you. >> after operation fire wall, there was a disruption in the hacker community. they speculated that somebody was an informant. >> we were worried about alberts safety. we didnt want him to stay in new jersey. ...