Hijacker of 'Sex.com' Is Arrested

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The LA Times.

[snip]

Four years after dodging a $65-million court judgment by fleeing the country, former online-porn mogul Stephen Michael 
Cohen was arrested by Mexican authorities in Tijuana and handed over Thursday to U.S. agents.

Cohen, a multiple felon and longtime con man, had been on the run since before 2001, when a judge ordered him to pay a 
San Francisco entrepreneur for hijacking the Internet address Sex.com. In 1995, Cohen forged a letter to Internet 
authorities to gain control of the address, which he transformed into a highly profitable site for pornography ads.

Cohen, who had been living in a Tijuana mansion, was arrested on an immigration violation by Mexican authorities and 
turned over to agents of the U.S. Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Marshals Service, 
according to Deputy Marshal Tania Tyler.

Cohen was being held without bail at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego.

His apprehension was the latest twist in one of the most bizarre and longest-running feuds of the dot-com explosion.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fi-sex28oct28,0,4207242.story

- ferg


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 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
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