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(Jan. 1) – Online gaming offers you a new life: new friends, new face, new clothes, new home, new everything. It sounds like a perfect spot for a someone hiding from the law. But not quite perfect. Two weeks ago, an Indiana sheriff's deputy tracked down a fugitive by first locating him in the online game World of Warcraft, the Kokomo Perspective reports.
The sheriff's department of Howard County had been searching for Alfred Hightower for two years without any luck, even with the help of U.S. marshals under Operation Falcon. From what Deputy Matt Roberson could piece together, he had left the country.
But he was still online.
Still, Roberson started asking around, and through a number of sources he figured out that Hightower, who was wanted on drug charges, was playing an online game – "some witches and warlocks game," he was told. Roberson knew what he was hearing.
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The sheriff's department of Howard County had been searching for Alfred Hightower for two years without any luck, even with the help of U.S. marshals under Operation Falcon. From what Deputy Matt Roberson could piece together, he had left the country.
But he was still online.
Still, Roberson started asking around, and through a number of sources he figured out that Hightower, who was wanted on drug charges, was playing an online game – "some witches and warlocks game," he was told. Roberson knew what he was hearing.
Perp caught through World of Warcraft
Indiana cops caught a fugitive by getting Blizzard to turn over the IP address from which he was playing World of Warcraft: Howard County, Indiana Sheriff Department Deputy Matt Roberson…
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