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Community
New Information
in Missing
Person Case
The Citrus County Sheriff's Of-
fice has new information regarding 24
year-old Ashley Ryan Huebsch who has
been missing since June 11th.
Officials received information
that Ashley was seen at the Inverness
Walmart on June 11. After detectives
looked through hours of surveillance vid-
eo - they discovered that Ashley did, in-
deed, have an encounter with an unidenti-
fied man at 2:00 am, June 12. This person
of interest was driving a red truck - also
seen in surveillance footage. apparently
she got into the truck with this man, and
they drove off.
Detectives want to speak with
the man in the surveillance photos. If you
know who this man is, or recognize this
vehicle, please call the sheriff s office at
911 or Crime Stoppers at 888-ANY-TIPS
or by way of its website, www.CrimeStop-
persCitrus.com. You can remain anony-
mous and be eligible for a cash reward if
your information leads to an arrest.
United States Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) officials announced Monday rare manatee twins have been spotted in the waters of Homosassa
On June 26, 2015, Ashley Ryan
Citrus Man
Springs. Florida manatees are listed as endangered and only 2% of all manatee births result in twins. Read full story on page 12
Huebsch was reported as a Missing Adult
Hernando Man Indicted by Feds
to the Citrus County Sheriff s Office.
Ashley R. Huebsch is 5'4" tall, weighs
Indicted for
120 pounds, with brown hair and brown
For Computer Fraud
eyes and has a tattoo of the name "Jer-
emy" on her neck.
Sending Hoax
From The US Dept of Justice
around the world." He likened Darkode to
Twenty-eight year-old *Dewayne
a "one-stop, high-volume shopping venue
Bomb Threats
Watts of Hernando, (Citrus County) Flori-
for some of the world s most prolific cy-
da was one of 12 people within the United
ber criminals." Darkode, an underground,
States indicted by federal officials in a com-
password-protected, online forum, was a
puter fraud conspiracy after investigators in-
meeting place for people interested in buy-
U.S, Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III,
filtrated an organized international computer
ing, selling and trading malware, botnets,
Ocala, announces the return of an indict-
hacking fourm called "Darkode," according
stolen personal identity information, credit
ment charging David Wayne Willmott, Jr.,
to July 15 press releases by the U.S. Dept.
card information and hacked server creden-
24, Inverness, with three counts of making
of Justice and the FBI, which worked with
tials, along with other data and software to
threats to use an explosive device. If con-
Europol and agencies in 19 other countries
facillitate complex cyber crimes all over the
victed, he faces a maximum penalty of 10
to successfully infiltrate, seize and disman-
globe.
years in federal prison for each count.
tle this cyber criminal forum's domain and
The Darkode forum, which had
According to court documents, on three
servers in "Operation Shrouded Horizon."
between 250-300 members, operated very
separate dates, Nov. 25, 2014 and April 17
The forum's **administrator was one of the
carefully, similar to the Mafia, in that mem-
and 23, 2015, e-mails with bomb threats
12 indicted by U.S. federal officials. Arrests,
bership was highly organized amongst the
were sent over the Internet regarding busi-
charges and searches involved 70 Darkode
criminal element, and vetted (not open to
nesses and government facilities in Central
members and associates around the world.
just anyone). Darkode administrators re-
Florida. Locations targeted in the e-mails
According to U.S. Attorney David
quired prospective members to be spon-
included the Crystal River Nuclear Power
J. Hickton (Western District of Pennsylva-
sored by an existing member, after which
Plant, an elementary school, a sheriff's of-
nia), "Of the roughly 800 criminal internet
they were sent a formal invitation to join.
fice, two courthouses, and two airports. In-
forums worldwide, Darkode represented
Responding candidates were required to to
vestigators determined that these e-mails
one of the gravest threats to the integrity of
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Continued on page 4 - Hoax Threats
data on computers in the United States and