Proctor postscript

Who knew The Noticeable One aka The Highway Dandyman aka Mayoral Candidate Aaron Proctor was replete with a Dark Past!?

Given the Sept. 14, 2001 date of this article, one could imagine it was an ill-conceived comment made on the Internet that prompted an over-reactive arrest of our erstwhile resident, candidate and commentator for making terrorist threats:

Growing D.A. unit puts cybercriminals in its sights

Philadelphia Business Journal - September 14, 2001
by Jeremy Feiler

Self-described Goth rock star Aaron Proctor in July threatened to blow up the popular downtown Club Shampoo.

A few months earlier, 15-year-old "P.M." allegedly used the alias of Shaykh Yaseem Bilal Abdur-Razzaq, a supposed lieutenant in the international terrorist network of Osama bin Laden, to threaten a federal judge, Philadelphia's NBC-10 and the editors of the New York Law Journal.

Problem was, both Proctor and P.M. left electronic fingerprints, in the form of Internet Protocol addresses, all over their alleged crime scenes.

Proctor, a 19-year-old Marcus Hook, Pa., resident, now is in jail, nabbed by the cybercrime unit of the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office for making the threats through his Web site the day before he said he would bomb the club. P.M.'s case is being tried before the Philadelphia Family Court for the alleged terrorist threats he made through e-mail. He, too, was caught by the cybercrime team investigators.

"Most of our cases really aren't sexy in this way," said Leonard Deutchman, chief of the economic crimes unit of the D.A.'s Office. "Most of the crimes consist of identity theft, forgery and Ebay fraud, which are incredibly hard and time-consuming to track down."

On the upside, Aaron wouldn't have objected to being described as "sexy."