Matthew Fox Arrested – Matthew Fox Photo Before Altercation

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Matthew Fox of the hit TV series “Lost,” looked sober in the picture above which was taken before his altercation in Cleveland.

Matthew Fox was arrested and detained after allegedly hitting a female bus driver on the chess and stomach.

George Mossey, who was on the picture with a toddler with Fox, wrote on his Twitter account after the incident that hearing that Fox was arrested was unbelievable.

Here is his tweet:

“@RachelNichols1 I do not believe that story about Matthew Fox assulting that woman Saturday night. I saw him that night. He was fine. smh”

According to a police report obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, the actor attempted to hitch a ride to his hotel aboard a private party bus. The driver, a 29-year-old female, blocked the entrance and informed Fox that he could not board, as the bus had been rented out exclusively.

Fox then allegedly attacked the woman and he received a blow to the mouth in return.

Image courtesy of Hollywood Reporter

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Australian man arrested in Ky. in fake bomb case (AP)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A 50-year-old man was captured Monday at his ex-wife's Kentucky home and charged with breaking into an Australian home and chaining a fake bomb to a teenager's neck, the FBI said.

Paul "Doug" Peters was staying at an apartment complex in La Grange, Ky., when he was arrested by a FBI SWAT team, said Elizabeth A. Fries, special agent in charge of the FBI's Kentucky office. La Grange is about 30 miles northeast of Louisville.

He faces charges in Australia that include kidnapping and breaking and entering, said Luke Moore of the New South Wales Police who are located in Sydney. Moore flew to Louisville for the arrest, but would not go into detail about what led police to Peters.

"There was a range of pieces of evidence that led us to identify this suspect," he said at a news conference at FBI offices in Louisville.

Peters is an Australian citizen but has lived in the U.S., including Kentucky.

His ex-wife was not at home at the time of the arrest, and there is no indication she is involved in the case, Moore said.

Peters' initial court appearance was set for Tuesday in Louisville and the extradition process will take about two months, Fries said.

The arrest comes nearly two weeks after 18-year-old Madeleine Pulver was attacked in her home in the wealthy Sydney suburb of Mosman as part of an alleged extortion attempt. Peters had been involved in various businesses but would not elaborate.

She was alone when police say a masked man broke into the house in the middle of the day, chained a device that looked like a bomb to her and left a note with demands before leaving.

Bomb technicians, negotiators and detectives rushed to the scene. Neighboring homes were evacuated, streets were closed and medical and fire crews waited nearby. Pulver spent 10 terrifying hours chained to the device before the bomb squad was able to free her. She was not hurt, and the device was later found to contain no explosives. Australia's prime minister said the event resembled "a Hollywood script."

Police say a note had been attached to the device, but they haven't released details of what it said. Peters had been involved in various businesses but authorities would not elaborate what they involved.

Moore praised the family and said Pulver is "getting on with her life."

The family had been told of the arrest, Moore said.

"Of course, they are relieved that a suspect has been arrested," he said.

Authorities are still investigating why the suspect targeted the young woman, he said.

Police have said they're treating the case as an extortion attempt. The family lives in one of Sydney's ritziest areas and her father, William Pulver, is CEO of an information technology company.

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Associated Press writer Janet Cappiello contributed to this report.

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Suspected ‘Crush’ Video Ring Leaders Arrested

PETA and NBI Investigation of Gruesome Videos Depicting Cruelty to Animals Leads to Arrest of Dorma and Vic Ridon

Burgos, La Union — Dorma (“Chita”) and Vicente Ridon, the couple charged with crimes related to the production of a series of “crush” videos in which scantily clad young girls engage in the torture killing of animals, were arrested by the police early on Tuesday morning in Burgos. The arrests came as the result of a year-long investigation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Asia and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). The Ridons, who have posted bail, have been charged with violations of child abuse (RA 7610) and animal welfare (RA 8485) laws, and expected to face further charges involving human trafficking (RA 9208), and wildlife protection (RA 9147) laws. They are expected to face trial within the year.

PETA’s hotline received more than 200 reports in the week following the group’s appeal for help.

“The vicious disregard for the animal suffering shown in these sadistic videos must be severely punished,” says PETA Asia’s campaigns manager, Rochelle Regodon. “This is a warning to anyone who would commit cruelty-to-animals crimes: The public takes it seriously and will do all it can to see justice served.”

The “crush” videos depict extreme cruelty to animals, including a rabbit as he or she was skinned alive, rabbits as they flailed and screamed while their ears were cut off and as they were set on fire, a dog as he or she was burned with a clothes iron, a monkey and several dogs as they were repeatedly hit in the eye with the sharp end of a stiletto heel, and puppies as they were crushed until they vomited their own internal organs.

For more information, please visit PETAAsiaPacific.com.

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Prominent Web activist arrested over data theft

 Aerial view of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Web activist Aaron Swartz was arrested in Boston today, accused of stealing 4 million documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Jstor, an archive of scientific journals and academic papers, The New York Times is reporting.

It isn't clear why Swartz was allegedly after obtaining the documents, but according to a copy of the indictment, the charges against Swartz by the U.S. Attorney include wire fraud, computer fraud, obtaining information from a protected computer, and criminal forfeiture. If convicted, Swartz faces up to 35 years in prison and three years of supervised release, according to a Boston Herald report.

Software developer Dave Winer has posted a copy of the indictment against Swartz on Scribd.

Swartz, 24, sold a company he founded called Infogami to social-news site Reddit. He also founded the nonprofit group Demand Progress, which has a stated mission of changing public policy that the group believes negatively impacts the Internet. According to Demand Progress' Web site, one of the issues it opposes is the Protect IP Act.

Protect IP, a bill that Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judicial Committee, introduced this year, is designed to speed up the process of blocking access to suspected pirate sites in the United States and elsewhere.

The government claims that Swartz broke into a computer wiring closet at MIT between September 2010 and January of this year. He allegedly used that illegal access to tap into a wire, hack into MIT's network, and then access Jstor's library.

"The downloaded content included more than 4 million articles, book reviews, and other content from our publisher partners' academic journals and other publications; it did not include any personally identifying information about Jstor users," Jstor said in a statement.

According to a story on Boing Boing from 2009, the FBI previously investigated Swartz for participating in a project to take publicly owned U.S. court records from the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) database.

Update, 1:44 p.m. PT: Reddit has denied that Swartz was a founder. According to Alexis Ohanian, he and Steve Huffman founded Reddit. They acquired Swartz's company, infogami, six months after launching Reddit.

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