cohasset police
After a former employee in Cohasset, Massachusetts, was accused of stealing thousands of dollars of electricity from a local middle and high school and operating a secret cryptocurrency mine in a seemingly unnoticed crawlspace, police said the suspect was I missed my court date and was concerned that I couldn’t. can’t find.
A warrant was then issued against the suspect, 39-year-old Nadeam Nahas, who resigned from his post in the town of Cohasset last year, police said. That warrant was quickly dropped, but Justin Schreer, a communications expert at the Cohasset Police Department (CPD), told his Ars after Nahas appeared in court today.
The department cannot share any other new information at this time, Shrair told Ars. A possible cryptocurrency mining operation was discovered when he noticed ugly duct work, and a large number of computers. “
To investigate further, CPD told Ars that the director called in various experts. First, her IT chief for the town confirmed that it was a cryptomine “illegally attached to the school’s electrical system.” CPD then called the U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service and the Department of Homeland Security to safely remove the equipment and investigate the origin of the mining equipment.
Their investigation took three months and turned out to be the city of Naha, who was the deputy director of the town at the time. That role is typically responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of town buildings. It was later confirmed by WCVB, an affiliate of Boston ABC, that a mining operation had stolen approximately $18,000 of electricity from the district.
Cryptomining operators may have been motivated to maximize cryptocurrency profits by reducing mining operating costs to zero. The White House reported last year that cryptomining is notorious for consuming too much electricity, with cryptomining around the world requiring more energy than Australia as a whole. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that Cohassett’s location in the Boston area has reported that “electricity prices have exceeded the national average by at least 48%” over the past five years.
The CPD said Nahas was presumed innocent until proven guilty in court, but determined that there were sufficient grounds to indict Nahas for school vandalism and “misuse of electricity.”
