Less than 24 hours after Palm Beach State Attorney David Aronberg announced that criminal charges would be filed against the cop who shot and killed Corey Jones, deputies raided the home of a man accused of making online threats against the prosecutor under the guise of the cyberhack group Anonymous.
Nathan Dimoff, 24, one of several activists arrested last month for protesting against Aronberg for not having yet filed charges against Palm Beach Gardens police officer Nouman Raja, is now accused of posting the prosecutor’s personal information on Anonymous Florida, a website that proclaims to be a subgroup to the international cyberhack group.
Dimoff, who runs the South Florida CopWatch page, said deputies from both Lee and Palm Beach counties raided his Lee County home this morning, banging on his door and ordering him out at gunpoint while they ransacked the home.
“They said it was my IP address that leaked the information,” he said in a telephone interview with Photography is Not a Crime about an hour after the raid.
They handed him a search warrant, then spent the next hour searching the home, seizing computers, tablets and phones before they left.
The search warrant, which can be read here, lists other names, so more raids should be expected. Dimoff said they also raided his mother’s home who lives nearby but did not seize anything.
According to the warrant, the deputies were looking for evidence of the felonies posted below, essentially trying to intimidate or extort public officials with threats.
So what exactly did get leaked?
Judging by the Florida Anonymous page, the most important leak was Aronberg’s home address, but that is not much of a leak considering you can find the same information with a few key strokes on Spokeo as you can see in the bottom portion of the image below. Also leaked were some emails and a cell phone number belonging to Aronberg’s wife.
There is also a video that was posted in the usual Anonymous style with a mask-wearing figure speaking in a computer generated voice, telling Aronberg to either file charges against Raja or step down from office, or be faced with the prospect of Anonymous members showing up to his doorstep.
Dimoff, who is still facing trespassing charges from last month’s protest, has set up a legal defense fund.
We will be updating this story as it develops.
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