When the government was chasing me I wanted to get a sense of how close they were and
to me this was a game.
It was kind of like I was a little bit insane and I treated my fugitive status as a big
video game.
Unfortunately, it had real consequences and why I did this psychologically is I loved
putting myself in dangerous situations and then trying to work my way out of them.
I don't know why I liked doing this, but I did.
So what I did is I hacked into the cellular provider in Los Angeles that serviced the
FBI cell phone numbers of the agents that were chasing me, so to make a long story short
I was able to get the cell phone numbers of the agents and then by hacking into the cellular
provider I could monitor where they physically were, physically in Los Angeles.
I could also monitor who they were calling and who was calling them.
So based on my traffic analysis and my location data I was able to find out if the feds ever
got close and one time they did.
I had an early warning system set up in 1992 when I was working as a private investigator
in Los Angeles and when the warning system was tripped off I found out that the FBI was
actually at my apartment and I was a mile away in Calabasas, but I just drove in from
the apartment to work, so obviously they weren't there to arrest me and I didn't think if they
were still near my apartment that it was to surveil me, so the only logical thing is that
they were there to conduct a search and that means to get a search warrant.
They didn't have a search warrant yet.
So in every criminal case when they have to get a search warrant from a judge they have
to write down the precise description of the premises to be searched.
It's the Fourth Amendment stuff and so I figured out that that was going on and so the very
next day I cleaned up—well that evening I cleaned up everything from my apartment
that the FBI may be interested in and then the very next day went out to Winchell's Donuts
and got a big dozen assorted donuts and I labeled the box "FBI donuts" and I put it
in the refrigerator.
So when they were going to come search the only thing they would find is I had some donuts
for them.
They searched the next day.
They didn't' find anything.
I don't even know if they opened the refrigerator, but if they did they didn't help themselves
to a donut for some reason.
I don't know why.