Have AT&T cell service? It may have just gotten faster in Indianapolis

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Indianapolis is the first U.S. city to reap the benefits of a new technology being deployed by AT&T, according to Michael Huber, president and CEO of Indy Chamber, bringing the city closer to 5G cellular data service.

Parts of Downtown Indianapolis are now covered by AT&T’s LTE-LAA, a cellular technology that is capable of reaching data speeds that are very close to one gigabit per second. AT&T was one of the first carriers to observe actual peak wireless speeds of 979 megabits per second with LTE-LAA, according to a company press release.

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Officials: Recovered drone was bringing drugs, cell phones to Lewis Prison

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In a first for Arizona prisons, guards at Lewis Prison in Buckeye recovered a crashed drone that was trying to deliver drugs and cell phones to inmates.

Similar incidents have been happening around the country, and now, it has happened in the Valley. Keeping contraband out of prisons is a top priority for the state’s Department of Corrections, but technology presented a new challenge at Lewis Prison.

Investigators believe a drone tried to make a delivery to the prison yard in late September, but it crashed, and guards found the device, as well as the contraband.

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Wireless carriers on mute as Supreme Court hears big privacy case

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The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider a major cellphone privacy case later this month, but leading players in the wireless industry that is at the center of the closely watched dispute are keeping their distance. The case, to be heard by the justices on Nov. 29, involves whether a warrant is required for authorities to obtain cellphone location information that could implicate criminal suspects, the latest in a string of Supreme Court cases on privacy rights in the digital age.

Of the four major U.S. mobile phone carriers — Verizon Communications, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile US — only Verizon has taken a stand in the case. Verizon joined a legal brief with technology companies including Alphabet’s Google and Apple calling for stronger protections for the privacy of customer data.
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Sentencing Friday for woman convicted of murdering daughter, husband

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A woman who shot her 14-year-old daughter and husband in their San Carlos condominium, then stayed with the bodies for three days before reporting the deaths, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday at the downtown courthouse. Regina Johnson, 60, was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder in the May 30, 2012, deaths of Aaliyah Johnson and Reuben Johnson. She faces 80 years to life in prison. Deputy District Attorney Nicole Rooney said the defendant and her daughter once had a good relationship, but circumstances in the house changed and nobody really knew what was going on behind closed doors. Johnson testified that she shot her 56-year-old spouse after he killed their daughter, but Rooney told jurors that “objective” physical evidence belied the defendant’s story, from cell phone records that tracked her husband’s movements to bullet trajectories and a jar of petroleum jelly that the teen was holding.

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Judge blocks Google evidence from Troy murder trial

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Rensselaer County prosecutors will not be able to use Google technology to try to prove Johnny Oquendo strangled 21-year-old Noel Alkaramla and dumped her body in a suitcase in the Hudson River. In a strongly worded three-page ruling issued Thursday, state Supreme Court Justice Andrew Ceresia determined prosecutors for District Attorney Joel Abelove “failed to meet their burden of demonstrating that the science underlying Google location services has gained general acceptance in the in the relevant scientific community.”

Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of Oquendo, 40, who is charged with second-degree murder, concealment of a human body and criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation, a misdemeanor. He faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted.

Alkaramla, whose mother had been married to Oquendo, disappeared after a co-worker at Verdile’s restaurant in Troy dropped her off on Third Street, the street where the defendant lived, around 9 a.m. on Nov. 22, 2015.

Prosecutors say Oquendo, who is a registered sex offender, choked Alkaramla to death on the third floor of his apartment at 170 Third St. They allege he stuffed the 5-foot-1-inch, 135-pound woman into a suitcase and dumped her in the river. She was found Dec. 30, 2015 near the USS Slater, the World War II Navy destroyer escort docked along the Hudson in Albany.

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