Sorry Charlie!

[LBernier at tribune.com]

     Thought this amusing enough to share . . .
     
     From Wired Online:
     
     Tuna Lands Mitnick in Solitary
          by Rebecca Vesely 
     
     There's something fishy at the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention 
     Center: Notorious computer hacker Kevin Mitnick has been in solitary 
     confinement since Friday for allegedly having 74 cans of tuna in his 
     cell. 
     
     "Our sources say he is indeed a repeat violator of the unauthorized 
     possession of tuna," said Mitnick's attorney, Donald C. Randolph. "But 
     we are not 100 percent sure as of now." 
     
     Reports that Mitnick was placed in solitary for possession of back 
     issues of the hacker magazine 2600 are apparently not true. "It does 
     seem a little severe," Randolph said, but he added that Mitnick had 
     been warned several times by the center's authorities when caught with 
     tuna in his cell. Randolph was confident that Mitnick would be out of 
     solitary by Tuesday morning. 
     
     Officials at the LA detention center said Monday only that Mitnick was 
     placed in solitary confinement for "security reasons." 
     
     Mitnick was arrested in February 1995 after a nationwide search by 
     federal investigators that later became the subject of several books. 
     He faces three separate federal indictments: possession of cellular 
     phone account information; violating the conditions of a supervised 
     release program that relates to a 1989 conviction of computer fraud; 
     and for alleged computer fraud committed between November 1992 and his 
     arrest in 1995. 
     
     On 31 September, Mitnick and his longtime friend Lewis DePayne pleaded 
     not guilty to charges that they allegedly stole millions of dollars in 
     software from computer companies all over the world. Mitnick's next 
     court date is scheduled for 21 January, said an assistant to his 
     attorney. When asked why Mitnick had so many cans of tuna in his cell, 
     Randolph said, "Fish is brain food, you know."