US EditionHow 'technofile' Michael Damron brought Fargo-Moorhead to its knees
- In January 1995, a telephone outage affected Fargo and Moorhead, cutting over 20,000 phone lines and causing more than $1 million in damages, according to the Fargo Police Department case file.
- Investigators found evidence linking Michael Damron to the crime, including a map of cable cut locations, bootprints, and cut wires, according to US West management.
- Damron fled after police searched his apartment but was eventually captured by the FBI nearly two years later.
- In 1997, Damron pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 years in prison for tampering and burglary, with a restitution fee of $250,000 to the phone company, according to the Cass County District Court Judge Wade Webb.
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How 'technofile' Michael Damron brought Fargo-Moorhead to its knees
FARGO — About three hours before dawn on Jan. 22, 1995, a telephone call on his landline awakened Fargo Police Detective Larry Lies. “A phone outage had taken place, affecting a large portion of Moorhead, Minnesota and long-distance calls in northwest Minnesota,” he was told, according to the Fargo Police Department case file obtained by Forum News Service. Lies hurried to the site at the First Avenue North bridge and discovered a manhole cover …
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