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[00:00:00] Charles Current: Welcome to The Lock Sportscast, your weekly source for Locksports news. This is episode 100 recorded May 2nd, 2022. I'm your host, Charles current in today's episode. The first lockpicking robot locksmith fatally shot while working fake federal agents get secret service agents suspended and other criminal stories, sales, giveaways, and. 

[00:00:36] you can subscribe to the audio version of the show on most podcasts. And at The Lock Sportscast dot com, you can subscribe to the video version on YouTube Odyssey or apple podcasts. Links to stories discussed will be in the show notes, YouTube, and some apps limit the length of show notes and the ability to post full links. 

[00:00:52] But you can find full show notes with all of the links at The Lock Sportscast dot com. Before I get started today, I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has been following this podcast for any length of time. Everyone who listens and sends in news, we've made it. Regular episode 100 that does not include the interview episodes that I've done also. 

[00:01:14] But 100 weekly episodes, some of them have been late, but we haven't missed one yet. Every week I've put one out for 100 weeks and, uh, that's a huge accomplishment for me with my work schedule as some of you already know. So I just want to thank all of you because it wouldn't have been PacLock. Without all of the support and the information sent in by the community and everyone listening and the patrons and everyone who supports this show. 

[00:01:43] I really, really appreciate you. Thank you all for staying tuned. I might take a break now at some point, but I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for tuning in. And now on a bit of a down note, we had a locksmith who is fatally shot on duty in. The Miami Dade police said around 5:30 PM. They received a ShotSpotter alert in the 10,600 block of Southwest one 70th street. 

[00:02:12] When officers arrived, they found a 32 year old Edwin Molina who had been shot. He was taken to Jackson, south trauma center, where he later died. His mother, Linda Taylor said she was stunned. When she received word that he had died. She said she didn't understand how this could happen and why her son wasn't. 

[00:02:32] He was a hardworking kid. He wasn't bad. He never had any problems with police, no drugs, nothing like that. He was a locksmith and he was working a 26 year old man has been accused of shooting Molina with a shotgun and was detained. Miami-Dade police spokesman said we are trying to figure out exactly what happened in this altercation and why a firearm was present. 

[00:02:55] And obviously. After questioning the 26 year old, he was taken to a local hospital for an involuntary medical evaluation. A judge denied bond for the suspect on a second degree murder charge and set a bond at 10,000 on a burglary charge. So just a reminder to everyone who out there who is a working locksmith situations can be dangerous. 

[00:03:20] And please, please, please. Keep in mind your safety, when you're on the job. If you're responding to a call, there are people out there who may be mentally unstable. There are people out there who might be looking to Rob you of your equipment. Please just be careful approach every situation with some skepticism with that little bug in the back of your head that says, maybe this is a trap and keep an eye out for signs. 

[00:03:47] That something just isn't right. And if you sense anything. It's not worth it. It's not worth your life. And big news this week was we have our first lock picking robot. This is a 3d printed lockpicking robot. And the video that it was showcased in was from sparks and code called it. Didn't have a chance world's first luck pick robot. 

[00:04:15] The description says today we'll be designing and building a lockpicking robot. Why? Because. I had fun making this. I hope you enjoy it too. This was also covered by hacker day in an article called this 3d printed robot can actually pick locks. Pretty interesting. Design goes over the problems that he had and the shortcut he was actually able to take in picking this particular master lock. 

[00:04:40] I don't know that and its current level of programming that it could pick other master locks. He takes a shortcut that I think is very particular to this exact Lock, but he says he might continue to work on it if there's enough interest. So head over and check it out and give him some encouragement in the comments to continue with the design and the programming and on the community front. 

[00:05:04] I just wanted to say congratulations to Albert LaBelle, who reached 3000 subs says thank you all so much. It's going to be doing a giveaway soon. And he is humbled and extremely grateful. Also Locke newb announced this week that he finally passed the 100,000 subscriber mark. So congratulations to lock noob on that. 

[00:05:26] And I hope a lot of people were able to tune into his live, ask me anything I unfortunately was not, but I hope to go back and watch it when I get some time. So congratulations to both of you on your milestone. Moving on to products. If you are familiar with no Sue on discord, he has brought up a new website for some of his products. 

[00:05:51] He H he does some great laser engraved items, including edge lit signs, coasters, and locks, as well as some Locksports tools. So you can find that over at hazardous MFT. Uh, dot com. So H a Z Z E R T O U S M F g.com. Link will also be in the show notes, go over and check that out. Also a reminder to keep your eye out for the release of the latest batch of impressioning handles from rubber band or hooligan keys, or foxhole security, whichever name he happens to be doing that under this. 

[00:06:28] Anyway, uh, hooligan keys.com is where you can find the listing and it's not up yet, but keep your eye out. Also remember that besides Seattle 2022 has a lock picking village that will be Saturday, May 14th, starting at 8:30 AM and head over there and show them support, maybe, uh, help them out in teaching some people how to pick up. 

[00:06:59] In Lock Pickers, United belts. This week, we have one new brown belt goose, 7 7 3, 2, and discord earned a brown belt this week. So congratulations to you. Very, very well done. If you're not familiar with the Lock Pickers United belt system, there are several links in the show notes that will provide you with resources on what it is and how it works and how to play the game. 

[00:07:19] So you can be sure to check those. If you want to join in on the fund and Panda-Frog announced over at speedlocks.org dot org, that they have their first entry for the second lock. A quarter 2022 Gail gains set a benchmark of 3.5 seconds for the Avis 72 40. They also have a first record recorded for the master lock number eight by Jeff and things in 4.838 seconds. 

[00:07:51] So nice job by both of you some very quick times. And I know the first half of this show was pretty light, but we've got several criminal stories coming up, but first we need to take a break and say, thank you to the people that made this episode possible. I would like to start by thanking the newest patron deadbolt cafe for signing up at the co-producer level with that the people that made this episode. 

[00:08:16] Are the Patrion subscribers we have Panda-Frog Michael Gilchrist. Starrylock Williams brain Dave TBD, cipher Liibans Locksports Journey, pat from on sensor tactical three, reckons and coach Chirael. Dr. Hug, master Clayton Howard AK Colton MOG, John Locke, rat yolk, Mr. Becker cranky Lock Pickers. JHP picking bare bones lockpicking and deadbolt cafe Chirael has earned the chief content producer episode again for sending in the most information used in this particular. 

[00:08:43] Other content producers are Albert LaBelle, dark arts lockpicking ifs, who is close second for the chief producer credit, James Randolph, Jeff and things. Jeff Moss, Jimmy longs, Joe pics, John Locke, Joshua Gonzales, Panda-Frog rubber band tequila, Dave Tony valley and Zachary Willard. Thank you to all of you for your support. 

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[00:10:47] Moving onto the criminal news. Officials are investigating a smash and grab at a locksmith shop in Fife, Washington. The Puget sound locksmith in Fife, Washington was targeted by intruders who broke through the front glass mangled the middle. I'm not sure if they drove a car in through the front. It's kind of what it looks like. 

[00:11:10] The locksmith says they took a couple pieces of equip. But didn't want to go into too much detail about what those were. It says, do you have to have locksmith knowledge to know what it is and how to use it? But other than that, they also made a pretty feeble attempt at getting into the safe, nothing was missing from the safe and said, this was the third time someone had broken into his business. 

[00:11:33] Two things. One, if this is the third time, maybe need to pay attention to improving security a bit. You're a locksmith. I'm sure there are ways to do. I also want to highlight the manager statement. You have to have a locksmith knowledge to know what it is and how to use it about the equipment that was stolen. 

[00:11:51] It would appear from previous articles. I've covered that many of these criminals do have that knowledge or are selling the equipment to people that do. So if you're a locksmith, be careful lock your stuff up, makes her secure and always be suspicious when you're being called to. Of a lockout or anything like that. 

[00:12:13] And in Youngstown, a man was arrested for tampering with laundromat coin machines and Ohio man is facing charges. After he allegedly tried to break into machines at a Mercer county business Grove city police charged the suspect with attempted theft receiving stolen property and possession of instruments of crime. 

[00:12:33] They say surveillance video shows that he went to the leisure time laundry on west main street in Grove city on April 24th and used keys and lock, picking tools to attempt to break into four different machines. The Chippewa police department was able to identify the suspect during the course of an investigation into similar crimes. 

[00:12:54] He was eventually arrested in Boardman and booked into the Mahoning county jail. He has been charged with several charges, including possession of drugs, inducing, panic, obstructing official business, resisting rest, and attempting theft. He is being held on a $15,000 bond. So they're not real clear on what lock, picking tools he used, but they do say that the video shows him using lock, picking tools. 

[00:13:22] So a lockpicking criminal and this story, uh, it did mention Lock Pickers. Fair to cover here. Prosecutors say impersonators who duped secret service agents are dangerous flight risks. This was reported, uh, by CNN and also a few other sites who picked up. They say the justice department says two men charged with impersonating federal agents pose a danger to the community and a flight risk citing a stockpile of weapons found in their apartments, extensive overseas travel and foreign contexts, including an uncorroborated connection to the Pakistani intelligence service in a memo. 

[00:14:03] Prosecutors wrote that the suspect's compromised federal law enforcement operations, and created a potential risk to national. They say the defendants were not merely playing dress up. They had firearms, they had ammunition, they had body armor. They had tactical gear. They had surveillance equipment. The suspects were arrested earlier this week and charged with impersonating department of Homeland security agents. 

[00:14:26] For more than two years, they gave extensive gifts to federal agents and provided them apartments in Washington, DC, according to the. One of them allegedly offered to purchase a $2,000 assault rifle for a secret service agent. On the first lady's protective detail, according to the affidavit filed, prosecutors have not provided an alleged motive or the purpose of the fake operation authorities also haven't identified any specific source of money that funded it. 

[00:14:55] They say, despite the fact that neither defendant is employed by the United States. There impersonation scheme was sufficiently realistic to convince other government employees, including law enforcement agents. According to the prosecutors, they also said that they pretended to recruit other individuals to law enforcement and their fake operation and leveraged their phony law enforcement status to integrate themselves into other law enforcement agencies in sensitive positions. 

[00:15:23] After their arrest. Prosecutors say one of them told investigators that the other funded most of their day to day operation, but added that he did not know where the money came from. The suspect he implicated in funding. It had been under investigation by the HSI Newark office and the us postal service for fraudulent activity stemming from an alleged credit card ring scheme, according to two law enforcement sources, the status of that investigation remains unclear. 

[00:15:52] The pair were also in possession of immigration documents for a number of individuals, according to prosecutors, and had significant access to information about other tenants in the Washington DC apartment complex, where they, and a number of law enforcement officials resided, including the electronic access codes and list of each tenant. 

[00:16:12] In addition, prosecutor said the pair had a machine to make personal identification verification cards, as well as passport for. Witnesses saw one of them with a PIV card that he used to log into his laptop that had DHS label on it. According to the prosecutor's memo, he also had multiple copies of his driver's license and various ID cards. 

[00:16:36] And the other had traveled to Iran and had two visas from Pakistan and one for travel to. Other court documents filed Tuesday, alleged that while posing as a chess official, one suspect instructed a witness to conduct research into an individual who provided support to the department of defense and intelligence community. 

[00:16:58] According to a memo, the suspects were stockpiling weapons and law enforcement equipment in multiple apartments that they leased in a DC apartment. In some of the apartments investigators discovered surveillance equipment, including 30 hard drives, hard drive copying equipment and a high end drone as well as clothing with police insignias, police parking, placards, and latent fingerprint kit, and a lock picking kit. 

[00:17:22] According to the detention memo. Prosecutors also say that one suspect had pled guilty to a misdemeanor assault and battery of his wife into Virginia court in 2013 and is prohibited from owning firearm. They say for secret service employees have been suspended after allegedly being duped by the two suspects. 

[00:17:41] Two of the four officials are agents and two are uniformed division officers in a statement. The secret service previously said that it is taking the incident extremely seriously, working with federal authorities and conducting its own review. The statements said, although this is an ongoing investigation, we have found no evidence of any. 

[00:18:02] Security impacts or improper access to sensitive information systems or protected locations at this time. So kind of a wild story. I'm covering it here because it says that they had a luck baking kit. So yeah, how's that for social engineering convince a whole bunch of law enforcement officers, secret service agents and whatnot that you are a federal agent with da. 

[00:18:31] Wow, that that's all I can say. Just, wow. All right. Moving on to sales, the bare bones lockpicking codes that I had have expired, just so everybody knows. However, if you want to shop@lockpickmall.com, you have a choice of three discount codes. Now we have a new one from dark arts. Lockpicking called dark VIP. 

[00:18:54] Albert LaBelle has a code Albert and Joe pics has a code, Joe. Any one of those three can be used@lockpickmall.com at checkout. When I went to check and see if Matt's luck pit was having a sale still on picks, it appears the site is down. I'm not sure what is up with that, but I'll check again. Later this week over at 3d Locksports dot com. 

[00:19:19] You can save 10% on your favorite 3d printed Locksports accessories with the code LS cast. Over at Maaco lock. So you can use the code by Maaco at checkout for 15% off at UK Lock Pickers dot co.uk. Use the code gift for 10% off in giveaways. We have the giveaway from locks, wood who doesn't love pre tools. 

[00:19:45] The hashtag locks would give. That giveaway. He is doing one large main prize and four smaller runner-up prizes. So lots of chances to get into that runs until the 15th of May, 2022. So good luck and get entered. The Joe picks and John locked 500 subscribers devil giveaway is still running through May 10th. 

[00:20:11] So go over there and watch both of their videos. Links to both will be in the show notes in case you don't already subscribe. But head over there and check out their channels and their videos to figure out how to get entered in the giveaway. Zachary Willard has a 100 subscriber giveaway challenge. The hashtag duck duck boost giveaway. 

[00:20:29] So head over and watch the video in the show notes over there for your chance to win. Get your entries in before May 18th and the hashtag mini Panda-Frog to. Running until many Panda-Frog two is born, which is currently expected. The 8th of June, 2022 don't delay get entered. Now, sometimes they come early, so you have four chances to win. 

[00:20:54] So get over there and check that out. It says prizes grow as the amount of entries grow. So get in. If you're willing to giveaways the hashtag lockbox giveaway from CLK supplies is always a good one to get entered in. They usually have really good prices because they are a locksmith supplier. So check that out. 

[00:21:14] And I know this was a short episode. I apologize for that, but hopefully I'm able to get back on doing more research on my own in the coming weeks, as my schedule continues to stabilize, um, just off of my. Really busy work schedule coming on to where I actually get my days off, like I'm supposed to, but I have a lot of catching up to do on housework and car maintenance and stuff like that. 

[00:21:38] So it might be a little while before things really settled down, but hopefully soon we'll get everything back to normal. Please remember to continue to send any information you have. That's Locksports related. Even if you don't think it's important or you think it's so big that everybody's ever already sent it to me, please send it. 

[00:21:56] I'm really not able to check as much as I would like to. And I really, really, really appreciate the support. So thank you everyone for making 100 episodes possible. I wish I could have done a special episode for this by just didn't have the time. So thank you. Keep it .