A retired Nevada cop who headed up a Cyber Crimes Unit has been charged with burglary, bigamy, and forgery. 

Former Washoe County Sheriff’s deputy Dennis Carry was arrested on Tuesday on seven different felony counts following a two-year investigation by the Reno Police Department. 

The 46-year-old was previously in charge of the Cyber Crimes Unit at the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office before being placed on administrative leave in March 2019. During the course of the investigation by Reno police, Carry formally retired from WCSO.

Court documents show that Carry was already married when he walked down the aisle with Carla Baldwin, a federal magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. 

Carry wed his first wife, Wendy, in South Lake Tahoe in 1996. Then, in late May 2018, Carry tied the knot with Baldwin in California despite not having obtained a divorce from his first wife.

In March 2019, both of the former deputy’s wives sought to sever their matrimonial bonds with Carry. Wendy filed for divorce about two weeks after Baldwin formally began annulment proceedings.

In July 2019, former Washoe County family court judge David Humke said that RPD investigators had spoken to him concerning allegations that Carry had broken into his office and hacked into his computer. The RPD were looking into claims that Carry had illegally accessed Humke’s computer in order to create fake court documents he could use to convince Baldwin that he was no longer married to his first wife.

The allegedly forged documents, dated May 9, 2018, divided up Wendy and Dennis Carry’s mortgage debt while assigning the bulk of the couple’s credit card debt to Dennis Carry. 

No mention is made in the allegedly fake paperwork of the 2018 Tesla or the $608k home that Carla Baldwin Carry and Dennis Carry bought months before Wendy Carry filed for divorce. Wendy Carry’s attorneys are claiming for both these purchases since they were made while Dennis Carry was still married to her.

WCSO spokesperson Bob Harmon said in July 2019 that he didn’t know if the department was aware that their former deputy was simultaneously going through two separate marriage-ending proceedings. 

The organizers of an English beauty pageant established over nine decades ago are being held to ransom by cyber-criminals.

The Daily Mail reports that malicious hackers targeted the organizers of Miss England on Tuesday night with a sophisticated online scam. 

Pageant organizer and former Miss England Angie Beasley was sent what appeared to be an authentic message from the administrators of the social media app Instagram informing her that she had violated the app’s rules and asking her to confirm her phone number. 

“The message said I had broken rules and they were going to close the account down. It included a link you could click to appeal the decision,” said Beasley.

“I had no idea what it was all about as we only put good things and charity appeals on there. I clicked on the link and got another message saying it could see I was trying to access the appeal form and could I confirm my phone number, which I did.

“I got sent a code which I then gave to them and then everything just went. The next thing I knew the whole account whizzed in front of me on my phone and the account was taken over.”

By clicking on the link, Beasley unwittingly gave the hackers access to the pageant’s Instagram account, which has over 20,000 followers. After gaining access to the account, the hackers changed the password and locked Beasley out. 

The next day, Beasley received a message on her cell phone asking her if she wanted to “make a deal” to recover the locked account. 

Beasley contacted Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting center for fraud and cybercrime, who reached out to local police in Leicestershire, where Miss England is headquartered. 

Instagram’s owners, Facebook, said that the hacked Miss England account has now been secured and restored to the account owner. 

In 2020 the Miss England pageant was cancelled because of the global outbreak of Covid-19. The last woman to win the Miss England title was Bhasha Mukherjee in 2019. 

Mukherjee, a junior doctor who holds two degrees, cut her overseas work as a charity ambassador short last year to continue her career as a doctor in the UK amid the coronavirus pandemic.

An end-to-end multicloud technology solutions company based in Texas has been recognized for achieving workplace equality for a fourth consecutive year.

Rackspace Technology announced today that it received a score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) and was named as one of the “Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality.”

The HRC Foundation’s CEI was established nearly two decades ago to be a primary driving force for workplace inclusion. It provides companies with a national benchmarking tool against which to measure corporate policies, practices, and benefits pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) employees.

A total of 1,142 companies participated in the CEI 2021 Survey, including 233 Fortune 500 employers and 149 Law Magazine 200 law firms. 

Headquartered in Windcrest, Rackspace designs, builds, and operates cloud environments across all major technology platforms, irrespective of technology stack or deployment model. In addition to this recent accolade, the company has been named a best place to work by Great Place to Work Institute, Fortune, Forbes, Glassdoor, and Military Times. 

“Rackspace Technology is honored to be recognized by the Human Rights Campaign for our commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are dedicated to creating a workplace where Rackers can be their authentic selves and leverage their diverse perspectives to spark innovation,” said Chinten Parikh, senior director of global diversity, inclusion, and belonging at Rackspace Technology. 

“This recognition celebrates our progress and challenges us to climb even higher.”

The CEI rates companies on detailed criteria under the categories of non-discrimination policies across business entities; equitable benefits for LGBTQ workers and their families; supporting an inclusive culture; and corporate social responsibility.

“From the previously unimaginable impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, to a long overdue reckoning with racial injustice, 2020 was an unprecedented year. Yet, many businesses across the nation stepped up and continued to prioritize and champion LGBTQ equality,” said HRC president Alphonso David.  

“Our participating companies know that building an LGBTQ-inclusive workplace is not just the right thing to do, it is also the best business decision, allowing companies to attract, retain and engage top talent.”