The suspect cost one person thousands of dollars after they had to replace their cell phone four times due to her hacking and harassment, the arrest warrant states.
WOLCOTT, Conn. — A woman in Wolcott claimed someone was repeatedly hacking her and someone else’s phones and social media accounts, but years of state police investigations revealed that she fabricated the whole thing and that she was the one doing the hacking and targeting others.
Deborah Caloutas, 63, turned herself in to State Police on Wednesday on multiple cybercrime charges and for falsely reporting an incident regarding serious injury or death.
Her lawyer, Daniel A. Esposito, said she has no previous criminal record and is entitled to the presumption of innocence. “Ms. Caloutas is likewise protected by the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution as well as Article One, Section Eight of the Connecticut Constitution; she may …