Police arrests “Bitcoin Barron” in Arizona

Randall Charles Tucker, the hacker behind a string of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against small towns in the U.S., has been arrested in Arizona.

He is accused of computer tampering. He frequently threatened and attacked towns whose governments, he believed, were acting unfairly, citing that he wanted to protect the innocent from police brutality.

Prior to the attack on the Arizona government's website, he threatened via video and e-mail:

"Hello, My name is Bitcoin Baron and I have something for you. I'm currently attacking mesaaz.gov for their incompetence in the fact that they didn't keep Ryan Giroux in prison for life for his other felonies, but instead he was out and able to kill someone and injure others."

In yet another attack against Moore, Oklahoma, he threatened to shut down city websites and demanded a ransom of 100 bitcoins after a man died in police custody. He also claims that he has social security numbers and credit card information.