Florence Volunteer Fire Department case

Dates for preliminary hearings have been set for two of the former members of the Florence Volunteer Fire Department charged with multiple counts of arson.

24 year old James Clayton MacDonald, of Point Aconi; will be back in court September 20th on 26 charges, including 18 of arson.

50 year old Stephen Eric Tremblett of North Sydney, has his prelim set for November 27th on 18 counts including 15 of arson.  No injuries were reported in any of the fires.

Hacker arrested in Ontario

An Ontario man, originally from Kazakhstan; has been arrested in connection with the U-S investigation into a massive cyber attack on Yahoo three years ago.

22 year-old Karim Baratov was arrested outside Hamilton at the request of American officials.  He’s accused of being one of the hackers involved in the security breach, along with two Russian intelligence officers.  500 million user accounts belonging to American government officials, Russian journalists opposed to Vladimir Putin; and ordinary email users were affected.