Everywhere you go, you are being videotaped

But this arrest in the Glendale bombing shows how much of a surveillance police state American has become.

If you read this article and the arrest warrant you will see that the cops used surveillance tapes shot at Home Depot and Lowe's of the bomber buying his bombing parts to help make the arrest. The cops also got video surveillance tapes of these suspect's car as he drove to Home Depot and Lowes.

The police also searched the cash register transaction logs looking for the bomb parts that were purchased. And once they found these purchases, they used the date and time of the purchases to look at the store video recordings to get a photo of the person that made the purchase.

So a word to the wise, remember anytime you drive to a store or enter a store you have to assume you and your car are being video taped and that information will later be used against you.

And of course remember that anything and everything you buy from a large store is being recorded onto a computer and the police can probably get a record of the purchase.

And while these criminals didn't use credit cards, remember anytime you use a credit card it can be tracked back to you.

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Arrest made in pipe-bomb explosions at Glendale home

by D.S. Woodfill - Sept. 14, 2012 09:44 PM

The Republic | azcentral.com

Federal agents arrested a Phoenix man in connection with a series of pipe bombings at the home of a Deer Valley Unified School District employee.

Gary Stephen Vogt, described by some neighbors as seemingly harmless and friendly, was arrested about 8:15 a.m. Friday while driving away from his home in the area of the 3200 block of West Villa Rita Drive, said Tom Mangan, a spokesman from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

ATF agents and Glendale and Phoenix police bomb squads carried off evidence, including firearms, from the home, Mangan said. He said Vogt, 50, is accused of two counts of manufacture and possession of unregistered explosive devices, which are punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

Mangan declined to say whether authorities will seek charges stemming from the repeat bombings at Richard and Wanda Gray's Glendale home, near 67th and Olive avenues, and directed questions to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

The arrest comes a little more than a week after the latest explosion at the Grays' house. The galvanized-pipe bomb was detonated in their driveway on Sept. 5, heavily damaging the vehicles parked outside and spraying the garage door with shrapnel. A second bomb placed next to it did not detonate.

The home was targeted with explosives on June 19, 2011, and July 25, 2011, according to the ATF. No one has been injured.

On Sept. 6, authorities released photos of the bomber. The owners had placed security cameras outside the house after one of the bombings, officials said. The photos show a person kneeling in the victims' driveway and igniting the bomb. The bomber then walked back to a four-door white SUV parked across the street, which appeared to be a late-1990s Chevrolet Suburban.

A criminal complaint against Vogt filed with the U.S. District Court in Phoenix says authorities tracked Vogt down by searching sales records for pipe-bomb components at hardware stores.

On Wednesday, investigators discovered two purchases of galvanized end caps and 2- by 8-inch galvanized-pipe nipples from a Home Depot on Aug. 25 and at a Lowe's Home Improvement store on Aug. 29, according to the documents. Both stores are near Interstate 17 and Thunderbird Road.

The stores' camera footage shows a White man making the purchases. The man is similar in appearance to the man captured in images taken by the Grays' security camera.

A camera at the Home Depot parking lot showed a late-model white Chevy Suburban driving off shortly after the purchase, records show.

In both sets of video footage, the man was carrying a black bag that investigators eventually discovered was an oxygen system, documents said.

Authorities said in the court documents that the oxygen tank was what helped Richard Gray identify Vogt.

Gray, a manager of student-support services at the Deer Valley Unified School District, told investigators he didn't recognize the man in the store security footage but knew someone through work who relies on oxygen and may be holding a grudge against him and the district, documents said.

It wasn't immediately clear what connection Vogt had with the district.

Gray has declined interview requests from the media.

According to the documents, he also told authorities that "Vogt has been unhappy on several occasions with the services and/or rulings of the Deer Valley Unified School District and is someone who has made his displeasure known."

Gray told investigators "although the rulings regarding the services are not his sole purview, he (Gray) is clearly the face of the district and its decisions in these types of matters," the documents said. "Mr. Gray believes that Mr. Vogt would consider Gray his nemesis."

On Thursday, investigators obtained a driver's-license photo of Vogt and compared it with the pictures taken by the cameras at Lowe's and Home Depot. According to court records, they concluded that the descriptions matched and tracked down his home from state motor-vehicle records.