UConn Police Charge Man With Computer Crimes for Hacking Incident

STORRS, CT — University of Connecticut police have charged a Preston man with fifth-degree computer crimes for allegedly trying to hack into another person's computer.

Lukas Ouellette, 26, of Preston was arrested on Friday in Windham and is due in court on Sept. 27, UConn police said.

Back on May 5, UConn received the hacking complaint, according to an arrest report. A search warrant was issued to Frontier Communications to release the name of the suspect IP address and it came up under Ouellette's home address, according to an arrest report.

Ouellette then admitted to gaining unauthorized access to the victim's computer, police said.

He was subsequently charged with second-degree harassment because he was not supposed to have contact with a woman and he sent her an e-mail, UConn police said.

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