Dover Crossings criminal Sarah Kaplan was known to be part of a “phony” project, said a security expert.
It means she’d joined a collective totally separate from normal activity but still a part of everyday life.
In other words, it’s trendy for some but more “in” on life than other crime groups.
There are fears in Policing circles that look into these as to what will come out of it. Usually it’s a sadistic, perverted influence.
The inner circle
It was a coding fraternity. They put ideas into a software coding language people don’t usually know to hide their intent.
Each member had a unique way of using it apart from how others did it. It meant they all came out with different weird stuff.
It’s called COVA, standing for “Community of Virginia”. It’s not made up of Virginians. It means they used the US state to create affinity between themselves.
Maybe it was the landscape, or maybe they all knew someone who lived there once. It helped them to know – and get to work with – each other.
Kaplan’s being
I spoke to an American law enforcement officer. “Kaplan came across as a walking disaster”, he said, “tensions flared up and she didn’t know what to do”.
Kaplan used the Bible. She took sinful acts, and using the syntax of a software programming language, made apps, domains, and even websites.
Her background explains it. She had an interest in J RR Tolkien. She researched in Oxford. She was found in a University library studying his works.
She thinks of England like Middle Earth, a world created by Tolkien. She sees things in these terms; the fantastical, fictional, and even freakish.
In spite of her appearance, her mind is full of animals and mythical beasts. It’s actually a part of an altered criminal mindset.
Her modus
Her associates in the cult are varied. They occupied different jobs the last I heard. She moved off to start her crime.
As her attention turned to the UK the problems began. She had worked herself into a digital criminal network that does “Law Phreaking” here.
It’s run on haphazard systems which don’t often work. It was enough to cover for small gaps in her knowledge. It’s meant to help her think.
Her intent
Her ultimate aim is not out of place in such cults. She intended to create confusion in the UK to make herself into a “Button”.
It’s a word used in merchant circles to describe a person who’s important somehow but has criminal things to get on with.
The trouble is Kaplan made inroads on her plan. It threatened to derail projects and slow government programs.
It wouldn’t have mattered in such exclusive places, or to rich people. Yet people felt it here.
The undoing
As usual, her plan had an effect in local areas. Many career criminals in public-facing jobs spread crime everywhere.
They did it to hide their presence. This is so they could continue to break the law.
They’d be in prison if they were reached, and the spread of crime networks everywhere ensured they couldn’t.
Meanwhile, the Dover Crossings continued. It had started in earnest, and its challenges are still dealt with to this day.
