FBI tracked down Ghislaine Maxwell using cellphone data
Ghislaine Maxwell, the Jeffrey Epstein associate facing child trafficking charges, was tracked down to her remote hideaway by the FBI using data from her mobile phone, according to court documents.
Maxwell was arrested at the 156-acre property in Bradford, New Hampshire, on 2 July last year, a day after a request was made for a search warrant to “employ an electronic investigative technique … to determine the location of the cellular device”.
The newly unsealed documents, first reported by the Daily Beast, show that the FBI tracked GPS and data use to narrow Maxwell’s whereabouts to an area measuring around 1 sq mile. The former socialite had opened up a mobile phone account under the name “G Max” and used it to communicate with her sister, one of her lawyers and Scott Borgerson, a technology executive.
