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==Arrest== Gonzalez was arrested on May 7, 2008, on charges stemming from hacking into the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_%26_Buster%27s Dave & Buster's] corporate network from a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_sale point of sale] location at a restaurant in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islandia,_New_York Islandia, New York]. The incident occurred in September 2007. About 5,000 card numbers were stolen. Fraudulent transactions totaling $600,000 were reported on 675 of the cards.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-D.26B_13-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Gonzalez#cite_note-D.26B-13 [13]]</sup> Authorities became suspicious after the conspirators kept returning to the restaurant to reintroduce their hack because it would not restart after the company computers shut down.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-D.26B_13-1">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Gonzalez#cite_note-D.26B-13 [13]]</sup> Gonzalez was arrested in Room 1508 at the National Hotel<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Gonzalez#cite_note-14 [14]]</sup> in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Beach,_Florida Miami Beach, Florida]. In various related raids, authorities seized $1.6 million in cash (including $1.1 million in plastic bags in a three-foot drum buried in his parents' backyard),<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MiamiHerald_1-3">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Gonzalez#cite_note-MiamiHerald-1 [1]]</sup> his laptops and a compact [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock_pistol Glock pistol].<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYDN_4-1">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Gonzalez#cite_note-NYDN-4 [4]]</sup> Officials said that Gonzalez lived in a nondescript house in Miami.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYDN_4-2">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Gonzalez#cite_note-NYDN-4 [4]]</sup> He was in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Detention_Center,_Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn Brooklyn] when he was indicted in the Heartland attacks.
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