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Police arrest three for satellite signal theft

WHITBY – After a short undercover police investigation into the theft of satellite signals, Durham Regional Police arrested three men on Friday. Project Orbit took place in June and grew from an earlier investigation in Port Perry where a man and woman were charged with providing access to illegal satellite television signals. That investigation identified several other businesses in Durham Region in which satellite systems were sold and encryption codes provided to illegally access television and audio channels, said the press release issued late Friday on the matter. Undercover officers attended two businesses to purchase satellite equipment (pictured below) and...