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Sex.com domain hijacker captured | CNET News.com

Sex.com domain hijacker captured | CNET News.com:
Sex.com hijacker Stephen M. Cohen was taken into custody Thursday by U.S. enforcement officials, ending four years spent on the lam after a court ordered him to pay $65 million in restitution.

Cohen's arrest adds a new chapter to a bizarre, high-profile case borne out of the dot-com bubble. In late 2000, a U.S. District Court ordered Cohen to return control of the Sex.com domain, which he had been using to operate a pornography site, to its original owner, Gary Kremen. Then in 2001, the court ordered Cohen to pay Kremen a $65 million judgment.

Cohen, a fugitive residing in Tijuana, was detained by Mexican authorities when he tried to renew his work permit to operate another Internet pornography site. Mexican authorities, aware that Cohen faced an outstanding arrest warrant in the U.S., turned him over to the U.S. Marshals Service and U.S. Border Patrol, said Tania Tyler, a deputy marshal and spokesperson for the Marshals Service.