Hi, I'm Ran Levy. Welcome back to Cyber reasons Malicious Life. It's early June 2011.

A Khan-Edson truck is parked outside the Jacob Reese housing projects, a quarter mile park of tall and uniform low-income apartment buildings on Manhattan's lower east side.

Con Edison is the power company for over a million residents of New York City,

so seeing them around shouldn't have been immediately suspicious.

But Hector Monsieur, a heavy set amiable 28-year-old Puerto Rican man with shaved head and goatee had a feeling that they weren't there for

routine maintenance. The truck was parking outside of his building every day for over a week already.

In an interview with Charlie Rose for CBS this morning, he left about it.

You know what was the greatest indication?

The mailman was hanging out with the Con Edison guy in front of my building.

It's kind of random, so I knew something was off.

As Hector tells it, June 7th began like any other morning. He woke up and walked his two young cousins, whom he has sole guardian ship over and refers to

as his daughters to school.

Quote, and on my way back, I'm noticing there's random people parked in random cars,

and just nothing makes any sense.

I've never seen these people before, never seen these cars before.

End quote.

As he walked toward his home, a man in one of the cars was holding a newspaper.

But instead of reading the paper, the man was staring at him.

Hector got inside, went up to his sixth floor apartment, cleaned it up a bit, then took a nap.

The afternoon was extra hot, almost 90 degrees when he picked up his daughters from school.

But knowing it might be their last memory together for a while, he grabbed some cash and took

them on a shopping spree.

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