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ICE takes steps to deport the Australian hacker known as “DR32”

Posted on June 8, 2025June 9, 2025 by Dissent

David Kee Crees has been detained by Denver Homeland Security – ICE to be deported. The Australian national was recently released from a federal prison after pleading guilty to hacking and other charges.

David Kee Crees has been detained by Denver ICE to be deported. Image: ICE

The strange case of “DR32” just got a bit stranger. It looks like the Australian national will get a plane ticket back to Australia courtesy of Homeland Security.

David Kee Crees, an Australian national who had also been known online as “Abdilo,” “Notavirus,” “Surivaton”, and “Grey Hat Mafia’s Bitch,” was extradited to the U.S. from Australia in 2022 to stand trial on a 22-count indictment filed by a U.S. grand jury in 2021.

Counts 1 -7  were violation of  18 U.S.C. §§ 1030(a)(2)(C), 1030(b), 1030(c)(2)(B)(i) & 2:  Access a protected computer without authorization for private financial gain

Counts 8-14 were violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1030(a)(5)(A), 1030(b), 1030(c)(4)(A)(i)(I) & 2: Cause damage to a protected computer without authorization, causing loss of at least $5,000

Along the way, and for reasons that were never fully publicly explained, the prosecution agreed to drop 8 counts of the indictment and Crees agreed to plead guilty. With Crees pleading guilty to 14 counts, he faced years in prison, and yet, when time came for sentencing, he was only sentenced to “time served” (while he was in detention awaiting trial) plus one year of supervised release, plus a $1,400.00 fine. There was no restitution even mentioned despite the number of victims affected by his hacking and related activities. DataBreaches.net reported on the sentencing in May. .

On June 4, Homeland Security – ICE in Denver announced it had detained Crees. In a post on X.com (formerly Twitter), they announced:

HSI Denver special agents arrested David Kee Crees, 26, an Australian national with multiple convictions for computer fraud and charges for money laundering, and ID fraud. He will be held in ICE custody pending his removal to Australia.

DataBreaches is not sure how this exactly is a bad outcome for Crees, other than his current detention while the government follows due process procedures to seek his deportation. It’s not even clear to DataBreaches that Cree would fight deportation, as he was never in the U.S. voluntarily to begin with. Perhaps this will wind up just being a free flight home for him.

This post will be updated if more information becomes available.

Related posts:

  • SCOOP: Australian national known as “DR32” to stand trial in U.S. on hacking charges
  • Australian national known as “DR32” sentenced in U.S. federal court (1)
  • With his criminal trial looming, the hacker known as “DR32” pleaded guilty in federal court
  • Is a prosecution in Australia linked to the Lauri Love case in the U.S.?
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