SAN JOSE, Calif. _ It was an out-of-place detail in an out-of-town theft that tipped San Jose police detective Mike Niehoff to a massive Internet fraud.

Two brothers are prison in California after a tech-savvy police officer busted an Internet fraud ring. San Jose police detective Mike Niehoff was tipped off when a suspicious man came to a San Jose man's house to buy a computer using a PayPal account.

By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Jul. 8--Veteran San Jose detective Mike Niehoff's dogged persistence has been the undoing of criminal street gangs and Internet frauds.