Man Fined for Using Cell Jammer App

A Florida man has been slapped with the highest FCC fine possible after he admitted to using an app while driving for years.

Sixty-year-old Jason Humphreys said he'd used the 'Cell Phone Jammer' app on his daily commute for roughly two years because he didn't want drivers around him talking on their cell phones.

A cell phone company got suspicious when they noticed something scrambling the signal on their towers during certian times of the day. Investigators say they tracked the trouble to an enormous cell hpone jammer. And Jason Humphreys had wedged it into his SUV.

"It was pretty amazing. We've seen some pocket jammers before, but nothing of this scale and magnitude. It was capable and did shut down actual entire cell sites," said Maj. Clyde Eisenberg with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. "When the deputies made the traffic stop on the suspect, their radios ceased functioning. When our communications system is shut down, it affects everyone in Hillsborough County."

'Cell Phone Jammer' blocks cell phones, but also police radios, it can scramble aircraft communications and keeps pepole from using their cell phones to call 911.

Humphreys was fined $48,000.