11.   The robbers, who had been coordinating the heist with walkie-talkies and listening to a police radio scanner, checked the men for cell phones and then slipped out.

12.   The ring was using special radio scanners to listen in on communications between cellular telephones and central switchboards.

13.   They also had radio scanners and books that showed the frequencies for police departments in Texas and the Colorado Springs area.

14.   They brought a briefcase with a steak knife, bandanas, electrical tape, police radio scanner and toy gun inside.

15.   To avoid detection, looters use lookouts, watchdogs and radio scanners to track law enforcement.

16.   Using a commercially available radio scanner, airtime thieves monitor cellular calls, pulling off the airwaves special identification and verification numbers assigned to individual cellphones.

17.   Widely available radio scanners will pick up ordinary analog cellular transmissions.

18.   A telephone conversation between Prince Philip and an unidentified woman was intercepted and taped by a man with a radio scanner, The Sun newspaper reported Tuesday.

19.   Also confiscated were radio scanners, which are banned in Cyprus, he said.

20.   Cypriot police officials said Saturday they found cameras, wireless instruments, tapes of conversations between police, radio scanners and maps in the apartment the two were renting.