April 25th, 2006
Speaking to the dead � digitally:
Not really crime related but unfortunately crimes have victims. This article talks about how some people use MySpace to mourn their friends or family or even strangers who have died who had a MySpace account while living.
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April 24th, 2006
5 Riverton students charged with felonies:
We now have the names of the Riverton High School shooting plot suspects…
Coy New, 18; Caleb Byrd, 16; Robby Hunt, 17; Andrew Jaeger, 15; and James Tillman, 16; were each charged in Cherokee County District Court with one count of incitement to riot and one count of criminal threat.
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April 23rd, 2006
Alleged threats on MySpace postpone game:
This is the first time I’ve ever heard a threat being made against a baseball game…
Friday�s high school baseball game between West Haven and host Career was postponed because of alleged threatening postings on the Web site MySpace.com.
Joe Canzanella, the New Haven Supervisor of Athletics, said he made the […]
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April 22nd, 2006
MySpace.com leads detectives to two suspects:
Some more criminal masterminds at work…
PATTERSON � It was the next best thing to leaving a calling card.
Investigators said two teens who “completely thrashed” three building contractors’ trailers this week used a computer in one of them to access several pornography sites. One of the boys also logged onto his […]
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April 22nd, 2006
I originally told you about a situation in Coon Rapids, Minn. here where an unknown student made a fake MySpace profile of one of the teachers from Rapids Middle School. At the time I wondered what was so bad to warrant felony charges. Now we know…
Authorities blame 8th grader for Web hoax:
COON RAPIDS, Minn. - […]
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April 22nd, 2006
MySpace lawsuits on the rise:
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The popular web site MySpace is prompting legal battles in Florida and around the country.
A Sarasota teacher is suing a high school student who posted demeaning sexual comments alongside her picture. The school suspended the boy, but the teacher said she doesn’t think the punishment was harsh […]
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April 22nd, 2006
Pearl Students Accused Of Internet Threat:
PEARL, Miss. — A threat made on a popular teen Web site has resulted in the arrest of two Pearl Junior High School students.
Pearl Police Chief Bill Slade said the students created a page on the Xanga Web site using Luke Woodham’s name.
The student who received the threat on the […]
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April 21st, 2006
I have it on very good authority that this (link removed. see here.) is the MySpace of one of the other suspects in Riverton High School shooting plot.
Notice that he lists his heroes as Charles Manson, Hitler, Stalin.
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April 21st, 2006
THIS IS SPECULATION ONLY—THIS HAS NOT BEEN SUBSTANTIATED YET
I got an e-mail from a reader who calls himself Tim27. He says that this is the MySpace of one of the kids from Riverton High School in Kansas who were arrested for plotting to attack their school.
He claims he got the information after reading this girl’s […]
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April 21st, 2006
Techdirt has an interesting article entitled “So, Wait, Do We Blame Or Praise Tech For Stopping Another Columbine?” in regards to the Kansas school shooting plot that was uncovered.
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April 21st, 2006
Mount Olive student suspended for postings on MySpace:
MOUNT OLIVE — A Mount Olive High School freshman has been suspended over the posting, on MySpace.com of a 15-second video recorded in a high school classroom.
The Mount Olive video was posted on the popular social networking Web site on March 6 by a user whose profile describes […]
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April 20th, 2006
Slain 10-year-old Okla. girl laid to rest:
PURCELL, Okla. - About 1,000 people mourned 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin on Thursday, struggling to cope with her loss days after her abused body was found in the closet of a downstairs neighbor.
“Maybe heaven needed another rose to add to its bouquet,” pastor Duane Elmore said at the funeral […]
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April 20th, 2006
Cops: Kansas School Shooting Foiled After MySpace Messages Intercepted:
RIVERTON, Kan. � Five teenage boys accused of plotting a shooting rampage at their high school on the anniversary of the Columbine massacre were arrested Thursday after details of the alleged scheme appeared on the Web site MySpace.com.
Sheriff’s deputies found guns, ammunition, knives and coded […]
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April 20th, 2006
Friends, Family Say Goodbye To Slain Oklahoma Girl:
PURCELL, Okla. — Family and classmates will say goodbye Thursday to a 10-year-old Oklahoma girl who authorities said was killed by a man who planned to eat her corpse.
The service will be held at the Purcell High School gym at 11 a.m. Central time, followed by burial in […]
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April 19th, 2006
Students punished after online photos showed them drinking:
LINCOLN, Maine –Online photos of students drinking beer led to punishments at Mattanawcook Academy, officials said.
Ten students were suspended from extra curricular activities after school officials saw photos of the teens with beer, said Michael F. Marcinkus, superintendent of School Administrative District 67.
The photos, posted on the Web […]
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