CHS teens charged with beating found on Myspace.com:
BAKERSFIELD - A judge has ordered five teens to stay in Juvenile Hall on charges that they beat a Centennial High School student, videotaped the attack, and then published it on the Internet site Myspace.com.
The five teens were arrested once detectives obtained the videotape of them beating another […]
Steve Huff of CrimeBlog.US has an exclusive look into the MySpace of Melinda Duckett. In Steve’s own words…
Trenton Duckett disappeared on or about August 27, 2006. At first it looked like the boy had been abducted by a stranger. But by the time Melinda Duckett killed herself with a firearm last Friday, it was becoming […]
Labels Sued Over Sexy Video of Minor:
A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court alleges that Warner Music Group, Atlantic Records and other music industry organizations helped coerce a 16-year-old girl into making pornographic rock videos when a band advertised for extras on MySpace, News Corp.’s teen-oriented social networking site.
The suit, filed Thursday, […]
K brings us some more criminals with MySpace connections.
First up we have Joshua Bertoncello. A 21-year-old grocery clerk from Slippery Rock, PA who basically embezzled $40,000 from the grocery chain he worked for. The money was for charges he ran up on his mother’s credit card.
Then we have the Michael Tobias and Christopher Portka. A […]
Facebook Yields to Angry Users:
Facebook is in the middle of damage controlling their new stalker options…
The mob has spoken and the leaders have responded. Facebookers can now opt out of sharing their information over News Feeds and Mini-feeds.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg writes on the Facebook Blog:
…We have been coding nonstop for two days to get […]
Xanga fined $1 million under child-privacy act:
Xanga has been hit pretty hard in the wallet by the FTC over child privacy concerns…
Xanga.com, a social-networking and blog site, has been ordered to pay $1 million in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
The FTC said in a […]
Craigslist sex prankster outs men:
This is way too funny and it makes me wonder why I didn’t think of something like this…
Craigslist, the hugely successful internet classified ad site, has long been known for the rather, um, honest nature of its personal ads. From fetishists seeking out others with the same kink, to office workers […]
Mich. teen recounts MySpace romance to magazine:
Our favorite runaway to the Middle East, Katherine Lester, is back in the headlines again for telling her story to Seventeen Magazine…
GILFORD � A Michigan teenager who flew to the Middle East to be with a man she met on MySpace.com has detailed her online romance and the fallout […]
Online Child Prostitution, An Alarming Trend:
This is an article from a Scramento, CA news station about how child prostitution is proliferating due to the internet…
(CBS 13) SACRAMENTO FBI agents say child prostitution is moving off the streets and onto the information superhighway. Sacramento Special Agent James Harris said sex peddlers have gotten tech savvy.
“They figure […]
MySpace user gets arrested locally:
I’m going to spare you from copying and pasting this article because it is so poorly written it’s making my left eye bleed. So here it is in a nutshell…
One 20-year-old Eric Roscoe from Lake Charles, La. was arrested in DeRidder, La. for carnal knowledge of a juvenile and computer aided […]
Police: MySpace Fight Involved 150 People:
This is one of the more unusual stories that I’ve posted…
VIRGIL TOWNSHIP, Ill. — They logged on looking for a party, but they got a fight.
Police are investigating Wednesday a weekend brawl in Virgil Township some say was set up through MySpace.com. It involved as many as 150 people.
Police have […]
Cops Use Craigslist For Prostitution Sting:
Police in Bucks County have arrested 16 people on prostitution and drug charges after finding the suspects using the popular craigslist Web site in a sting operation.
Bensalem Township (Pa.) police said a special unit used www.craigslist.com as an “investigative tool” to identify, contact and arrest prostitutes.
Bensalem police say 52-year-old Amber […]
Teens bragged of bombs on Myspace:
This is actually a story I’ve posted about before but now we have names…
Brady Jennings, 16, of Enfield, N.H., mentioned the bombings in a message he posted on his friend Joshua Martin’s MySpace.com Web site on Aug. 17, the affidavit says. Martin also is 16 and from Enfield.
“Poor lil potty/payphone/mailbox,” […]
Attorney for “My-Space” Attacker Claims Constitutional Protection:
For those of you who may have forgotten Pete Solis is the 19-year-old at the crux of the MySpace lawsuit. The victim’s mother is suing MySpace because Solis sexually assaulted her 14-year-old daughter. Solis’ attorney in the criminal proceedings has made possibly the most outrageous legal claim ever this […]
MySpace query leads to family reunion:
Not only do we have a story where MySpace does some real good but it’s also out of Florida. Someone check the temperature of hell please. Or maybe it’s Opposite Day…
When St. Petersburg teen Christina Lynch, 16, accessed her MySpace account in August, an e-mail from “Jake” awaited her, the […]
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