January 31st, 2007
Newborn In Murder Investigation Was Born In Car:
Addie Kubisiak, 18, of Parker, Colorado has been arrested in the death of a newborn. Police are saying that the baby was born in a car traveling through Douglas County. The remains of the newborn were found at Kubisiak’s dorm room at Western State College. It’s unclear from […]
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January 31st, 2007
Woman captured after citizen recognized her on MySpace:
Dawn Marie Cruse was wanted by Richmond, Kentucky for over year on charges that she stole money from her employer. And she would have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for some meddling MySpacer. An anonymous tipster recognized Cruse’s picture from the Richmond PD website as […]
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January 31st, 2007
MySpace Reveals Information About Teen:
Josh Gilchrist was a 16-year-old kid who killed his mother, 49-year-old Betty Jo Gilchrist, with a sword. He swung the sword at police hitting an officer who in turn shot and killed Gilchrist. So far no motive was given for the murder but the article states that friends leaving messages on […]
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January 31st, 2007
Lawsuit Involving Fake MySpace Page In Tipton County:
Chris Barnett of Brighton High School in Brighton Tenn. made a fake MySpace of his assistant principal. He posted about the assistant principal acting inapropriately around female students. Barnett was then thrown out of school. Did his parents admonish him for not finding a more reasonable way to […]
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January 31st, 2007
Aventura PD Turns To Viral Video For Help Solving Crime:
Aventura, Florida police are using MySpace and YouTube to help solve a 6-year-old crime. They’re hoping that someone will come forward with information in regards to the murder of 76-year-old Irving Sicherer. Sicherer was bludgeoned to death in 2001. Here is the Aventura PD MySpace and […]
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January 31st, 2007
Internet predator gets eight months:
Nick Govind, the California man who tried to solicit sex from underage girls on craigslist, has been sentenced to 8 months in prison. He will also have to register as a sex offender.
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January 31st, 2007
Craigslist trysts proving dangerous in Richmond:
This is a story from Richmond, California about a recent slew of crimes they’ve had related to craigslist. One man was robbed and carjacked after meeting a woman he thought he was going to pay for sex. Someone who thought they were selling shoes to someone off of craigslist was […]
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January 31st, 2007
Neighbors say pricey Beach house site of much criminal activity:
This is a tale of what happens when a craigslist advertised house of prostitution moves into the suburbs…
VIRGINIA BEACH - The neighborhood near Hilltop was quiet until “that lady and her problems” moved in - a $500,000 brick ranch-style house with a pool - more […]
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January 31st, 2007
Proposal requires sex offenders to list e-mail, IM:
First there was DOPA, then Ted “Tubes” Stevens introduced the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act. Now we have yet another legislative proposal designed in the name of “keeping children safe” but really doesn’t do anything of the sort. Rep. Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota has proposed […]
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January 31st, 2007
Bookkeeper Hired From Craigslist Accused Of Stealing:
Why anybody would hire someone off of craigslist, unless your’re recruiting hookers or dealers, is beyond me. A Seattle businesswoman learned that hard lesson when she hired one 28-year-old Vanessa Lemley off of craigslist only to have Lemley steal 9 large from her. And the business woman wasn’t Lemley’s […]
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January 30th, 2007
Teen finds topless photos of herself on MySpace:
This story is a little more than creepy. It’s a short article so please forgive my C&P…
Authorities are investigating how a photograph of a partially nude juvenile made it onto MySpace, according to a Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office report.
The Port Charlotte teenager told deputies that at about 9 […]
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January 30th, 2007
4th Teen Arrested In Videotaped Beating:
The cameraman who taped the beating of a 12-year-old Long Island girl surrendered to police yesterday. The 16-year-old male was charged with the laughable charge of unlawful assembly and was released after posting $100 bond.
On Monday, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy said he hoped the boy’s arrest would send […]
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January 30th, 2007
Attorney General Calls MySpace Sex Offender Registry “False Security Blanket,” Renews Call For Age Verification:
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has issued the following press release in regards to MySpace donating a sex offender database to the NCMEC.
“MySpace’s sex offender data base is a false security blanket that ignores and distracts from the real problem […]
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January 30th, 2007
Man Accused Of Trying To Lure Teen For Sex:
Another guy from Massachusetts soliciting underage sex on craigslist. This time it’s married father of two Fred Newhall III of Uxbridge. He posted an ad looking for a teenage “house cleaner”. What he ended up getting was Auburn Police Detective James Lyman posing as a 15-year-old girl. […]
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January 30th, 2007
His space: Blog details suspect’s life:
This is an article about the MySpace blog of Mass. school stabbing suspect John Odgren. I wish I had brought that to you a week ago. Oh wait. I did.
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