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Archive for October 2007

October 31st, 2007

Stalkerbook

Tesco man suspended over web message:
A man who works as a support line technician for an ISP in the UK is in hot water after leaving a comment and risque photo on a female customer’s Facebook.
A Tesco employee has been suspended after using a customer’s personal details to track her down on the Facebook website [...]

By Trench Reynolds -- 1 comment

October 30th, 2007

Shooting at MySpace party

Man shot during MySpace Halloween party:
This is why you should never advertise a party on MySpace or attend one for that matter.
COLLIER COUNTY: A weekend Halloween party that was advertised on MySpace got out of control. So much so in fact, it left one man shot in the neck and three tenants evicted.
Officials say the [...]

By Trench Reynolds -- 2 comments

October 29th, 2007

Craigslist killer?

Steve Huff has confirmed to me and on on his blog that this is the MySpace of one Michael John Anderson. Anderson is the prime suspect in the muirder of Katherine Ann Olson. She was killed after responding to a phony employment ad on craigslist that was allegedly posted by Anderson.
It’s pretty close to a [...]

By Trench Reynolds -- 6 comments

October 27th, 2007

Gang banger caught on MySpace

Murder suspect identified through gang’s MySpace page:
Oakland police used a gang’s MySpace page to catch 19-year-old Dwayne Stancil. Stancil is accused in the shooting death of 17-year-old Greg Ballard Jr., a football player for San Leandro High School.
Investigators developed some information about the assailant but didn’t identify Stancill as the suspect until they found [...]

By Trench Reynolds -- 3 comments

October 25th, 2007

Smokin’ blunts on MySpace

Viewers ID People Seen In MySpace Video:
So some people drive around Seguin, Texas and videotape themselves smoking blunts, while a two-year-old was in the car and not in a safety seat. So what did the geniuses do? Of course they posted it on MySpace. From MySpace the video found its way to being aired on [...]

By Trench Reynolds -- 4 comments

October 25th, 2007

The Bomb Squad

Cops: Greenport ‘bomb squad’ caught on MySpace:
24-year-old Thomas Wood and 26-year old Richard Saetta referred to themselves as “The Bomb Squad”. Did it take you all night to come up with that name? They were arrested for setting off a pipe bomb in a Greenport, New York water fountain. How were police able to capture [...]

By Trench Reynolds -- 1 comment

October 20th, 2007

Blogtoberfest winners

Since I screwed up and forgot to do a 3rd Blogtoberfest post I will be picking two winners from the last one.
Those winners are Wendy and Ice.
Wendy wins a Starbuck’s gift card.

Ice wins a Brown Organizer.
You will both be contacted by a b5 representative shortly.
Congratulations and thanks to everyone for participating.
Tags: b5media, blogtoberfest

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October 18th, 2007

Illinois teen accused of MySpace threat

Huntley High School student arrested for threatening comments on MySpace:
17-year-old William Kuhns of Huntley High in Illinois was arrested for posting a threat against other Huntley students on MySpace. Police also allege that Kuhns was trying to obtain a gun.
Tags: Huntley-High-School, threat, William-Kuhns

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October 18th, 2007

Teen wears flak jacket to school

Over at CrimeNe.ws I posted the rather bizarre story of Shawn Newberry. He’s an 18-year-old who wore a flak jacket to school and has a cache of weapons stockpiled at home. Yet he said there was no intention of wrongdoing. Uh huh.
Anyway here is his MySpace.
Tags: Shawn-Newberry

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October 18th, 2007

Colleen Grear sentenced

Former Scripps lab tech gets year in jail for sex with boy, 14:
Over a year ago I posted the story of Colleen Grear. She was the 22-year-old single mother lab tech who started a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy via MySpace. At first he said he was 18 but when she found out his [...]

By Trench Reynolds -- 6 comments

October 17th, 2007

Belchspeak on John “Jamie” Allen

Pat from BelchSpeak has a post up about John “Jamie” Allen, a pastor and teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with an underage student.
Of course he has MySpace linked goodness for you.
Tags: belchspeak, John-Jamie-Allen

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October 17th, 2007

Facebook caves

Facebook settles New York child safety probe:
Not too long ago I posted about New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo setting his sights on Facebook because of pervs approaching his office’s fake underage Facebook profile.
Well, Facebook has caved in to him…
The settlement involves no financial penalties.
Under the terms of the settlement, Facebook has agreed to begin [...]

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October 17th, 2007

Hatebook

TechCrunch has a great write up on a Facebook clone called Hatebook.
Hatebook looks and functions much like Facebook, except with an evil twist for everything. The color scheme is hellish red, profiles include a section called “Why I’m Better Than You!”, and members can create “Hate Albums” that consist of photos and descriptions of things [...]

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October 17th, 2007

Student fined for threatening teacher on Bebo

Teenager fined for creating website urging pupils to attack his teacher:
Speaking of Bebo and Scotland, because we were you know, 17-year-old Neil Cameron of Aberdeenshire was fined £700 for creating a Bebo site that urged students to kick the hell out of his teacher.
Cameron, from Aberdeenshire, created a website called “We Hate Horberry.com” between January [...]

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October 17th, 2007

UK child groomer sentenced

‘Web predator’ jailed for sex with 14-year-old girls:
Not too long ago I posted about UK sex offender Andrew Beatson from Edinburgh, Scotland. The 26-year-old Beatson had sex with a 14-year-old he met over Bebo.
But while on bail waiting to appear at court, jobless Beatson used the site to initiate a sexual relationship with another [...]

By Trench Reynolds -- 16 comments