San Jose State vandals
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As long as criminals keep bragging about their exploits on MySpace I’ll always have a job.
This time we go to San Jose State University in California where statues on campus were defaced. Where did the investigation lead police? Why to MySpace of course.
A MySpace search may have led to the discovery of a person who may be to blame for defacing the Tommie Smith and John Carlos Statue last week.
Sgt. John Laws, a University Police Department public information officer, said Monday that UPD also conducted a search of MySpace, confirming information obtained in a search done by the Spartan Daily.
After publishing an article titled, “Carlos, Smith Statue defaced; no suspect named,” on Oct. 4 and printing a photograph of the graffiti, a Spartan Daily editor entered the word “TRUANS” into the MySpace search engine Thursday afternoon.
“TRUANS” was one of three words tagged on the statue, according to the article.
The MySpace Web page - the first listed in the search results - was found by a Spartan Daily editor.
In the Oct. 4 article, the Daily reported that the letters “ESST” were tagged on the statue when in fact it was “ESSJ” - initials for “East Side San Jose.”
On the Web page, the phrase “eastsidexsanjose” was posted along with 16 photographs of buildings tagged with “TRUANS,” and a tree tagged with “BSP.” Photographs of people with spray-paint cans in a tunnel and people standing next to graffiti on buildings were also found on this site.
The Daily sent a MySpace message to the profile owner on Friday in an effort to obtain his or her side of the story. Within 12 hours of sending the message, all photos on the Web page were no longer posted and the profile was no longer available for public view.
The Daily did not receive a response to the message.
Since no arrest has been made yet I can not bestow the infamous award on the gang slime just yet.
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