November 30th, 2007
Police Blotter: MySpace profile sets convicted felon free:
40-year-old Danny Cecil of West Virginia was convicted for molesting two underage girls. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison. That was until November 21st when his conviction was overturned because two of the jurors had found one of the victim’s MySpace.
Here’s what the court […]
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November 30th, 2007
Thanks to Crime, Interrupted, which is a blog about crime in the Four Corners areas of the country, we have the Google cache of Tiffany Hecker’s most recent MySpace before she deleted it.
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November 29th, 2007
Students arrested, charged with plotting school attack:
Three teens were arrested for plotting an attack against Arlington High School in LaGrangeville, New York. The three arrested were 16-year-olds Patrick Quigley and Joseph Saia from Poughquag and an unidentified 15-year-old from Hopewell Junction. They’ve all been charged with felony fourth-degree conspiracy.
How were the geniuses caught? The usual. […]
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November 28th, 2007
Police seek man charged in ‘MySpace’ page assault:
Police in Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania are on the lookout for one 25-year-old Pedro Angel Luna-Cruz Jr. Luna-Cruz is accused of severely battering his girlfriend over her MySpace page. He is accused of flying into a jealous rage over the male friends on his girlfriend’s MySpace.
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November 28th, 2007
Fugitive’s MySpace page outrages dead teen’s mom:
Evelyn Mezzich was charged in the drunk driving death of then 18-year-old Lindsay Ann Brashier.
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November 28th, 2007
Judge reverses expulsion of students over MySpace gun photo:
The students from Belleville High School that were expelled for posting pics on their MySpaces of them posing with guns drugs and money, not so much.
A judge has ordered that the school reinstate the criminals…I mean students.
Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Stephens criticized the district for failing […]
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November 28th, 2007
NYPD: Man Shoots Mom and Brother, Chops Up, Dumps Bodies:
24-year-old Lamar Platt of the Bronx is under arrest in the murders of his mother and brother.
It’s alleged that he fatally shot his mother and brother then dismembered their bodies before dumping them in the Harlem River.
Thanks to Angie for the links.
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November 28th, 2007
Over at TheTrenchcoat Chronicles and CrimeNe.ws we’ve been discussing the case of Tiffany Hecker. She is accused of killing her newborn baby back in January.
Thanks to Angie we have Hecker’s MySpace.
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November 27th, 2007
MySpace romance ends on Dr. Phil:
Everyone’s favorite globetrotting Myspace runaway teen Katherine Lester was on the Dr. Phill show once again. This time it was to break off the relationship she had with the Arab man known as Abdullah Psycho. To make matters more humiliating for Abdullah is that the break up was done via […]
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November 27th, 2007
In court, San Jose girl tells of sex with adult she met online:
Right now 24-year-old Anthony Uckele of Saratoga, California is facing 36 counts of lewd conduct that could put him behind bars for 78 years.
He was arrested back in October 2005 for having sex with a 12-year-old girl that he met on MySpace. […]
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November 27th, 2007
Man pleads guilty to YouTube school threat:,
Not so long ago I posted about a man who posted a threat on YouTube against a school in Sydney, Australia. He has pleaded guilty to the charges against him.
Jason Cousins linked the threat to a massacre at a high school in Finland earlier this month, in which a […]
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November 27th, 2007
Police: 2 Teens Sexually Assaulted After Meeting Men On MySpace:
19-year-old Juan Carlos Coello and 18-year-old Julio Guambana were arrested in New Haven, Conn. on various charges of sexual assault among others. Police are saying that they assaulted two girls ages 16 and 17, that they met on MySpace.
Police said the 16- and 17-year-old girls […]
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November 27th, 2007
This really doesn’t have to do with crime but one of my biggest pet peeves is the forwarded e-mails and MySpace messages and bulletins that perpetuate urban legends. I haven’t actually received anything about this one yet but I thought I would help put it to bed before it got out of hand.
According to […]
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November 25th, 2007
Facebook helps Revenue catch villains:
This is a quick article about how the UK’s Customs & Revenue Department, which is the British version of the IRS, has been using Facebook to track down their most wanted.
“Basically some people are very stupid,” he said. Although the criminals themselves didn’t create their own Facebook pages, their friends and […]
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November 24th, 2007
Thanks to regular tipster Angie again we have the MySpaces of the other two suspects in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe.
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