Archive for June 2008
June 30th, 2008
Investigation into Brooke Bennett’s disappearance shifts to Randolph:
Police in Vermont have all but named Brooke Bennett’s uncle, Michael Jacques, as a suspect in Brooke’s disappearance. Police have searched his property and have ordered helicopter searches of the area. This was this afternoon and I have not heard any updates as it regards to the search. [...]
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June 29th, 2008
Police Arrest Missing Girl’s Uncle:
The uncle of missing Vermont girl Brooke Bennett has been arrested.
42-year-old Michael Jacques was arrested on sexual assault charges that are not related to Brooke’s disappearance. Police uncovered the assault while investigating Brooke’s disappearance. Jacques is a registered sex offender stemming from a kidnapping and sexual assault from 1993. [...]
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June 29th, 2008
If you enjoy my work here at b5media with MyCrimeSpace and Psycho For Love you may want to check out my new non-b5 blog about failures in parenting called Bad Breeders.
Thanks for all the support that you guys, my readers, have given me over the years.
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June 27th, 2008
MySpace linked to Vermont girl’s disappearance:
An Amber Alert has been issued in the disappearance of 12-year-old Brooke Bennett of Vermont and they believe that MySpace has played a part in it.
Relatives dropped her off at a local mini market thinking she was going to meet a friend however security footage shows she walked off [...]
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June 26th, 2008
Polk Video Beating Case Defendant Has Release Rules Eased:
Brittni Hardcastle, she of the infamous Victoria Lindsay beating, has had her request to ease her house arrest granted.
However she still has to adhere to a curfew and have no contact with the other suspects or the victim.
Tags: beating, Brittni Hardcastle, MySpace, Victoria Lindsay
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June 26th, 2008
Teen’s MySpace page brags about hit-and-run:
17-year-old Jeff Perrette was arrested in the hit and run of Jason “Heath” Wigley. Wigley had to have surgery on his broken leg and claims Perrette said “I will come back for you.” I’m guessing he meant to finish what he started and not offer medical assistance.
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June 26th, 2008
MySpace quarrel sparks an attack:
18-year-old Stephanie Torres of New Jersey was arrested for stabbing the 12-year-old neice of her boyfriend.
Allegedly the 12-year-old erased a comment from a MySpace profile. The article wasn’t clear but I would assume it was Torres’ MySpace. Torres flew into a rage stabbing the 12-year-old three times. Once in the [...]
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June 26th, 2008
‘I Was Mad And I Felt Bad,’ Videotaped Beating Suspect Says:
One of the suspects in the Victoria Lindsay has had her statements to an assistant state attorney released to the press. 15-year-old Kayla Hassel seems to be claiming that she’s a victim.
She talks about how she was mad and felt bad after she saw [...]
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June 26th, 2008
MySpace Train to Juvie:
Back in February I did a post about how 4 teen rapists from Washington State were ID’d through MySpace. Now one of those teens has been sentenced. Although it’s not much of a sentence.
If you’ll recall the then 17-year-old boys got a 16-year-old Bellevue girl drunk then gang raped her. The victim [...]
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June 24th, 2008
Ex-Marine Who Met Local Girl Online Headed To Jail:
I originally posted about Johnathon Plaisance here. Back in December a then 20-year-old Plaisance was a Marine who traveled from Camp Lejeune to Pittsburgh, PA to see a 13-year-old girl he met on MySpace. He proposed to the girl and the two spent a night at a [...]
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June 24th, 2008
MySpace prank or violent holdup?:
20-year-old Paul Michael Hagan of Spotsylvania County in Virginia and an accomplice were arrested in a botched home invasion. The two suspects stormed a man’s home and tried to steal his X-Box. When the victim fought back and wrestled the gun away from the intruder Hagan ssaid that it wasn’t a [...]
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June 23rd, 2008
Good friend of the site and all around local celebrity Crime in Charlotte, NC has another one of her great posts about what Charlotte youth are posting on their MySpaces.
Do their parents not know or do they just not care?
Tags: crime-in-charlotte, MySpace
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June 23rd, 2008
Dozens of police officers who boasted on Facebook about crashing patrol cars keep their jobs:
Dozens of police officers in the UK have been disciplined over a Facebbok group where they bragged about crashing their patrol cars.
Dozens of officers joined a special Facebook group ‘Yes, I’ve had a polcol’ - short for police collision - [...]
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June 23rd, 2008
Oral sex after MySpace chat:
21-year-old Ashley Wood (male) of England was sentenced to 3 years probation and his name placed on the sex offenders registry for messing around with a then 13-year-old girl after meeting her on MySpace.
Prosecutor David Chrimes said Wood, then aged 20, drove to a secluded place where sexual activity took place. [...]
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June 21st, 2008
Man with HIV charged:
23-year-old Shaun Patrick Austin of Bath, Pennsylvania was originally arrested last month when police found child porn on his computer.
Now he’s also accused of using MySpace and VampireFreaks to meet girls ages 12-15 and either having sex with them or raping them. To make matters worse Austin is HIV positive. Some of [...]
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