October 31st, 2008
Skeleton lands man in jail for hate crime:
Back in May I posted about the Granados Brothers or as I called them the Canadian Confederates.
They got in trouble for hanging a black skeleton in front of a confederate flag in their little town of Keswick, Ontario.
Luke Granados was sentenced to 45 days in jail. He [...]
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October 29th, 2008
4 charged in Ark. college shooting that killed 2:
Another story I’m sure you’ve heard about was the shooting on the campus of University of Central Arkansas where two students were shot to death and one was wounded.
Those arrested in the murders were Kawin Brockman, Kelcey Perry, Mario Toney, and Brandon Wade.
Once again thanks [...]
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October 29th, 2008
“Skinheads” Reveal All On Web:
I’m sure by now everyone has head about the two neo-nazi skinheads who planned to assassinate Barack Obama.
Not surprisingly the pair of racist idiots Daniel Cowart and Paul Schlesselman had MySpaces.
The article from CBS news talks about one of Schlesselman’s MySpace profiles and his racist rantings about ‘wiggers’. However [...]
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October 27th, 2008
Police offer to shepherd youth on MySpace:
An Oregon-based law-enforcement group called the Intercept Task Force is asking parents to have their kids friend the ITF on MySpace to discourage sexual predators. This would also give the kids to IM the Task Force if a predator does approach them.
This is a great idea and I [...]
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October 27th, 2008
Terrorist ‘tweets’? US Army warns of Twitter dangers:
Army Intelligence really does live up to its oxymoronic name sometimes. This is one of those times.
They released a report publicly that states Twitter could be used as a possible communication and propaganda tool by terrorists.
Now I’m not saying there’s no such thing as terrorists or [...]
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October 27th, 2008
I’m sure by now you’ve all heard of Ashley Todd. She’s the woman who was a campaign employee for the McCain campaign who claimed an Obama supporter carved a backwards B onto her face. Then it turns out she did it to herself.
Anyway thanks to reader Jewel we have Ashley Todd’s MySpace. It’s private of [...]
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October 23rd, 2008
Teen accused of making death threats on MySpace:
A 17-year-old student from Kellam High School in Virginia was arrested for making death threats on his MySpace. Allegedly he sent death threats to two female students on MySpace and threatened a third to her face. He’s been charged with two felony counts of written threats which could [...]
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October 22nd, 2008
Fox Lake man gets 35 years for Facebook sex scheme:
We have another repeat guest today at the MyCrimeSpace Motel. This time it’s Michael Macalindong. He’s the 25-year-old from outside of Chicago who I dubbed Facebook’s first pedophile.
Maclindong (ting-tang-walla-walla-bing-bang) lured teen boys over Facebook into having sex with him. When they refused he threatened to post [...]
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October 22nd, 2008
Teens Use Family’s Home As Hangout After Reading MySpace Post:
Here’s yet another reason why you shouldn’t post your personal information on MySpace. I think this is like reason #853.
A boy from North Canton, Ohio posted on his MySpace that his family was going on vacation. The local teen hoodlums took this as an invitation to [...]
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October 22nd, 2008
Former Justice Dept. Prosecutor Joins Defense in MySpace Suicide Case:
Former federal prosecutor Orin Kerr has joined the defense team for Lori Drew.
Like the other tech geeks he’s afraid that if Drew’s fraud charges aren’t thrown out that it will open up the floodgates for the government to prosecute every little TOS violation.
For example [...]
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October 21st, 2008
MySpace Helps Police Solve Crime:
Vandals continue to show their stupidity and that they’re of no use to society.
Police in Van Buren, Arkansas were able to bust a quartet of vandals who referred to themselves as ‘Goonsquad’. The aptly named Goonsquad spray painted street signs and sidewalks with their Goonsquad name.
All police needed to do was [...]
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October 21st, 2008
Police: Uncle drove niece to Myspace fight:
Further proving my assertion that MySpace is the trailer park of the internet comes this story from Sioux City, Iowa.
27-year-old Garrett Lee Warner drove his teenage niece to a skate park so she could fight another girl after one made derogatory comments about the other on MySpace.
Warner was [...]
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October 20th, 2008
Tolland Man Sentenced 20 Years For Sexual Assault:
One of the earliest MySpace predators that I posted about at this site was one Scott Shefelbine. He’s the balding man in his 30’s who would convince teenage girls that he was 19 and would have sex with them. And if they didn’t comply Shefelbine would turn violent. [...]
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October 20th, 2008
Ex-teacher lured girls to pose nude:
28-year-old Andrew Delafield of England was a teacher at a gym club. He was convicted of trying to get two of his female students from the gym club to send him nude pictures through the social site Bebo.
In one instance he tried to get a 16-year-old lesbian to send him [...]
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October 19th, 2008
S.A. man tied to Vermont sex assault case:
A 3rd man has been arrested in connection with the disappearance and death of 12-year-old Brooke Bennett of Vermont.
58-year-old Kevin D. Grosenheider of San Antonio, Texas was arrested for helping Brooke’s former stepfather, Ray Gagnon, dispose of evidence. Gagnon rented a room from Grosenheider and had [...]
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