February 13th, 2008
Student convicted for MySpace post:
24-year-old Steven Voneida of Harrisburg, PA was convicted of posting threats against Penn State-Harrisburg on his MySpace.
Voneida made posts on his MySpace praising the Virginia Tech gunman and threatening the campus…
A poem entitled “the Ballad of Cho Seung-hui” about Seung-Hui Cho — the shooter who killed 32 people and then […]
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February 7th, 2008
No that’s not some form of sci-fi weapon. It’s this guy from Corvallis, Oregon. This 26-year-old male was arrested for threatening to ‘pull a Columbine’ on his community college. I posted about it at my blog about school violence TheTrenchcoat Chronicles. At that post our good friend Pat from Belchspeak was kind enough to provide […]
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January 16th, 2008
Teen Questioned About Facebook Comments:
A 15-year-old student from Tonganoxie, Kansas was pulled from class and taken into police custody over an alleged threat he posted on MySpace. The threat stated he hated school and planned to kill several people. He used the joke defense and it must have worked because police let him go and […]
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January 9th, 2008
Teen sentenced for threats on another student’s MySpace page:
You may remember a story about an 18-year-old girl from Olivia, MN who hacked into another girl’s MySpace in order to make threats against Atwater-Grove City-Cosmos High School. The article doesn’t name her for some reason but we already know her as Cozy Lynn Schick.
Well she’s been […]
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January 9th, 2008
Police: Boy Made Girlfriend Threats In MySpace Poem, Had Knife At Greensburg School:
A 16-year-old boy from Greensburg Salem High School in Greensburg, PA has been arrested after making threatening remarks towards his girlfriend on MySpace.
The unnamed teen posted a poem on his MySpace entitled “Why Would This Girl I Love Carry Me to Murder.” The […]
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January 3rd, 2008
MySpace Video Leads To Student’s Arrest:
17-year-old Andre Scott of Fayette County High School in Georgia was arrested for gang activity after posting gang related videos on his MySpace.
Fayette County investigators said Scott posted a video of a 14-year-old being
initiated into a gang on his MySpace page.
“There was a 14-year-old that was initiating into the Bloods […]
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December 12th, 2007
4th student in MySpace case re-expelled:
The last if the Belleville High students from Michigan has been re-expelled following another public hearing. To refresh your memories the 4 black students were expelled from Belleville after they were found posing on MySpace with what appeared to be guns, drugs, and money. Why am I bringing up their […]
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December 8th, 2007
Teen hospitalized following fight over blog:
17-year-old Gabriel Cerchiori of Whitehall, Michigan is facing a possible 10 year felony sentence for assaulting a 15-year-old student of Whitehall High School.
The prosecutor says the boy was attacked from behind and slammed into a locker, “In addition, the defendant then picks up the victim and essentially body slams him […]
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December 2nd, 2007
1 Belleville High teen re-expelled:
One of the students that was expelled from Bellville High School in Michigan for posting on MySpace with guns and drugs has been re-expelled. The school was forced to reinstate the students according to a judges order. However after a lengthy public hearing one of the students has been expelled once […]
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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
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 20th, 2007
Hacked MySpace page used to deliver school threat:
17-year-old Cozy Lynn Schick of Olivia, Minnesota was charged with making terroristic threats and facilitating access to a computer security system last week after hacking in to another girl’s MySpace. Then with the hacked MySpace she posted a threat against Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City High School in Grove City, Minnesota […]
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November 19th, 2007
Suspect Detained in YouTube Video Threat:
After the Jokela High School shooting there were other YouTube copycat threats. The first was also from Finland. The next one was from Australia. Now we have one from Norway.
The video posted to YouTube threatened a secondary school in Askoey, near the western coastal city of Bergen, and referred […]
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November 13th, 2007
Man charged over YouTube threat to high school:
And the copycats and mutants continue to crawl out of the woodwork.
A man from Australia is under arrest for posting a threatening video on YouTube against a Sydney high school. But here’s the weird part…
St Marys detectives, with the help of the education department and international agencies, […]
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November 11th, 2007
Students Expelled For MySpace Photos May File Lawsuit:
The other day I posted a story about five students from Belleville High School in Belleville, Michigan that were expelled for posting pictures of them on MySpace posing with guns, drugs and money. Those students are now considering a lawsuit against the school.
The lawyer of four Belleville High […]
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