April 6th, 2007
Tacoma woman’s house emptied after craigslist hoax:
A woman in Tacoma, Washington by the name of Laurie Raye recently evicted some tenants from a property she owns. Someone then posted an ad on craigslist that said anybody is welcome to come and take things from the property for free. And they did.
Neighbors said they saw strangers […]
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April 6th, 2007
Calls for crackdown on internet-linked village vandalism:
a councillor from the Scottish village of Buchan is calling for a crackdown on Bebo after it was allegedly used to organize a string of vandalism in their fair village.
Speaking to the Buchan Observer, Councillor Tennant said: “This Bebo site seems to be causing a bit of a […]
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April 4th, 2007
More teens charged with You Tube crimes:
From the same small Kentucky town that criminal genius Charles Jeremy Brown was arrested in comes four new members to a very exclusive club. Kayla Rose, Nick Newsome, Ashley Butcher, and Jessica May were arrested in Belfry Kentucky for breaking into and vadlaizing a mansion of deceased homeowners. And […]
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March 29th, 2007
YouTube video leads to arrest of Pike teen:
Jessica brings us more malcontents from the Bluegrass State. This time it’s 18-year-old Charles Jeremy Brown from Belfry, Kentucky. He was arrested on charges of 27 counts of menacing, eight counts of criminal mischief and one count of criminal littering. Police found the evideence of his crimes posted […]
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February 1st, 2007
MySpace helps crack Cove case:
In Williamsburg, Pennsylvania over a dozen homes that were decorated for Christmas had their decorations stolen or vandalized.
Lights were ripped off porches, blowup snowmen and Santas were cut, lighted reindeer were destroyed and ornaments were smashed, Officer in Charge David Flaig said.
How were the little Grinches caught?
Witnesses reported seeing […]
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January 26th, 2007
Police Catch Taggers Through MySpace:
Two 16-year-olds and a 17-year-old were arrested in Covina, California for tagging. They were busted when police saw pictures of their graffiti on, you guessed it, MySpace.
“Both kids denied it, adamantly, (said) they had nothing to do with it,” Covina police Officer Tim Statler said.
“Then I showed them the pictures that […]
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September 29th, 2006
Police: Taggers Caught Through MySpace Pages:
It only takes one idiot to topple a criminal empire. Not that these dumbasses were close or anything�
(CBS 42) AUSTIN Austin police have arrested four high school students for painting graffiti on more than 200 homes, businesses and public buildings in Austin. Investigators say they found them by looking up […]
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September 21st, 2006
27 arrested for vandalism in MySpace-aided graffiti bust:
BENSALEM, Pa. - Detectives posing as graffiti artists on the MySpace social networking Web site tagged 27 suspects believed to be responsible for more than 1,500 acts of vandalism.
Undercover police posed as taggers on the Web site during the four-month investigation, befriending vandals who bragged about their work, […]
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May 28th, 2006
Church Worker Catches Vandals In Web:
More criminals caught through MySpace…
Brenda Swartz, executive director of the Concordia Avondale Campus, said she used the Web site MySpace.com to find the alleged vandals.
“They had spray-painted their gang names on the walls,” Swartz said. “So we used that as a starting point as far as doing a search with […]
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May 11th, 2006
Postings on Myspace lead to arrest of suspects in Washougal vandalism:
WASHOUGAL — When colorful graffiti started blossoming on walls, fences, a billboard and bridges in Washougal, police used a combination of the old and new to nab two brothers who are the chief suspects.
Lead Officer Tom Davis made up posters that offered a $150 […]
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April 22nd, 2006
MySpace.com leads detectives to two suspects:
Some more criminal masterminds at work…
PATTERSON � It was the next best thing to leaving a calling card.
Investigators said two teens who “completely thrashed” three building contractors’ trailers this week used a computer in one of them to access several pornography sites. One of the boys also logged onto his […]
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March 31st, 2006
Student tip led to graffiti arrests:
More criminal masterminds at work. This time on Xanga…
EAST GRAND RAPIDS — A tip from an East Grand Rapids High School student helped law enforcement track down two people accused of vandalizing parts of Gaslight Village.
The pair — a 21-year-old Grandville man and 20-year-old Walker woman — agreed to […]
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March 29th, 2006
Steele Creek vandals arrested, police say:
A wave of vandalism that’s been going on locally here locally in Charlotte, NC has been brought to a halt. How did police catch the vandals? Take one guess…
Four teens stand accused of vandalizing a neighborhood. Police said the vandals targeted the Steele Creek neighborhood in southwest Charlotte.
They used […]
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March 27th, 2006
Police use ‘MySpace’ to find teen vandals:
Nearly five months ago, three suspects tagged a police vehicle with graffiti. The Crime Tracker 3 Team shows us how Henderson Police used MySpace.com to track down the teens responsible.
In October a patrol car parked at the Galleria Mall was tagged in the middle of the night. Because of […]
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