January 31st, 2008
MySpace Link Yields Arrest:
From the state that brought you such ‘luminaries’ as Scott Shefelbine and David Leonard comes the story of one Christopher Griswold.
He’s a 21-year-old male from the Constitution State who caught by a 12-year-old girl’s mother trying to lure the 12-year-old for sex over MySpace.
Region 10 School Superintendent Alan Beitman had some […]
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September 18th, 2007
MySpace encounter leads to charges:
Seriously Connecticut, is there something in the water that causes your state to produce so many sex offenders?
BANTAM - A Morris man is facing charges for allegedly using his computer to entice a 15-year-old girl who listed her age as 20 years old in her MySpace.com page.
Gabriel Simmons, 31, was served […]
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August 1st, 2007
Popular Web site is target of probe:
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is up to his usual misguided ways. This time he’s focusing his wrath on Facebook.
Connecticut’s attorney general is scrutinizing Facebook, the popular social-networking site, for allowing convicted sex offenders to register, calling into question whether the company is doing enough to protect users.
The inquiry […]
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July 19th, 2007
Shefelbine Cases Moved To Rockville:
Everyone’s favorite reoeat arrestee and all around creepy guy, Scott Shefelbine, is having two of his cases moved from Hartford to Rockville, CT. However it’s not because of any change of venue requests.
Judge Thomas P. Miano said that he was transferring the cases for administrative purposes to Rockville, where seven […]
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July 12th, 2007
That’s the quote from Judge Stanley T. Fuger Jr. when he ordered the bail of Scott Shefelbine revoked.
In his ruling, which came at noon, Fuger said he found the parents’ testimony not believable. The judge said he believed Shefelbine and his parents fabricated evidence and conspired to lie in order to keep him out of […]
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July 12th, 2007
This story gets more bizarre with each passing day.
Yesterday the mother of Scott Shefelbine testified in her son’s bail revocation hearing. Her alibi for her son was that he was at church and not trying to molest a 14-year-old girl. Was church really the best thing she could come up with?
Scott D. Shefelbine was not […]
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July 11th, 2007
Prosecutors Want Shefelbine’s Bond Revoked:
Just a quick update on Scott Shefelbine’s bail revocation hearing. No decision was made yesterday but one is expected today.
But let’s throw some weaselly lawyer in for good measure.
The most recent victim said she met Shefelbine online and they met in West Hartford Center. After that, she said he went to […]
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July 10th, 2007
State Wants Sex Suspect Jailed:
Today a hearing was scheduled to see if the most infamous MySpace predator, at least on this site, Scott Shefelbine would have his bail revoked. You know since he’s been arrested on the same child sex charges multiple times and been bailed out by his parents every time. I haven’t heard […]
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July 3rd, 2007
Man gets 20 years in prison for sexual assaulting MySpace members:
David Leonard, the sex offender from Connecticut with at least a dozen arrests…no, not that one, the other one…has been sentenced to only 20 years behind bars. He pleaded no contest to multiple sexual assault charges.
The article states that he’s expected to enter other […]
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June 23rd, 2007
Second man accused of parole violation by posting MySpace profile:
21-year-old William Santos of Waterbury, CT was arrested for violating his parole by having a MySpace profile. Santos is a convicted sex offender. Of course Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal uses this one arrest to pat himself on the back.
“This arrest demonstrates that many of these […]
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June 20th, 2007
Suspect Faces New Charges:
This is just un-frekain’-believable. 32-year-old Scott C. Shefelbine of Connecticut, and multiple arrestee on pedophile charges, has been arrested yet again. This idiot just can’t stay out of trouble. He was already out on bail for his previous charges and I believe he’s already paid over $1M in bail.
Shefelbine told the […]
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June 7th, 2007
Sex-Assault Suspect Faces More Charges:
David Leonard is one of the few recurring characters here at MyCrimeSpace. You can check out his previous transgressions here, here, and here. This scumbag has had so many charges of child molestation leveled against him I’ve lost track if this is a new charge or not. I believe it is […]
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June 1st, 2007
Sex Offender Accused Of Using MySpace:
Now that the AG’s have the names of the sex offenders on MySpace it’s time to round them up.
Our first contestant is 30-year-old Christopher Montefusco (MySpace deleted). Of course it happens in the MySpace predator capitol of the U.S., Connecticut.
Montefusco, 30, of West Haven, was convicted of first-degree sexual […]
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January 30th, 2007
Attorney General Calls MySpace Sex Offender Registry “False Security Blanket,” Renews Call For Age Verification:
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has issued the following press release in regards to MySpace donating a sex offender database to the NCMEC.
“MySpace’s sex offender data base is a false security blanket that ignores and distracts from the real problem […]
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January 12th, 2007
Man pleads guilty to assaulting girl he met on MySpace.com:
One of the first sexual predators ever mentioned on this site, Stephen M. Letavec, has pleaded guilty in Connecticut to one count of using the Internet to persuade a minor to engage in sexual activity and one count of traveling in interstate commerce for the purpose […]
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