January 12th, 2008
MySpace Leads Police to Suspect:
That’s 20-year-old Stephen Gardner Jr. of Winter Haven, Florida. He was nabbed by police when one of his victims recognized him from MySpace. The article has one of the better lines I’ve read…
Winter Haven police say that without a photo of Gardner downloaded from MySpace, he would still be in free […]
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January 12th, 2008
Hillsborough County man met girls on MySpace in order to have sex:
Mr. Clean over there is 37-year-old Edward Oberwise of Hillsborough County, Florida. He’s been arrested for having sex with a 12-year-old girl he met over MySpace.
Police were tipped off by the girl’s 14-year-old friend who told her parents.
So let’s hear it sex offender defenders. […]
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January 10th, 2008
Okaloosa County boy arrested for MySpace threat:
This article is the definition of short on details.
Some kid from Okaloosa County in Florida threatened some other kid on MySpace back in October.
He was arrested.
The end.
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December 2nd, 2007
Detectives:Man met Lakeland teen through MySpace and Sexually Battered Her:
That distinguished looking gentleman at right is one 39-year-old Richard Gagnon Jr. He’s been arrested for performing sexual acts on a 14-year-old girl that he met over MySpace. Gagnon is accused of making several trips from Fort Lauderdale to Lakeland, Florida to have sex with the […]
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November 1st, 2007
YouTube Viewer In New York Leads Central Florida Police To Victim:
Has it really come to this?
A man in Melbourne Florida posted his last will and testament and suicide attempt on YouTube. I say attempt because luckily a viewer from New York saw the video and contacted authorities.
The video, in which the man said that he […]
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September 5th, 2007
Fla. Baby Sitter Accused Of Smoking Pot With Child:
A 15-year-old girl from Nassau County, Florida is under arrest on felony child abuse charges. Police discovered that she was smoking pot with the child she was baby sitting. The article doesn’t say how old the child was. How did the police discover this illegal activity? Because […]
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July 28th, 2007
Fight over MySpace comments turns violent:
A 17-year-old Florida girl is under arrest for attacking two other girls with a boxcutter after the three got into a fight over MySpace comments.
The 17-year-old and two other girls got into a fight Tuesday night on Parker Street in Zephyrhills. They “had issues with one another over comments made […]
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July 19th, 2007
MySpace profile that mentions drugs, alcohol could cost Broward teacher his job:
This is a rather bizarre article about Broward County, Florida teacher Scott Davis who may lose his job because of his MySpace. I’ll highlight the weird parts for you.
Broward schools investigators allege Scott Davis, 31, had a personal Web page on the social networking […]
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April 1st, 2007
Inmate’s Myspace Page Sparks Police Investigation:
Justin Sampson is accused of beating his girlfriend’s 3-year-old, TJ Ballard, to death. TJ’s father, Edward Ballrd Sr., received a MySpace friend request from someone calling themself “Innocent”. When Mr. Ballard clicked on the link he was horrified to see pictures of his son.
“My son ain’t been dead six […]
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March 25th, 2007
Police: Child Porn Raid Uncovers Children Living In House Of Filth:For full impact I’m going to let the article do most of the talking…
WEBSTER, Fla. — Authorities in Central Florida serving a federal search warrant in a child pornography investigation Friday morning discovered a house of filth in which a toddler and infant were living, […]
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February 22nd, 2007
Punta Gorda police use MySpace for drug bust:
Our favorite Florida police department has struck again. This time the Punta Gorda P.D. picked up five suspects on a MySpace drug bust sting.
The initial suspect, Robert James Alden, 21, was arrested in the sting. In turn he rolled over on four more additional suspects, Thomas Fiorelli, […]
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February 7th, 2007
Fla. Links With MySpace To Fight Predators:
Florida, of all states, is actually doing something reasonable about online sexual predators. Lawmakers are counting on MySpace to help them catch predators. What a novel concept.
TALLAHASSEE — Attorney General Bill McCollum and legislative sponsors of a bill combatting sexual predators who use the Internet to lure children will […]
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January 29th, 2007
Taped beatings a ‘new trend’:
This is an article about how videotaped assaults are becoming the new trend on the internet. Specifically a beating of 12-year-old Florida girl.
The girl was assaulted last December when she went to talk to another girl about a disagreement they were having over a boy. When the girl got to the […]
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January 18th, 2007
Suspect posts details of shooting on MySpace:
Robert Powell, 22, of the Orlando area in Florida was arrested in the shooting death of Joseph Duprey, 22. The two were arguing over a gun that Powell borrowed from Duprey.
Powell refused to give back the gun, homicide Sgt. Allen Lee said, and used it to shoot Duprey […]
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January 14th, 2007
Fla. police make arrest through MySpace:
The Punta Gorda Police have arrested yet another person in their obviously successful MySpace stings. If you remember the first two arrested that I’ve posted about here were David Carroll and Shawn Stevens. This time the suspect is 34-year-old James Brian Johnson. As usual the suspect thought he was arranging […]
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