February 16th, 2008
MySpace pot busts rolling along in Punta Gorda:
MCS’s favorite police department has done it again.
For you newcomers the Punta Gorda, Florida Police Department is famous around these parts for using MySpace to bust drug dealers and users.
This time it’s 24-year-old Joshua Vuolo. The Punta Gorda PD may have been tipped off to […]
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December 7th, 2007
Four arrested in MySpace operation:
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the Punta Gorda, Florida Police Department and their amazing record of MySpace drug busts. Well they’re back and they’re back in style.
Punta Gorda Police Detectives Thomas Lewis, Tray Federici and Harvey Ayers and Officer Katie Mendel arranged a drug buy over the […]
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August 27th, 2007
Where the city meets cyberspace:
I’ve posted about the Punta Gorda, Florida Police Department many times on this site. They’re famous for taking down local drug dealers who approach them on their decoy MySpaces. The article is just a recap of the stories that I’ve already posted here but I did want to mention a quote […]
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July 28th, 2007
Police: Myspace mission leads to sex arrest:
The police department of Punta Gorda, Florida have been featured on this site many times. Usually it’s for the arrest of some drug dealer that blatantly advertises on MySpace. This time they made a completely different kind of arrest.
Punta Gorda PD arrested 19-year-old Tyler Stancker of Pennsylvania. Stancker […]
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April 26th, 2007
Police use MySpace to make pot bust:
The Punta Gorda PD strikes yet again. If this keeps up they’re going to get their own category here at MCS. For those of you new to MCS the Punta Gortda PD is my favorite police department in the U.S. because they keep busting drug dealers and users on […]
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February 25th, 2007
MySpace arrests grab White House’s attention:
MyCrimeSpace’s favorite police department, the Punta Gorda, Florida P.D., has done such a good job using MySpace to catch drug dealers that they’ve caught the attention of the White House.
A report was recently released from the White House on what the Punta Gorda Police Department is doing on MySpace and […]
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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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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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