Accutane restrictions creating problems:
Dermatologists are complaining because restrictions have been put on the drug Accutane, because of possible birth defects to babies if the drug is taken by pregnant women.
They should be lucky that the drug is on the market at all. I was on this drug for years, and let me tell you I’d rather have the worst acne in recorded history than the side effects of this drug.
And it really didn’t do anything for my acne either.
Michigan Man Busted During MySpace Rondevous:
(CBS4) KEENE, N.H. A Michigan man is under arrest after he traveled to New Hampshire to allegedly meet someone he thought was 14-year-old boy he met online. That 14-year-old boy turned out to be Keene Detective Jim McLaughlin.
Jeremy Dale Stewart, 28, had been talking with the detective for two months. According to McLaughlin, Stewart was using MySpace.com to find teens.
Officials say Stewart traveled about 25 hours on a bus to meet up with the teen in Keene. Prior to the arranged meeting, McLaughlin said Stewart would send photos and love notes.
When Stewart was met by police at the bus station in Keene, officials say he was taken into custody without incident. When police told him he was under arrest, Stewart apparently told them he was there on vacation.
I wasn’t able to find a definitive MySpace for Stewart, but I guess he won’t be needing that round-trip ticket.
Dyleski weeps as jury finds him guilty:
MARTINEZ – Scott Dyleski put a hand over his eyes, leaned over and wept Monday afternoon as he heard a jury’s verdict finding him guilty of first-degree murder and a special circumstance that will send him to prison for the rest of his life.
The jury deliberated about 18 hours before deciding Dyleski, 17, murdered 52-year-old Pamela Vitale on Oct. 15, 2005.
With the conviction on the special-circumstance count of murder in the commission of a burglary, Dyleski will be sentenced to state prison without possibility of parole. He was 16 when he killed Vitale.
The prosecutor said at trial Dyleski killed Vitale in connection with a scheme to purchase marijuana-growing equipment with stolen credit cards.
Prosecutor Harold Jewett argued that Dyleski may have killed Vitale mistakenly believing that she was another neighbor. He was angry at the other neighbor for thwarting his plan to purchase the equipment and for running over his dog a month earlier.
However, jurors did not believe that theory, said 55-year-old Concord resident Peter DeCristofaro, the single juror willing to speak with reporters.
“That didn’t even come up,” he said. “We didn’t buy that.”
He said all but one juror was certain from the first day of deliberations about guilt, but it took three days to decide that it was premeditated murder.
“As far as guilt, we got that nailed down pretty quick,” he said.
Sentencing is set for Sept. 26.
Soldier pleads guilty to arranging tryst with teen using MySpace:
I originally talked about Jason Benge here…
A Fort Drum soldier charged with soliciting teens for sex using the popular website MySpace.com plead guilty to all charges this morning in Jefferson County court.
27-year-old Jason Scott Benge of Flower Avenue East plead guilty to charges of Criminal Solicitation in the 3rd degree and Attempted Rape in the 3rd degree. Benge used the website MySpace.com to arrange a meeting with what he thought was a 15-year-old teen and her 16-year-old friend for purposes of engaging in sexual activity with him and his girlfriend. The teen he believed he was propositioning was actually Detective Steven C. Cote of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department.
Sentencing for Benge is scheduled for October 27th. He was released on his own recognizance.
His MySpace has since been deleted.
Dyleski Jurors Begin New Week Of Deliberations:
The jury in the trial of Scott Dyleski has been deliberating, and on Friday had requested the following items…
E-mail correspondence between Dyleski and his friend who is accused of taking part in a marijuana growing scheme
The emergency contact list of the Hunsaker Canyon Road residents
Aerial photos of the Hunsaker Canyon neighborhood, where Vitale lived
Photo of mansion Daniel Horowitz and Vitale were building at the time of her death
Photos of the content of Dyleski’s red backpack. The items in the backpack were eventually turned over to police by Dyleksi’s mother.
Hernandez said the jury started deliberations ten minutes ahead of schedule on Friday. Hernandez said by midday, jurors requested even more items submitted into evidence. They included a photo of Scott Dyleski after his arrest, as well as photos from his room. They also asked to see the tape lift of shoe print and a photo of shoe print on a plastic lid.
As soon as I hear anything about a verdict, I will let you know.
Accused Internet solicitor waives right:
Recently, I told you about some “gentlemen” that were arrested for trying to solicit underage girls on craigslist. One of them, Nilesh “Nick” Govind, has decided to get things over with…
REDWOOD CITY Opting to go straight to trial, a San Carlos man accused of using the Internet to solicit teen girls for sex waived his right to a preliminary hearing Wednesday.
Nilesh “Nick” Govind, 28, is charged with one count of attempting to commit a lewd act with a minor.A local parent tipped off police to the ad, prompting Belmont police to set up a sting operation on March 10. It was during that sting operation that Govind allegedly offered a Belmont police investigator who he thought was a 15-year-old girl named Amber $200 in exchange for performing specific sex acts.
Govind has no known prior arrests and is not a registered sex offender, police said.
Govind was released from custody on a $75,000 bail bond. He will return to court on Sept. 12 for his superior court arraignment.
If convicted, he faces up to 18 months in prison.
I could almost respect him because it sounds like he’s owning up to his crime if it wasn’t for the fact that he was trying to solicit underage girls.
Man Charged in Rape; Police Fear More Victims:
Recently, I talked about Michael Frese, the guy who raped a woman advertising massage services on craigslist. Police are saying there may be more victims…
After a Dale City man was charged with raping a 19-year-old woman who advertised massage services online, Prince William County police said this week that they fear there might be more victims.
“We need to know how many more are out there,” Detective Quenton Sallows said.
The woman told police that after the man raped her at knifepoint last Thursday, he chastised her for advertising online and told her that “he was just trying to show her how dangerous it can be, that she could lose her life for $200,” Sallows said. The man then warned her not to call police, saying that he and his family were in law enforcement and that his home was used by officers to clean up the neighborhood, Sallows said.
“We’re afraid that there might be other victims out there who were too intimidated by that speech to come forward,” Sallows said.
The woman arrived at the home just before 4 p.m. and was immediately led down to the basement, police said. Feeling uncomfortable with the situation, she tried to leave, saying she forgot something in her car, police said, when Frese allegedly pulled out a serrated knife. The woman was then handcuffed and sexually assaulted, police said.
She was allowed to leave only after receiving the lecture and being made to promise that she would never advertise massage services online again, Sallows said.
The woman drove to a police station, where she reported the sexual assault. Sallows said the woman “did have some physical trauma to help substantiate the claims she was making.”
Here’s the “not surprising” part of the article…
Reached at the home Tuesday, Michael Frese’s father, Larry, said he couldn’t understand the charges against his son, who he said lives with him and had never been in any real trouble before.
Lives in his dad’s basement, huh? Go figure.
Anyway…
Police said they are investigating to see whether there are any additional victims and encourage anyone with information to call Sallows at 703-792-7234.
They are not trying to charge anyone with prostitution, Sallows said. “We just want to know how many victims we have,” he said.
School’s weapons incident reviewed:
Hey kids. Uncle Trench here.
A long, long time ago, even before your Uncle Trench was born, newspapers used to actually report the news instead of trying to manufacture it.
For example, take this quote from the august and esteemed Atlanta Journal-Constitution about Robin Kittrell, the 17-year-old who was arrested for bringing an arsenal to school allegedly to prevent a Columbine-like situation…
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has found some discrepancies in administrators’ accounts of what occurred the day Fayette County sheriff’s deputies carted away Robin Kittrell, who remains in jail on nine weapons violations, including six felonies.
When asked about the tip the day after the arrest, for example, Whitewater principal Greg Stillions said he was notified by a central office administrator that the 17-year-old senior might have “knives and guns.”
Later, that administrator, through a spokeswoman, said the tipster mentioned two students as possibly having knives, but not guns. Both were questioned and searched on the first day of school, she said, and one was cleared.
Also, when asked why Kittrell was allowed to enter the school building when he knew the student might have a weapon, Stillions said Kittrell had no record of disciplinary offenses and noted how difficult it would have been to locate him among 1,700 other teenagers.
Do you see the AJC trying to make a story where one doesn’t exist?
Does any of that really matter? What matters to me is that they caught Robin Kittrell and no one was hurt. Some of the parents agree…
Few parents seem to be concerned about how the incident was handled. County Board of Education chairwoman Terri Smith, whose daughter attends Whitewater, said she hasn’t received a single call.
“I don’t want to armchair quarterback,” she said. “But from what I hear, they handled it correctly.”
So why is the AJC making a mountain out of this molehill?
Prosecutor: Dyleski misidentified Vitale:
Scott Dyleski killed Pamela Vitale mistakenly thinking she was another neighbor who had accidentally killed his dog and foiled his plan to buy marijuana-growing equipment, a prosecutor said Tuesday in closing arguments at Dyleski’s trial.
“It doesn’t make sense any other way,” Harold Jewett said.
In her closing, Dyleski’s defense attorney referred to her client a half dozen times as “a 17-year-old boy” and a kind teenager, and said somebody else killed Pamela Vitale.
Jewett portrayed Dyleski as dismal and depressed, blaming the defendant, but also his parents and teachers for allowing a killer to brew.
“You left me to die in the dark streets with nothing more than broken dreams. … You raised me to hate, and hate I will, because now I live, I live for the kill,” Jewett read from a school poem Dyleski wrote.
The prosecutor added that influential people in Dyleski’s life did not intervene.
“That’s really cool,” Jewett read from comments written by a teacher about the poem.
Deputy public defender Ellen Leonida reminded the jury how her client’s friends testified he was a non-violent vegan who cared about people.
I don’t know if it’s the way the media is reporting it, but this trial sounds like a complete clusterfuck.
I won’t be surprised, no matter what verdict is announced.
Man Sexually Assaults Masseuse, Police Say:
This one is quite disturbing…
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Police in Prince William County said they have arrested a man in a sexual assault and police impersonation investigation.
Police said that on Thursday at 3:55 p.m., a man used Craigslist.com to arrange a one-hour massage at his house in the 13100 block of Kumar Court in Woodbridge. A 19-year-old woman went to the home to perform the massage.
At one point, the man pulled out a knife, handcuffed the woman and sexually assaulted her, police said. The man told the woman he was a police officer before letting her go.
Michael Frese, 24, is charged with rape, forcible sodomy, abduction with intent to defile and impersonating a police officer. He was arrested Friday.
Thanks to tipper Melissa, we have Frese’s MySpace and Frese’s private MySpace
Strange behavior for someone who claims to be married.