State upholds Bonelli conviction:
Robert Bonelli Jr. was sentenced to 32 years for shooting up the Hudson Valley Mall in Ulster, New York and wounding two. After his arrest, “Columbine memorabilia” was found in his house, i.e. he’s a mutant.
The Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court upheld Bonelli’s conviction. Bonelli claimed that his public defender provided an inadequate defense.
You know it’s hard to provide a defense when you’re caught shooting up a shopping mall.
MySpace predator sentenced to 10 years:
51-year-old Ronald L. Phillips of Richmond, Virginia was sentenced to 10 years behind bars this past Monday for trying to meet up with a 14-year-old girl for sex over MySpace. Guess what. The 14-year-old girl was actually an agent for the FBI.
Go figure.
Phillips was arrested in a motel parking lot the night before he was supposed to meet “the girl”.
Bothell man stalked teens on goth Web site:
30-year-old Sean E. MacMartin of Bothell, Washington, has been arrested for stalking and grooming teenage girls for sex on the goth social site VampireFreaks.
Scary…
Within the past few months, he’s been charged with five counts of rape of a child in the third degree in cases involving girls between the ages of 13 and 14. He coerced them into coming to his Bothell home.
Detectives fear there could be more victims.
The girls got to know MacMartin online. He used nicknames including Soroth, Darklord, and most frequently – Soth.
Eventually they agreed to meet in person at his home, believing the then 29-year-old was in his late teens or early 20s.
Some of the underage girls had sex willingly,
But for at least one, it was not consensual.
In court papers, one alleged victim says:
“… when “Soth” was cooking he asked (the victim) if she wanted some wine with her dinner. (the victim) told “Soth” that she was fourteen. “Soth” said that there were no cops around.”
After dinner, the victim says she fell asleep, then:
“… (the victim) said that she woke up to “Soth” biting her neck. (the victim) said that “Soth” held her hands above her head and sex with her even after she told him to stop.”
Scarier…
Charges have also been filed against MacMartin’s roommate, Robert Schwarzinger, who is accused of having repeated sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Scariest…
MacMartin was able to post his half million dollar bail and is currently out of jail.
I have a feeling we might be seeing Mr. MacMartin’s name in the future…repeatedly.
MySpace page leads to charges:
Is there something in the water in Naperville, Illinois? This is the third or fourth predator story that I’ve posted about that has happened in Naperville. Is it the creeper holy land of the Midwest?
Anyway, 30-year-old Anthony Kershaw, formerly of Naperville, was arrested Friday on child porn charges. Police were tipped off to “suspicious activity” on a MySpace that he created.
A forensic examination of a computer seized from Kershaw’s former Naperville home revealed 100 images of child pornography, police said.
That’s not a small number. Maybe they should make a law that says for every piece of child porn you get caught with, you get a year in prison. 100 years for this creep sounds about right, doesn’t it?
Gag order denied in police slayings:
Superior Court Judge Robert Johnston has denied the request from the defense to instill a gag order on the trial of Demeatrius Montgomery. Montgomery is accused of the shooting deaths of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers Jeff Shelton and Sean Clark.
However, Judge Montgomery said that the defense could renew their request if they feel the media is hurting Montgomery’s right to a fair trial.
I, for one, hope the media does not step out of line. I don’t want there to be any complications with this trial, whether Montgomery is convicted or not.
Teen convicted of school attack plot faces re-sentencing:
The Michigan mutant, Andrew Osantowski, will have to wait until October to find out how much more will be added to his 4 1/2-year sentence. He was originally supposed to find out tomorrow but has been delayed because Osantowski’s attorney is appealing the conviction to the Michigan Supreme Court. I don’t want to jinx it, but I’m pretty sure that Osantowski’s conviction will be upheld.
Kip Kinkel moved from MacLaren to Salem prison:
Kip Kinkel, the infamous gunman of the Thurston High School shootings in Oregon, has been moved from a juvenile facility to an Oregon State prison. Kinkel had killed his parents in May 1998 before going to school and opening fire in the high school, killing two students. He was sentenced to 111 years behind bars. Kinkel, now 24, will be housed in the general population.
Police: Vampire freaks site leads to sex assault:
You know I’ve been hard on MySpace, craigslist, Xanga, and LiveJournal, but I’ve been neglecting one social networking site that I shouldn’t and that’s VampireFreaks. Now, before the goths start proclaiming that I’m persecuting them, I’m not. It just so happens that VF has had some pretty hardcore criminals in its userbase, most notably Kimveer Gill.
Having said that, enter one 23-year-old Dan Miladinovic. He’s accused of using VF to arrange a meeting with a 16-year-old girl from Sugar Land, TX and sexually assaulting her.
“They got in his car and drove around a little bit. At some point in time, she started feeling uncomfortable about the situation and wanted to go home,” said Sgt. Hines.
But police say Miladinovic pulled in to a doctor’s office parking lot in the 3500 block of Town Center and sexually assaulted the teenage girl in his Mustang.
It’s unknown if the victim was aware of his actual age or not.
I was unable to find Miladinovic’s VF profile.
Accused killer Henderson wants trial moved:
The defense attorneys for Richard Henderson Jr. are trying to get the trial moved. Henderson bludgeoned his family to death on Thanksgiving Day 2005 with a lead pipe.
So defense attorneys Carolyn Schlemmer and Franklin Roberts have requested a change of venue for their client’s murder trial, set for next month.
“I don’t feel it can be held here,” Schlemmer said Wednesday. “There has been too much publicity, too much connecting him to other cases and there is just no way we’d get a fair trial.”
And Henderson himself has this little gem…
“Extensive publicity has caused me hardship at the jail,” states an affidavit signed by Henderson last month. “The pretrial publicity has portrayed me as guilty to four counts of murder in the first degree.”
A lot of the pretrial publicity Henderson brought upon himself. Let’s not forget the letter that he sent to the Bradenton Herald. If you act like a murderous psychopath, people may think you are.
Let’s also not forget that he basically confessed to the crime but, as expected, the defense attorneys are trying to get that thrown out.
In another motion filed Wednesday, Schlemmer said she wants Henderson’s statements to police suppressed and any evidence seized from him on Nov. 27, 2005, to be ruled inadmissible at trial.
She says the evidence was illegally obtained as a result of an unlawful stop by Deputy Rodney Norris, with the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.
Norris, with his gun drawn, stopped Henderson as a possible suspect in the 4900 block of U.S. 301, according to the motion.
Henderson initially told deputies his name was Jason. But he fit the description of the suspect in the slayings, and Norris arrested him.
Norris found a glass pipe with marijuana residue in his left pocket, according to sheriff’s reports.
Norris did not have a “founded suspicion” that Henderson had committed, was committing or was about to commit a violation of the law, according to the motion.
What are the police supposed to do?
Officer: Dispatch, we have a male fitting the description of a fugitive wanted for murder. Moving in to apprehend.
Dispatch: Negative, wait for subject to do something “suspicious”.
“Founded suspicion” my ass. What if police didn’t approach him, and he killed somebody else? How well do you think that would have gone over with the public?
A hearing for these ridiculous requests will be held on June 22nd.
Sex-Assault Suspect Faces More Charges:
David Leonard is one of the few recurring characters here. 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, but don’t quote me on that.
VERNON — A local man in custody the past year on charges that he had sex with several underage girls he met on the social networking website MySpace.com has been charged with having sex with a 15-year-old Plymouth girl.
David F. Leonard, 23, of Vernon, was charged Tuesday by state police with two counts of second-degree sexual assault and two counts of impairing the morals of a minor. During his brief arraignment before Judge Patricia L. Harleston, his bail was set at $75,000 and the case was continued to July 13. Leonard is being held, with bail totaling $715,300.
In the new case,
Well, that clears that up.
the 15-year-old girl told state police that she met Leonard through another website, FaceTheJury.com. Leonard had sex with the girl on several occasions – at her Plymouth home, his dormitory room at Central Connecticut State University and his brother’s dormitory room at the University of Connecticut, police said. The arrest warrant served Tuesday is for the incidents that allegedly occurred in Leonard’s brother’s dorm room at UConn in Storrs.
Police found the Plymouth girl after executing a search warrant on Leonard’s computer and finding images of the girl in various states of undress. The girl had sent the photos to Leonard via America Online’s instant messaging service.
Police also found five photographs of Leonard’s penis that they say he sent to the girl via instant messaging.
I want to say that this is the 11th or 12th charge against him. And as far as I know, all of his acts took place in the state of Connecticut. The same state where Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has pressured MySpace into implementing all sorts of impossible age verification checks. I guess when Leonard gets sentenced, it will be a litmus test to see how Mr. Blumenthal really handles child molesters.
Thanks to Debbie for the tip.