TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Category: Social Media Crime

  • Conn. child rapist used MySpace

    Man arrested for preying on teens on myspace.com:

    Seriously, what is up with Connecticut? They seem to be breeding more and more child molesters every day…

    (Vernon-WTNH, Oct. 10, 2006 10:30 PM) _ Police have arrested a Connecticut man they say preyed on teens on myspace.com.

    Police say the suspect may have sexually assaulted five teens he met online and there may be more.

    Scott Shefelbine does not have a police record but police say he has been going online and lying to teenage girls that he is also a teen in order to gain their trust and meet them.

    It was 12:30 a.m. at a tower in Henry Park in Vernon when a police officer patrolling the grounds noticed a teenaged girl with an older man and began asking questions.

    31-year-old Scott Shefelbine does not particularly look 19 or 17, but that is what he told at least 5 different victims that he allegedly met on myspace.com.

    The Vernon police, State Police and the FBI have now seized 5 computers from Shefelbine’s home.

    “We don’t know how many victims are out there. The internet is so pervasive and these predators are using it to contact so many different victims it is entirely possible that there are some out of state,” says Collins.

    The five victims that police know of are all in Connecticut and between the ages of 14 and 17.

    The age of consent is 16, but police say that Shefelbine has had sex with a 16-year-old he met in Henry Park when she was just 15. Shefelbine is also accused of raping the 17-year-old. He is also suspected of plying his victims with alcohol before sexually assaulting them.

    I wasn’t able to find a MySpace attributed to Shefelbine but his actions are disgusting and reprehensible. I hope he goes away for a long time.

  • Colleen Grear

    Colleen Grear

    Scripps worker charged with seducing 14-year-old via the Internet:

    JUPITER A 22-year-old woman was arrested at her Scripps job on Tuesday and charged with sexual assault of a 14-year-old boy she’d met on the Internet at MySpace.com, deputies said.

    Colleen N. Grear, of Singer Island, was charged with one count of using a computer to seduce or solicit a child and three counts of sexual assault of a child under age 18, the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office said.

    Detectives said Grear contacted the 14-year-old through MySpace.com early in the summer. She met with the child three times, PBSO said.

    PBSO also said Grear confessed to having oral sex and intercourse with the boy, who is from northern Palm Beach County.

    Recently, the boy’s mother discovered what was going on and contacted PBSO.

    Grear is a divorced mother of a 2-year-old child. In addition to working at the Scripps lab, she is a student at Florida Atlantic University and is a cheerleading coach at a local high school, PBSO said.

    It was not immediately known what Grear does at Scripps at its Jupiter operation.

    But since she’s a woman, she’ll probably get no time.

    I have no access to MySpace right now, so if anyone wants to post the link to hers in the comment section they may.

  • Joseph Colasacco given 10 years

    Joseph Colasacco given 10 years

    MySpace predator sentenced to 10 years:

    Joseph Colasacco, who I originally posted about here, has been sentenced to 10 years for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy he met through MySpace.

    He was arrested in February after the 14-year-old’s step-father found him in bed with the boy with a pornographic DVD playing on a television and pornographic magazines scattered about the boy’s room.

    Have fun in prison, scumbag.

  • Vampirefreaks community reacts

    Vampirefreaks community reacts

    Vampirefreaks.com pulls gunman’s profile:

    The Vampirefreaks community has reacted to the fact that Kimveer Gill was among their membership…

    Kimveer Gill, also known as Trench, pictured on the vampirefreaks.com website. Administrators pulled his profile from the site this afternoon.

    Users of the website Vamperfreaks.com are defending the site following the shooting rampage at a Montreal college by a frequent visitor to the site.

    “Yeah, there’s been a couple incidents before with people on the site but the site itself did not make those people do the things they have done,” says a message board contributor identified as Michelley. “ This site does not condone murder or suicide. Blame the man at fault here. The shooter. Not the site. The site did not put the gun in his hand and say ‘go kill people at school.’”

    “I offer my condolences to the victims and their families, it really is a tragic event,” writes Jet. “However, we do not condone or influence this type of behavior in any way. Just because someone goes around shooting people and happens to be a member of vampirefreaks, doesn’t mean that this website has influenced him to do such a horrible thing. The goth scene is a very friendly, nurturing, non-violent community and we are very supportive of our users and do not condone any illegal activities.”

    An adherent of Goth culture, he had a profile on Vampirefreaks.com under the name Trench.

    After his identity became known, his website was inundated with angry comments from other Goth followers, such as: “I hope you’re burning in hell, you sick f—.” Website administrators deleted his profile early this afternoon.

  • Another Conn. MySpace assault arrest

    Another Conn. MySpace assault arrest

    Man Charged With Raping Girl He Met Through Internet:

    Another sexual predator arrest in Connecticut. It’s officially the MySpace predator capital of the world…

    BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A city man has been arrested on a sexual assault charge, accused of raping a 12-year-old girl he met on the Internet site, Myspace.com.

    Bienvenido Garcia, 19, was arrested Wednesday by members of the U.S. Marshals Violent Crime Fugitive Task Force.

    A task force member said that while police knocked on his door, task force members caught Garcia climbing out his back window in his underwear.

    Police said the alleged victim’s mother had turned over to police 16 pages of computer correspondence between her daughter and Garcia from the Web site.

    The girl said on a number of occasions Garcia had come into her room, pinned her on her bed and raped her, police said.

    I was unable to find a MySpace for Garcia.

  • Matthew Cogburn

    Matthew Cogburn

    They’re still showing up:

    It seems that Dateline NBC had another one of their “To Catch A Predator” episodes tonight. I missed it because I wasn’t home. However, a reader by the name of Big Boss tipped me off to one of the guys they exposed…

    Another man who despite seeing our previous broadcasts is willing to take the risk of showing up at a stranger’s house to possibly have sex with a minor.

    He’s 22-year-old Matthew Cogburn- yesterday was his birthday. He’s here to meet a decoy pretending to be a 14-year-old.

    This clean cut all-American looking man has a MySpace page where he says “Jesus rocks” and lists god as his number one hero. But when he goes into a Yahoo chat room, he seems like another person. His chat with a girl he thinks is 14 is so graphic, much of it can’t be shown. He does ask the decoy if her house is secluded so if they use the jacuzzi, “you can moan and squeal all you want.”

     

    Matthew Cogburn (hidden camera footage): Nice house.

    Decoy: Thank you. Did you have a hard time getting here?

    Cogburn: Well the road that I was looking for didn’t show up.

    Hansen: Why don’t you have a seat there, and get comfortable for a minute

    Cogburn: I had a feeling this was going to happenHansen: You had a feeling what was going to happen?

    Cogburn: Is this the national news thing. The national news all that stuff?

    Hansen: NBC? You mean like Dateline NBC?

    Cogburn: Yeah.

    Hansen: What was your plan here today?

    Cogburn: I don’t. I can’t answer that as I want to because I’ve been in a struggle with myself on what I want, ’cause I’m still a virgin and a just, and it’s stupid that I did this.

    Hansen: How old are you?

    Cogburn: 22

    Hansen: And how old was the girl you were chatting with on line?

    Cogburn: The girl said she was 13 or 14.

    Hansen: 13 or 14? And you thought that it would be okay to come over here and visit a young girl home alone?

    Cogburn: I wanted it, I wanted to think it was okay, but I guess (he shrugs his shoulders)

    Hansen: Now, I’m looking at this chat log here. Sixteen minutes into this discussion you ask if she can do ‘deep throat’. Explain that to me.

    Cogburn: No reason to explain it.

    Hansen: No reason to explain it. (reading from chat) “How do you feel about sex?” “You on birth control?” or “Are you sticking with condoms?” “you got toys”?

    Cogburn: is there any ah

    Hansen: Well I want you to square that with what’s on your MySpace Website where you talk about “Jesus rocks.”


    You’ll hear more about this man’s inner struggle after he’s in police custody.

    And thanks to Big Boss we have Cogburn’s MySpace. His MySpace username is “crazyforchristcoggy”. It seems he’s crazier for underage girls.

  • Katherine Lester in Seventeen Magazine

    Katherine Lester in Seventeen Magazine

    Mich. teen recounts MySpace romance to magazine:

    Our favorite runaway to the Middle East, Katherine Lester, is back in the headlines again for telling her story to Seventeen Magazine…

    GILFORD A Michigan teenager who flew to the Middle East to be with a man she met on MySpace.com has detailed her online romance and the fallout her trip caused in Seventeen magazine.

    In the article in the October issue of Seventeen, which hit newsstands Tuesday, 17-year-old Katherine Lester writes about how she has worked to regain her parents’ trust since her romance was revealed and became international news.

    “While my parents were supportive through the legal issues, I can see how much our relationship has changed because of what I did in good ways and bad,’ Lester wrote. “No matter how many times I say I’m sorry, I can’t get back their trust.”

    Lester developed an online romance with Abdullah Jimzawi, a 20-year-old Palestinian who lives in the West Bank town of Jericho. For months, she kept the relationship secret before disappearing June 5 from her mother’s home in Gilford, 80 miles north of Detroit.

    “I couldn’t imagine going halfway across the globe,” she wrote in the magazine. “But I realized I didn’t want to wait either.”

    Her father, Terry Lester, who lives near Flint, has declined requests from The Associated Press to interview his daughter. He said Thursday that she is back in high school for her senior year.

    Katherine Lester wrote in the magazine that she and Jimzawi talk daily on the telephone for about an hour. And she reiterated her plans to marry him.

    =”Although a lot of people, including my parents, don’t believe us, we really do love each other and we are going to get married someday,” she wrote. “Love is full of tests, and we’re going to pass ours.”

    What a great message Seventeen is sending to its readers. It’s ok for girls to run off to marry someone at the age of 16. It’s a guarantee that he’ll love you forever. Please.

    And why is her father still allowing her to talk to Abdullah Psycho every day for an hour?

    This whole thing is starting to smell of cashing in. I’ll lay odds that a Lifetime movie gets made about this.

  • Eric Roscoe

    Eric Roscoe

    MySpace user gets arrested locally:

    I’m going to spare you from copying and pasting this article because it is so poorly written it’s making my left eye bleed. So here it is in a nutshell…

    One 20-year-old Eric Roscoe from Lake Charles, La. was arrested in DeRidder, La. for carnal knowledge of a juvenile and computer-aided solicitation because he was diddling a 15-year-old girl.

    If you can get through the article without having an aneurysm, then you’re a better man than me.

  • Which Amendment is that exactly?

    Which Amendment is that exactly?

    Attorney for “My-Space” Attacker Claims Constitutional Protection:

    For those of you who may have forgotten, Pete Solis is the 19-year-old at the crux of the MySpace lawsuit. The victim’s mother is suing MySpace because Solis sexually assaulted her 14-year-old daughter. Solis’ attorney in the criminal proceedings has made possibly the most outrageous legal claim ever this side of bad police and lawyering shows on TV…

    The attorney for a 19-year-old man accused of sexual assault claims the U-S Constitution protects him from full responsibility for having sex with a 14-year-old girl.

    Yes, you read that right. I’ll let you continue now…

    Pete Solis reportedly met his victim via “My-Space.com,” apparently leading to dinner and a movie back in May, allegedly followed by sexually assaulting the victim afterwards in a shopping center parking lot.

    “We are saying that to create liability for only one party–for the older party, and not the younger party–that violates Equal Protection,” attorney Adam Reposa says outside a Travis County courtroom this morning.

    Reposa claims that extends to protection of procreation rights, despite the victim’s age. He maintains that he is not trying to vilify the 14-year-old victim.

    Solis would face up to 20 years in jail and permanent registration as a sex offender, if he’s convicted. A judge will hear Reposa’s argument next Monday.

    Yeah, I had to pick my jaw up off the floor too.

    Is this assclown serious? Constitutionally protected child molestation? If any judge allows this, they should be immediately removed from the bench, dragged out into the street, and pelted with rocks and garbage. And so should this attorney for even attempting such a defense.

  • Alvaro Castillo’s MySpace

    Alvaro Castillo’s MySpace

    Suspect’s Web page offers a glimpse of his life:

    This is an article from the newspaper that Alvaro Castillo sent the video to about Castillo’s MySpace. I’ve been looking for his MySpace since the story broke. Anyway, on to the article…

    Handguns, shotguns and rifles.

    Those are what Alvaro Castillo listed as his general interests on his Myspace.com page.

    He also wrote that he likes cooking, cleaning, singing and target practice.

    Under Alvaro’s “pics” is a photograph that depicts him holding a pair of scissors above another male’s head as if he was going to stab him. The caption reads, “Attempted Murder. Are you scared? Ha ha.”

    The 19-year-old lists his heroes on his site. They include “God, Mom, Dad, Victoria…”

    Let’s stop right there for a second. If his dad was his hero, why did he kill him?

    He also writes that he would most like to meet John Hinckley Jr., Tom Hanks, Michael Moore and God.

    I can see why he’d want to meet John Hinckley, since they’re both batshit crazy gunmen. I wonder why he wanted to meet Fatboy, though. And he may just get his wish in that last one.

    Also on his MySpace, he lists Bowling for Columbine as one of his favorite movies. I think that movie has helped in more school shootings than it tried to prevent.

    You can see Alvaro Castillo’s MySpace for yourself.