TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Category: Social Media Crime

  • Virginia man caught with 15-year-old Illinois girl

    Man sought sex with girl, 15, police say:

    21-year-old Kriz Jerome Cabadin of Centreville, Va. has been arrested for having sex with a 15-year-old girl from Edwardsville, Illinois.

    Cabadin had met the 15-year-old over the net and had flown at least three times from Virginia to Illinois. His laptop also contained child porn. It’s unknown if the child porn was something separate or if it was pictures of the girl.

    Cabadin has been charged with federal charges of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.

    According to Cabadin’s MySpace, he’s married and it also looks like he may be another Juggalo as well.

    His Netlog says he’s single.

    Thanks to Tim for the tip.

  • More on Michael Jacques new legal team

    Death Penalty Experts Join Jacques’ Defense Team:

    The fancy pants lawyers that will be advising Michael Jacques are David Ruhnke and Jean DeSales Barrett of the New Jersey law firm of Ruhnke & Barrett.

    After slogging through the spam that most lawyer pages are I did find out that they are specialists in federal death penalty cases. Jacques is facing federal charges of kidnapping on the death of his niece Brooke Bennett. Jacques is also a convicted sex offender.

    Allegedly Ruhnke & Barrett have never had a client executed. If Jacques is guilty of Brooke’s death here’s hoping their streak comes to an end.

  • To catch a Shadow

    Police: Predator targeted teen websites:

    29-year-old Warren Nanney of Boise, Idaho was arrested this past Friday in child porn charges.

    Nanney was said to have been in possession of images of 14 and 15-year-old girls. Using the handles of “Shadow” and “Jadedwasted” Nanney cruised the usual places looking for young girls. Investigators say that he used Myspace, Facebook, and Myyearbook to find his victims. It’s alleged that he had sex with two girls who were under the age of 16 by posing as a 16-year-old.

    “He had over 500 contacts, 500 people listed as friends and 90 percent of them were under the age of 18, females who were in the Treasure Valley,” said Bill Crawford, a detective with the Caldwell Police Department.

    Hopefully, this serial scumbag will be put away for a long time.

  • Michael Jacques gets hot shot legal team

    Jacques Assigned More Lawyers:

    The accused kidnapper and possible killer of Brooke Bennett has been assigned some more legal assistance. Michael Jacques will be receiving legal counsel from a husband and wife team of lawyers from New Jersey. It’s alleged that none of their clients have ever been put to death.

    If they usually practice in New Jersey that’s no big feat. Jersey hasn’t executed anyone since before I was born and they did away with the death penalty this year.

    So will the prosecution now get a legal team that has had everyone they’ve prosecuted executed? I hope so. If Jacques is guilty of the crimes he’s accused of he needs to be put down like a dog.

    Vermont does not have the death penalty but Jacques is more than likely looking at federal charges.

  • Mercades Nichols arrested again

    Girl In Taped Beating Case Arrested Again:

    Mercades Nichols, she of the Victoria Lindsay beating, has been arrested once again for charges not related to the beating.

    Sometime between Oct. 31 and March 28, Nichols stalked and threatened the victim online and in person, even when Nichols was aware that an injunction had been placed against her, Wood said.

    “She harassed, cyber-stalked and placed the victim in fear,” Wood said, reading from the arrest warrant.

    The victim is said to be Nichols’ ex-boyfriend.

    She’s being held without bond.

  • The man behind Megan Had it Coming

    Notorious Kirkland troll tells how to avoid his wrath:

    Some of you may remember the “Megan Had it Coming” blog that was supposed to have been written by Lori Drew. As it turned out it was a complete hoax. The funny thing is that the man behind the site was once lauded by this very site.

    Jason Fortuny was praised by me for conducting what was called the Craigslist Experiment.

    Posing as a woman looking for sex, Fortuny snared 170 men through a fake Craigslist ad, then publicly released the men’s names, e-mails and other personal information.

    I actually thought that was clever and funny, MHIC not so much.

    Fortuny prides himself on being an internet troll if not the internet troll. As much as I thought MHIC was uncalled for I have to give him credit. He pulled the wool over a lot of people’s eyes. It made me shake my head that so many people fell for an obvious hoax. All I have to say to that is, well-played sir.

    Trolling sometimes comes with a price as Mr. Fortuny is being sued for his craigslist experiment.

  • SD man accused of raping 15-year-old

    Man Accused Of Raping Teen Met On MySpace:

    23-year-old Nate Rinken of Sioux Falls, South Dakota is accused of raping a 15-year-old girl that he met on MySpace.

    According to court papers, the 15-year-old victim says in the months after meeting Rinken online, she met up with him in person three or four times. The last meeting, in May, began with Rinken picking her up from work and taking her back to his house .

    While talking in his bedroom, she says Rinken starting kissing her. She pulled away and told him to stop. She says he pulled her clothes off and began to rape her as she shook her head and said “no.”

    According to police Rinken admits having sex with the girl. Age of consent in SD is 16.

    Now I know we’re going to hear the usual excuses. “What kind of girl is she?” “Where were her parents?” etc. To you, I say this. If a 23-year-old guy wants to stay out of trouble he shouldn’t meet with a 15-year-old he met online.

    Thanks to Gage for the tip.

  • PA AG does things the right way

    MySpace Helps AG Crackdown On Sex Offenders:

    Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett is in the process of possibly cracking down on 185 Pa. sex offenders that are on MySpace.

    What is AG Corbett doing differently than most of the AG’s I’ve written about? He’s not grandstanding and he’s not putting the blame to MySpace to garner votes. (Unlike AG’s Blumenthal, Cuomo, and Cooper.)

    “So we were able to discover who they were – at least MySpace was. Our concern is that there’s other people who are registered sex offenders that probably have MySpace accounts that there’s no way if they use an alias that we’re going to discover.”

    Wow, he even addresses the issue of sex offenders using aliases on MySpace and he does it realistically.

    Once the records from MySpace have been reviewed the AG’s office will be forwarding the information to the sex offenders’ parole officers.

    Other AG’s should take note that this is how to get things done instead of pandering to clueless soccer moms.

    Thanks to Gage for the tip.

  • Gagnon’s computer still missing

    Search Continues For Computer Belonging To Child Sex Ring Suspect:

    The search for Ray Gagnon’s computer continues. Gagnon is the ex-stepfather of Brooke Bennett and instructed a friend of his to dispose of his computer at the time of Brooke’s disappearance.

    Originally investigators believed that it was it a San Antonio landfill since that where Gagnon lives. However, they were unable to find the computer in the landfill. Now they’re posting fliers in Gagnon’s neighborhood hoping that someone picked it up out of the trash.

    The computer allegedly contains a vast amount of child porn and could possibly contain evidence regarding Brooke’s disappearance.

  • Things are afoot at Wawa

    Police arrest Pa. teen in Margate through internet sex sting:

    19-year-old Michael Williams of Pennsburg, Pennsylvania was arrested in Margate, NJ over this past weekend for trying to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex.

    Williams had met the 13-year-old girl over MySpace and prior to his arrest had sex with the girl. The girl’s mother found out and notified the local police. Police then posed as the 13-year-old and arranged for Williams to meet the ‘girl’ at a Wawa (convenience store) parking lot where he was promptly arrested.