TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: internet-sting

  • 7 arrested in MySpace sting

    Seven men arrested in Twiggs County child Internet sting:

    Seven men from Twiggs County, Georgia have been arrested in an internet child predator sting.

    Deputies teamed up with a group called Perverted Justice, whose workers posed as 13- and 14-year-old girls on Web sites such as Yahoo.com and Myspace.com. The men, ages 24 to 64, live in various parts of the state and are charged with a variety of charges such as computer child exploitation online and obscene Internet contact with a child. One man was a former high school coach, and another was a youth mentor at a church, investigators said.

    Here is a link to their names and mugshots. For historical purpose, their names are Jeffrey Pansino, Shaharyar Rashid, James Ronald Cosby, Daniel Eric Bowman, Robert Elton Hill, Casey Dykes, and Kenneth Mack Smith.

    If there are that many predators in such a small area I shudder to think how many must be in a big city.

  • Yet another Creeper solicits a cop

    Yet another Creeper solicits a cop

    Deputy: Solicitation suspect said age didn’t matter:

    This time it’s in Missouri…

    A Bollinger County sheriff’s deputy testified in court Tuesday that a Jackson man arrested in an undercover police sting for soliciting sex with an underage girl had told the minor “age didn’t matter.”

    Following a preliminary hearing before Associate Circuit Judge Gary A. Kamp, Irvin E. Holderbaugh Jr., 40, was bound over to circuit court on charges of attempted statutory rape.

    During the hearing, Bollinger County deputy Kevin Otte said the defendant solicited a 14-year-old girl, who was actually an undercover officer, over the Internet.

    “He would like to have her and age didn’t matter,” Otte said of the defendant.

    The Bollinger County Sheriff’s Department set up a profile of a 14-year-old girl on the Web site MySpace.com, with a picture of a 21-year-old Bollinger County sheriff’s dispatcher when she was 18 years old posing as the minor.

    Holderbaugh began chatting with the girl online and sent her 10 pictures of himself, five of which were pornographic, Otte said.

    On March 11, the two arranged to meet at Jackson’s City Park to later have sex, according to Otte.

    And here’s the really sick part…

    As Holderbaugh began walking toward the dispatcher, police arrested him. During a search, officers found seven condoms, 11 Viagra pills, and a boxcutter knife on his person, Otte said.

    It’s scary to think what he might have planned with that box cutter.

    And thanks to the ever reliable Mr. A, we have what, we believe, is Holderbaugh’s MySpace profile. Here we have another case where a predator’s friends list consists mainly of porn stars. I have nothing against porn per se, but if your entire life revolves around porn than you may have a problem.