TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: MySpace

  • 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.

  • Unemployed loser busted for child sex

    Police: Teen victims say they met man on MySpace:

    22-year-old Angel Eduardo Leyva of Sparks, Nevada was arrested on charges of child porn and child sex abuse.

    Leyva is accused of having sex with a 14-year-old girl he met over MySpace and is also accused of threatening other underage girls to send him nude pics of themselves.

    Not surprisingly Leyva is unemployed and lives with his father. What a shock.

  • Lori Drew’s lawyer files to dismiss

    Defense Lawyer Files to Dismiss MySpace Case:

    Lori Drew’s defense attorney has filed a motion to have the fraud charges against her dismissed. He claims that if Lori Drew is criminally guilty of violating MySpace’s TOS than so are we all. Considering I’m sure we’ve all violated a TOS or two in our times.

    Except here’s the difference. When I give Yahoo a fake name and address a teenage girl doesn’t die because of it.

  • Mercades Nichols’ mom files lawsuit

    Legal Action Considered Against Polk Sheriff:

    This one is from the “Boy does that woman have brass ones” department.

    Christina Garcia is the mother of Mercades Nichols. Mercades is one of if not the main suspect in the videotaped beating of Victoria Lindsay.

    You would think that Ms. Garcia has more important matters to attend to like making sure her daughter stays out of jail but no. Ms. Garcia has taken it upon herself to file a lawsuit against Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd for making ‘defamatory’ remarks and causing ‘severe emotional damages’.

    In her intent to sue notice, Bernard wrote that Judd failed to handle the arrest of the teens “with integrity and a degree of care” that would have protected them “against unfair treatment and exposure.”

    Judd has described the March 30 beating in published news stories as “animalistic” and said that after the teens were arrested, they were laughing together in a holding cell, saying “Am I going to miss cheerleading practice?” and “I guess we’re not going to the beach this week.”

    I didn’t know you could be sued for the truth. Garcia’s face is causing me severe emotional damages. Can I sue for that?

  • Puking DUI killer

    Alleged DUI killer’s MySpace profile depicts youth consumed with money, drugs and graffiti:

    This is a great article from the Philadelphia Daily News which happens to be my favorite newspaper of all time. It’s about one 18-year-old Joseph Genovese Jr. Genovese is accused in the DUI death of one woman and the injury of another, both from who were only in town to see their favorite team, the St. Louis Cardinals, play the Phillies. Police allege that Genovese ran a red light while under the influence then struck 43-year-old Cindy Grassi, who was killed and 36-year-old Sandra Wacker.

    As what happens in some of these cases involving young kids police and media go looking at the suspect’s MySpace and they found a plethora of damning information. Genovese fashioned himself a pot smoking, drinking, tagging, thug on MySpace. I implore you to read the entire article so you can see the depths of ridiculousness on his MySpace. At one point he was using his mugshot as his profile pic.

    Of course in real life, he’s no gangsta at all…

    According to one law enforcement source, Genovese was nowhere near as tough as he appears on his MySpace page when he turned himself in with his lawyer and family on Tuesday afternoon to AID.

    The teen looked “pale-faced and kept throwing up,” the source said. The source said that Genovese didn’t say much, except that he was distraught over the incident.

    He’s hardcore.

    Now while this waste of matter sits in jail I’m sure I’ll be inundated by all his stupid buddies saying “FrEe J-BoNeZ” or some stupid crap like that.