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  • Man forces teen to expose herself with threats of violence

    Cops: Teen coerced to expose herself over Web:

    BINGHAMTON, N.Y. – A 25-year-old man faces federal charges after police said he threatened a young teenage girl and coerced her into using a Web camera to take explicit images that he later posted on the online social network Myspace.com.

    Shaun Brown was arrested and arraigned Monday in federal court on charges that he coerced a minor to engage in a sexual act and that he coerced a minor over the Internet.

    Brown met the 13-year-old girl, who lives in Ohio, in an online chat room for cheerleaders, according to court documents.

    Police said he pursued her with sexually explicit instant messages and threatened to harm her and her family if she didn’t expose herself via the Web cam.

    The girl complied and didn’t tell her parents until after she found the images on Myspace.com. Brown opened an account on the social networking site in the teenager’s name and posted an image of the girl exposing herself and included her name and address, according to court documents.

    What a sick son of a bitch.

    I was unable to find a MySpace for Brown.

    Thanks to Mandy for the tip.

  • Chanel’s last words

    Chanel’s last words

    SLAIN TEEN’S CHILLING LAST WORDS TO PAL:

    This is a rather unsettling article about Chanel Petro-Nixon’s last known words on MySpace before her body was found…

    August 14, 2006 — A tragic Brooklyn teen whose body was found in a Dumpster six weeks ago left an eerily chilling note to a pal only days before her gruesome murder.

    “I LOVE YOU,” studious 16-year-old Chanel Petro Nixon wrote to her friend on her page on the popular Web site Myspace.com. “If you were killed tomorrow, I’m sorry I wouldn’t be able to come to your funeral cuz I’d be in jail for killing the person who did it.”

    Her murder was just profiled on AMW and I wish I would have seen it, but it was pre-empted locally for pre-season football.

    I hope her killer is brought to justice soon.

  • Woman kills stepdad with scissors over MySpace

    Woman kills stepdad with scissors over MySpace

    Woman held after stepdad killed with scissors:

    A young Brooklyn mother killed her stepfather by flinging a pair of scissors into his chest as she reached the boiling point in an long-simmering argument over her living in his house, authorities and witnesses said.

    Police said Lynda Delaney, 26, was expected to be charged Monday night in the death of Daniel Ilardi, 55, who died early Monday, 10 hours after the Sunday afternoon confrontation.

    Police said they were never called to Ilardi’s two-story home in Bensonhurst, where Delaney’s 2-year-old daughter, Alexa, and Delaney’s mother also live. But family members and friends said that Delaney’s living in the house has long been a source of tension.

    “She said, ‘I’m going to kill your father. You’re father’s dead,” said Mathew Ilardi, the victim’s son, recalling Delaney’s words in recent days.

    But several of Delaney’s friends spoke in her defense, saying that she was physically and verbally abused by her stepfather and mother, and was being attacked when she struck Ilardi with the scissors.

    All said that Delaney had been arguing with her stepfather all day on Sunday.

    At one point, the arguing became so heated that Delaney swung a box cutter at her stepfather, who managed to wrestle it away from her, according to Ilardi’s son.

    Jennifer Para, 26, the suspect’s best friend, said the argument began because Delaney wanted to go on the Internet to check her Myspace account.

    At about 5:30 p.m., Delaney allegedly flung the scissors at her stepfather, who was standing about five feet away, according to police and Mathew Ilardi, who witnessed the attack. The scissors struck the stepfather’s chest, piercing his right ventricle before falling to the ground, police said.

    The elder Ilardi, a divorcee and father of six who manages a car storage business, struggled for life at Lutheran Medical Center, until he died at about 3:30 a.m. Monday, police and relatives said.

    I was unable to locate Delaney’s MySpace account.

  • Pimp MySpace…No really (Part II)

    Pimp MySpace…No really (Part II)

    Saved from pimp:

    Senate majority leader Joe Bruno’s missing granddaughter was found yesterday wandering the streets of Times Square with a self-declared pimp – who uses the Internet to entice young women into selling their bodies, police sources said.

    Rachel Bruno, a beautiful 20-year-old blond, ran away from her parents’ upstate home last week after meeting the married grifter, John Savage, on MySpace.com, the sources said.

    Images of half-naked women and piles of money decorate Savage’s MySpace page, which declares: “pimpin at its best.”

    “I believe that I’m the solution for those who r lost or need elevation to there situation,” Savage writes. “My name is Jazzo and my interests in myspace is to meet beautiful young women that want to travel and get down wit a playa.”

    Police were investigating if the admitted 30-year-old pimp had committed a crime relating to Rachel Bruno’s disappearance. He was arrested on an unrelated outstanding warrant.

    Cops found Bruno on W. 45th St. near Broadway shortly before 2 a.m.

    Savage – who lists his occupation as “entertainment” and his income as “$60,000 to $75,000” on MySpace – was idling nearby in a new SUV. The cops asked Bruno to call him and tell him to drive over. When he did, they grabbed him, sources said.

    “She was relieved to be home and scared to death and afraid she would be harmed,” the Republican added, before saying his granddaughter suffers from anorexia and “serious emotional problems” that affect her judgment.

    Savage was being held by cops on a probation violation. He has been on probation since pleading guilty to attempting to bribe Bronx cops, offering them $690 for information on prostitution sweeps in 2002.

    I was unable to find Savage’s MySpace at this time. Any help with that would be appreciated.

  • AMW on Chanel Petro-Nixon

    AMW on Chanel Petro-Nixon

    Unknown Chanel Petro-Nixon Killer:

    This is America’s Most Wanted’s summation of the Murder of 16-year-old Brooklyn girl Chanel Petro-Nixon. Her killer is still at large.

  • The Search for Chanel Petro-Nixon’s killer continues

    The Search for Chanel Petro-Nixon’s killer continues

    Family Of Murdered Teen Ask For Witnesses To Come Forward:

    As police search for the killer of a Brooklyn teenager, her family is asking for any witnesses to come forward.

    Chanel Petro-Nixon’s body was found June 22nd inside a bag on Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights. The medical examiner has determined she was strangled.

    “Somebody out there knows something that led to what happened to Chanel,” said the Reverend Al Sharpton. “I don’t care if they’re black, latino, white. You must come forward. We can’t have community where our children go out with the garbage and we act like it’s normal and remain silent.”

    Police are offering a $22,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

    Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.

    As much as I hate to admit it, Al Sharpton is right.

  • Reward offered in Brooklyn murder

    Reward offered in Brooklyn murder

    12G for tips in teen’s slay:

    A reward is being offered for information in the murder of Chanel Petro-Nixon…

    Cops are offering a $12,000 reward in last week’s shocking murder of a promising 16-year-old Brooklyn girl.

    Chanel Petro-Nixon was last seen on June 18 when she left her apartment on Fulton St. to fill out a job application at an Applebee’s only a few blocks away. She never made it there and was reported missing.

    Chanel’s body was found last Thursday, strangled and stuffed in a garbage bag on Kingston Ave. in Crown Heights.

    A straight-A 10th-grader at Boys and Girls High School, Chanel was a devoted Seventh-Day Adventist. Cops are examining her MySpace page for clues.

    Family members were stunned that the talented girl could be plucked from the bustling commercial strip without anyone noticing.

    Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.

    Hopefully, someone will give police the information needed to bring her killer to justice.

  • Cops using MySpace to search for Brooklyn girl’s killer

    Cops using MySpace to search for Brooklyn girl’s killer

    In murder investigation, police search MySpace.com:

    (Crown Heights-WABC, June 24, 2006) – The NYPD is trying to solve a murder mystery involving a 16-year-old girl from Brooklyn. They are now looking on the popular web site MySpace.com for any leads.

    Police at the 77th Precinct in Crown Heights say they’re still looking for 16-year-old Chanel Petro Nixon killer. They believe it may be someone the victim knew.

    Chanel Petro Nixon will remain sweet-16 for eternity and that’s just how her heart-broken family wants her to be remembered.

    “It’s already out that she was chopped up and she was not. Her body was whole. Her body wasn’t even cut. She wasn’t stabbed or anything,” said Errol Wilson, the victim’s cousin.

    Her family is now in shock. Relatives are trying to cope with the gruesome way the body was found.

    Officials say her remains were discovered stuffed inside a garbage bag that was dumped on Kingston Avenue, just one mile away from home. Police say when they found Chanel’s body she was partially clothed but there were no signs of sexual assault.

    Investigators are now looking into conversations the teen had on MySpace.com, an internet web site popular with teens. Her cousin says the Boys and Girl’s High School student loved to chat online. Still, no one knows who would want to strangle Chanel and put her body in a garbage bag.

    Neighbors say they saw Chanel Sunday morning as she crossed the courtyard in front of her building. She was dressed in her Sunday best and on her way to church.

    “She had a long life. A prosperous life ahead of her,” said Wilson. “Unfortunately, it was cut short.”

    I couldn’t find her MySpace at this time, but I will keep you up to date on any developments in this case.

    My prayers and condolences go out to the Nixon family.

    UPDATE: Chanel’s MySpace is here.

  • New York piles on

    New York piles on

    Pirro continues pressure on MySpace website:

    Now the New York State attorney general candidate Jeanine Pirro is jumping on the MySpace pile…

    Following two recent arrests by the FBI, New York State attorney general candidate Jeanine Pirro, the former Westchester County district attorney, Monday renewed her call to Rupert Murdoch, owner of MySpace.com, to convene a forum immediately between social networking sites owners and managers, teacher and parent representatives, and law enforcement experts to tackle the problem of child safety on Internet social networking sites.

    Pirro refuted a recent statement by MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe that “this isn’t a MySpace issue.” Pirro said, “There are special obligations imposed on anyone operating sites where teens are admitted — whether the site is a playground, recreation center or a social networking website. Once site operators know that sexual predators are congregating there to prey on children, they must act immediately to protect them.”

    First off, MySpace is only a small cog of Rupert Murdoch’s giant empire. He pays people to handle situations like this. So calling him out is not going to win you any friends. Secondly, MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe has a point, to a certain extent, that “this isn’t a MySpace issue.”

    Again, it comes down to that endangered species known as personal responsibility. Now, I am far from saying that any victims deserved what happened to them. However, if parents would teach their kids about the dangers of posting personal information online and would take the time to monitor their children’s internet activity, then this wouldn’t be a problem.