Girl posts photos of her with large sum of cash, Thieves like photos and...
A 17-year-old girl posted a photo of a large sum of cash on Facebook. Hours later a gang of masked men, armed with knives and clubs, broke into the home of the girl’s mother in the country town of...
View ArticleMother chokes boy after he wrote on daughter’s Facebook: “She is so ugly I...
An irate mother allegedly choked a 14-year-old boy in a Florida mall after he wrote on Facebook that her daughter was so ugly he wouldn’t even rape her. 46-year-old Debbie Piscitella ofrom St....
View ArticleCourt sentences man to 10 years for Twitter insults
A defense lawyer says that a Kuwait court has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for Twitter posts which were deemed insulting to Islam and to the rulers of Gulf allies Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. The...
View ArticleOnline love hoax prompted man’s revenge plot
It is a classic Internet love story gone wrong: Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy exchanges nude photos with girl. Boy discovers girl is actually a gay guy. Boy plots revenge killings....
View ArticleCraigslist buyer and seller both brought guns to deal
Baltimore police said that a Craigslist buy went bad when both the buyer and the seller brought guns to the meeting and the seller attempted a robbery. A man and a woman arranged to meet with two men...
View ArticleMan who allegedly faked cat’s death arrested for insurance fraud
A 29-year-old Tacoma man who allegedly tried to scam $20,000 from an insurance company with a picture of a cat from the Internet has been charged with fraud and attempted theft. According to the...
View ArticleMan stabbed over World of Warcraft argument
A Peterborough, Ontario, man got so enraged over the online videogame World of Warcraft that he allegedly stabbed a neighbour in the chest, sending him to hospital. “I was sitting in my house today...
View ArticlePolice accuse man of breaking into homes to view internet porn
Eugene Police Property Crimes Detectives have arrested 21-year-old Antone Forrest Deedward Owens of Eugene, Oregon, after investigating a series of cases where the suspect broke into homes – sometimes...
View ArticlePuppeteer conspired to torture, rape, murder, and eat toddlers … and...
A popular, 57-year-old puppeteer in Florida was arrested on charges of conspiring to kidnap children and possessing child pornography after chatting online with another man about his desire to kidnap,...
View ArticleDriver took photo of dying hit-and-run victim then posted snap online instead...
A teenage driver in Scotland took a photo of a dying hit-and-run victim and posted it on Twitter for a joke. Ikram Choudhury, 19, saw the man lying in the road but did not try to help or call 999....
View ArticleMan mistakes Mitt Romney for girlfriend’s lover
A 40-year-old man from Tennessee who is accused of domestic assault allegedly became enraged after he saw a picture of a strange man on his girlfriend’s Facebook page and suspected she was planning an...
View ArticleMan banned from Facebook over sex ratings page
A court in Australia has banned a man from using Facebook for two years. He had created a page on the social networking site which rated the sexual performance of women in central Victoria. 22-year-old...
View ArticleWoman spots her child for sale on Internet
A Canadian woman called police when she found an online ad offering her baby for sale based on photos she’d posted on Facebook. The unidentified woman in the central British Columbia town of Fort St....
View ArticleTwo 13-year-old boys steal parent’s car, drive it hundreds of miles to Kansas...
Two 13-year-old Ohio boys stole a parent’s car and drove it hundreds of miles away to Kansas City, Mo. They were later found sleeping in a downtown alley. Police had known the runaways from the...
View ArticleTeen uses fake gun to steal fantasy coins for video game ‘RuneScape’
A video-game addict forced a fellow geek to fork over 4.7 billion “magic” coins after pulling out a realistic-looking gun during a robbery in a Fordham University classroom. The coins which are used to...
View ArticlePartners in crime implicated by matching tattoos
An Australian couple who stole almost $18,000 in an armed robbery were caught after they celebrated their heist with a pair of matching tattoos. John Robert Cole, 30, and Shailee Jane Kingston, 19, of...
View ArticleGeeks outraged after thief causes 15-hour Internet outage
Geeks in Ohio were outraged after a 15-hour internet outage was caused by a “very dumb criminal” who stole a length of wire from a utility pole. Ken Johnson, company manager of Conneaut Telephone Co.,...
View ArticleMen arrested over staged machete attack
Police in Lawrence, Massachusetts, report that three men were arrested following a staged act involving a simulated machete attack at a public festival. The staged attack, which was being filmed by the...
View ArticlePolice capture sex offender after his girlfriend ‘likes’ their department on...
Tazewell County Sheriff’s Office used Facebook to track down a missing sex offender after his girlfriend “liked” the department’s page on the social networking site. 29-year-old Dyllan Naecher is a...
View ArticleMan who hacked student election site, changed it to ‘erection’ is fined
A former Western University graduate student in Canada who hacked into the students’ union election site last February has been fined and granted a conditional discharge. 23-year-old Keith Horwood...
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