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Juror Sentenced To 8 Months Prison, Found Guilty Of Contempt After Contacting Defendant On Facebook
On Tuesday we reported on the juror who was found guilty of contempt for chatting with a defendant on Facebook in August of last year. Her sentence had not been decided but on Thursday she was sentenced 8 months in prison. Joanne Fraill admitted to using Facebook to talk with Jamie Sewart, a 34-year-old who was a defendant in a multi-million-pound drug case.... Read more » Teenager Faces Animal Cruelty Charges After Hanging Puppy From Clothes Line, Posting Pictures To Facebook
A teenager from the Philippines is likely facing animal cruelty charges after he pegged his puppy to a clothing line and posted the pictures on Facebook. Jerzon Senador allegedly pulled the stunt because he was bored -- what a poor excuse! In the photos, the puppy which is shown to be smaller than Sendaor's face, is dangling from a clothes line with clothes pins... Read more » Woman Arrested For Using Facebook To Find Hitman For Her Baby’s Father
If you're angry and want to throw around death threats to blow off steam, it's probably a good idea to just keep it to yourself instead. London Eley, a 20-year-old mom, learned this lesson when she was arrested for attempting to hire someone to kill her baby's father for $1,000 through Facebook. I guess Eley forgot that Facebook saves everything that is posted, how... Read more » 2 Individuals Win Large Settlement, Posts Photo of Cash On Facebook, Robbed At Gunpoint
On Monday morning, 2 men violently broke into a home, and police say a Facebook photo is to blame. The 2 victims recently won a large sum of money in a lawsuit settlement and took a photo of themselves posing with lots of cash and a gun. They later posted that photo on Facebook. Didn't anyone ever tell them not to brag or flaunt wads of cash? Maybe they thought... Read more » Sex Offender Uses 4-Year-Old Daughter To Meet Teenage Girls, Friends Them On Facebook
A 38-year-old registered sex offender has been arrested for 1 count of child enticement and 1 count of sex offender registry violation after befriending teen girls on Facebook. Raven K. Laws allegedly used his 4-year-old daughter to lure high school aged girls into becoming his friend on the social network. The man met at least 3 girls who were between the ages of... Read more » UPDATE: Ex-Wife Poses As Teenage Girl On Facebook, Friends Ex-Husband To Get Critical Information For Custody Battle
A woman in a custody battle created a fake Facebook account in attempt to get damaging information about her ex-husband and she actually pulled it off. She might have only been looking for enough information to give her custody over their children, but she found enough to get him arrested. In May, 29-year-old Angela Voelkert created a fake Facebook account for... Read more » Weinergate: Steamy Facebook Chats Between Rep. Anthony Weiner, Woman Revealed
Lisa Weiss, a blackjack dealer from Las Vegas, has released the transcript of Facebook chats that she claims she had with Rep. Anthony Weiner. The chats are sexual in nature and were made public after the New York congressman admitted that he had taken part in explicit online conversations with 6 women over the last 3 years. Weiss, who passed the transcript to... Read more »
Woman Beats Down Friend With Baseball Bat, Brags About It On Facebook
Word to the wise: if you're going to commit brutal assault and then lie about it to the police, you should probably not brag about it on Facebook. Apparently, Tamela Brown never received that memo - just like she never received the memo about not beating up your friends with a baseball bat. She is now wanted on assault with a deadly weapon charge and the police are... Read more »
Convicted Pedophile Violates Probation, Arrested For Logging On To Facebook At Apple Store
Police arrested a known sex offender after he tried to log on to Facebook at an Apple Store in California, violating his probation. Robert Nicholas McGuire, 35, has a history of sex offenses, including a child pornography charge that resulted in a ban from ever using the Internet. McGuire was caught by two alert detectives who spotted him at an Apple Store using... Read more »
Teen Boy Issued Warning After His Facebook Activity Prompts Pedophile Scare
Well, this is interesting. A 16-year-old boy received a stern warning from police after his Facebook activity prompted a pedophile alert in his area. Let's explore this Facebook FAIL. The boy allegedly created two fake Facebook profiles and began contacting and sending friend requests to a multitude of young girls. After befriending the girls online, he would send... Read more »
