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March 26, 2006

MySpace Mug Shot

Tim Boucher: Pop Occulture exposes police criminal investigation techniques.
All you MySpace suspects and criminals, you can't hide from the police! Unless your only crime is having too many friends, or eating too much while surfing the net! Seriously though, police are now using MySpace to catch criminals, and locate their whereabouts. Pop Occulture has more:

BOULDER, Colorado — Detectives used profiles posted on the MySpace social networking website to identify six suspects in a rape and robbery that began when a party turned violent, leaving blood “in almost every room of the house,” officials said.

(snip)

The group met for a party. “At some point, the victim was no longer aware of what was happening, and she was sexually assaulted,” Bartley said.

She knew only their first names but their pictures were posted on MySpace. “Primarily, we pulled up her friends list. It helped us identify some of the players,” said Bartley.

And we all complain about the Privacy Act, when we are willingly placing ourselves in a vulnerable and very "public" sphere. I don't have a MySpace account, and for the record I am not a criminal :), I just value my privacy.

What do you think?

Police Catch Criminals on MySpace, Police MySpace,

Posted by Sophie at March 26, 2006 05:35 PM

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