Net Crimes Newsletter - November 19, 2012
I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .Man: Bathroom cam was for supervising
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/11/1
Police in Florida said a JCPenny worker accused of planting a camera in the women's bathroom said he wanted to make sure his co-workers were doing their jobs.
Authorities said the Loss Prevention Officer at the West Palm Beach Store noticed the ceiling fan in the bathroom was dislodged just after 9 a.m, Monday and a closer examination revealed a cellphone aimed toward the bathroom's toilets was recording video, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Wednesday.
The officer told police she suspected employee Raphael Dieguez to be behind the incident and the found phone rang when officers called the number the worker had given his employers.
Police said Dieguez revealed during questioning that his real name was Marco Bartolon-Velasquez, 26, and he had been using his brother's name for "employment purposes" because he had been in the country illegally for four years.
Bartolon-Velasquez said he had been filming in the bathroom since last Christmas.
"He went on to say that he had only done it today to monitor how well his employees were cleaning," the police report says.
Police did not say what position the suspect held at the store. He told police he had never filmed inside the men's bathroom.
Bartolon-Velasquez was charged with video voyeurism.
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FBI hesitant in cyberstalking cases, except for national security threats - 11/18/12
http://www.examiner.com/article/fbi-hes
The Federal Bureau of Investigations does not as a rule, investigate incidents of cyber-stalking or online harassment in federal criminal complaints. Rather, such incidents are considered by the federal government to be civil matters. In fact, an Associated Press review of cyber-stalking incidents over the last two years, in which the FBI became involved were so few you could count them on both hands - with a finger or two left over.
Michigan man accused of cyberstalking 10 local females - 11/17/12
http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dl
One by one, the young women came to the Kenmore police with disturbing tales of a stranger sending them messages, some by text, some through Facebook and Twitter. His demands were clear: Communicate with me or I’ll send nude pictures of you to your friends and family.
Woman arrested for Beverly police threats - 11/16/12
http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/loca
A 20-year-old Beverly woman was arrested after being accused of threatening to kill police officers and firefighters. Investigators say nine police officers --including the chief -- were sent death threats Wednesday morning. Later in the day, a deputy fire chief received a similar note. In the emails the suspect allegedly explained, “You have all dealt with me,” and, “I have so much anger towards you people.”
How Free Speech Died on Campus - 11/16/12
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142
At Yale University, you can be prevented from putting an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote on your T-shirt. At Tufts, you can be censured for quoting certain passages from the Quran. Welcome to the most authoritarian institution in America: the modern university"a bizarre, parallel dimension," as Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, calls it.
'Storage Wars' Star Brandi Passante: I'm Being Harassed by a Porn Freak! - 11/16/12
http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/stora
Brandi Passante is experiencing more trouble with the man who allegedly posted a fake porn video of her on the internet. Declarations by the "Storage Wars" star and her attorney Linda S. McAleer filed in U.S. District Court in Central California on Thursday indicate that Hunter Moore, the former operator of the web site Is Anyone Up, has violated a temporary restraining order against him.
Cyberbullying restaurant owner gets 90 days in jail - 11/16/12
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/st
An Ottawa restaurant owner has been sentenced to 90 days in jail and probation for two years after she was found guilty of libel against a restaurant reviewer. Marisol Simoes, 42, was found guilty in September of sending lewd emails to the boss of Elayna Katz after the Ottawa woman posted bad reviews of her restaurant, Mambo Nuevo Latino, in 2009.
Women's rights campaigner banned from Facebook after re-posting 'death threat' made against her... as she did not have his permission - 11/16/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art
A woman who took a picture of a threat made against her and posted it on her Facebook page has been banned from the social networking site. Icelandic women’s rights campaigner Hildur Lilliendahl Viggósdóttir received a 30-day ban after she copied the threatening message made to her through another Facebook user’s status – which was set to be visible to the public – and posted it on her own wall.
Peer's revenge over Twitter slurs: McAlpine will sue internet gossips as BBC pays him £185,000 damages following Newsnight report - 11/16/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
Lord McAlpine is taking landmark legal action against internet gossips who falsely branded him a paedophile. Lawyers for the Tory peer warned Twitter users ‘we know who you are’ and urged them to come forward voluntarily or face being pursued through the courts.
Police grapple with internet troll epidemic as convictions for posting online abuse soar by 150% in just four years - 11/15/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
The number of internet trolls convicted in court of bullying online has soared by more than 150 per cent in just four years. New figures show more than 1,200 people last year were convicted of sending offensive, obscene or threatening electronic messages - up from just 498 in 2007. After several high profile cases involving celebrities and families grieving for loved ones being targeted on Twitter, Facebook and chatrooms, police have become more willing to use the full force of the law.
Vodafone call centre worker suspended over claims he “stalked” customer on Facebook - 11/14/12
http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2012/11/1
A VODAFONE call centre worker has been suspended following claims he “stalked” a Scots customer on Facebook. Cheryl Mcgarrigle phoned the mobile network last month to set up a direct debit and was redirected to an Egyptian call centre. The 23-year-old from Glasgow said she was immediately asked for her shoe size by the “creepy” man who answered the phone.
My online dating terror: Spurned internet lover slashed my horse and plotted to torture me - 11/14/12
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-l
When Nathalie Kelderman signed up to an online dating site she was looking for love, romance and even marriage. And with as many as one in five lasting relationships now beginning online, she thought there was little to be worried about. But Nathalie was to learn the hard way that what can look like a match made in heaven on screen, can just as quickly turn into a horrific nightmare.
Drunk Man Accused of Threatening Family Members of an FBI Agent - 11/14/12
http://www.ticklethewire.com/2012/1
There’s an old, time-tested rule: Don’t make phone calls while you’re really inebriated. Peter Joseph Persico apparently couldn’t help himself at a Florida bar when he called the FBI office in Albany and unleashed a torrent of profanity directed at an agent, the Albany Times Union reports.
Conman jailed for 16 months for selling illegal tooth-whitening gel online made with 100 TIMES safe level of cleaning chemicals - 11/14/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
A conman who sold potentially dangerous tooth-whitening gel which contained up to 100 times the legal level of cleaning chemical hydrogen peroxide has been jailed for 16 months.Barrington Armstrong-Thorpe, 68, was found guilty of eight consumer protection offences after a judge told him he had 'lied' his way through a week-long trial.
Man sentenced to nine months in jail for criminally harassing ex-girlfriend - 11/13/12
http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/sente
When a city man found out his girlfriend wanted to end their 2 1/2-year relationship because she thought he was cheating on her, he launched into what the judge called a series of abusive and threatening phone calls, texts, e-mails and other “vile” communications over a 21-month period. The victim believed her boyfriend launched the attack, including the posting on an Internet porn site of a cell phone video he had earlier taken of them having sex, said provincial court Judge Allan Fradsham, as an attempt at “manipulating” her to be with him.
'Holby City's Rosie Marcel: 'Stalker made me consider suicide' - 11/13/12
http://www.digitalspy.com/celebrit
Rosie Marcel, star of BBC One's Holby City, has opened up about her stalking ordeal for the first time. The actress, who plays surgeon Jac Naylor in the hospital drama, admitted that she was "on the edge of a nervous breakdown" and even considered committing suicide. 21-year-old Sarah Rumbelow - who has ADHD and Asperger's syndrome - was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail last month after a court heard that she sent Marcel physically and sexually threatening emails, texts and tweets.
Man arrested after alleged attempt to hack into bank account of father shot dead in French Alps - 11/12/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
A Nigerian man has been arrested on suspicion of trying to get into the bank accounts of a British engineer murdered in the Alps alongside family members. Abiodun David John, 33, is said to have tried to access money belonging to Saad Al-Hilli, 50, who was shot dead close to Lake Annecy, in eastern France, on September 5. The wife and mother-in-law of Mr Al-Hilli, of Claygate, Surrey, died alongside side him, while a French cyclist was gunned down nearby.
Teenager is arrested for burning a poppy on Facebook: Family brand him 'idiotic' but say police went too far - 11/12/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
A teenager who drunkenly posted a picture of himself burning a poppy on Facebook was in police custody last night. Officers arrested Linford House after they received a complaint about the image that was published in the early hours of Remembrance Sunday. When police called at his parents’ home that evening, the 19-year-old had already taken down the image on a friend’s advice..
'Bottoms up': What Home Office interpreter said after dropping sleeping pill into college student's coffee and raping her as she slept - 11/12/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
A ‘conniving and dangerous’ Home Office interpreter has been jailed for nine years after drugging a 24-year-old college student and raping her at her home while she was asleep. Tang Ge, 38, of Irlam, Greater Manchester, had met the unidentified woman after putting an advert on an online community forum looking for someone to do domestic chores, police said.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/11/1
Police in Florida said a JCPenny worker accused of planting a camera in the women's bathroom said he wanted to make sure his co-workers were doing their jobs.
Authorities said the Loss Prevention Officer at the West Palm Beach Store noticed the ceiling fan in the bathroom was dislodged just after 9 a.m, Monday and a closer examination revealed a cellphone aimed toward the bathroom's toilets was recording video, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Wednesday.
The officer told police she suspected employee Raphael Dieguez to be behind the incident and the found phone rang when officers called the number the worker had given his employers.
Police said Dieguez revealed during questioning that his real name was Marco Bartolon-Velasquez, 26, and he had been using his brother's name for "employment purposes" because he had been in the country illegally for four years.
Bartolon-Velasquez said he had been filming in the bathroom since last Christmas.
"He went on to say that he had only done it today to monitor how well his employees were cleaning," the police report says.
Police did not say what position the suspect held at the store. He told police he had never filmed inside the men's bathroom.
Bartolon-Velasquez was charged with video voyeurism.
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Visit WHOA on the web at http://www.haltabuse.org
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NEWS TO USE AND PASS ALONG!
(DISCLAIMER: The following news items were found on the web and were not written or endorsed by WHO@; they are for informational purposes only)
FBI hesitant in cyberstalking cases, except for national security threats - 11/18/12
http://www.examiner.com/article/fbi-hes
The Federal Bureau of Investigations does not as a rule, investigate incidents of cyber-stalking or online harassment in federal criminal complaints. Rather, such incidents are considered by the federal government to be civil matters. In fact, an Associated Press review of cyber-stalking incidents over the last two years, in which the FBI became involved were so few you could count them on both hands - with a finger or two left over.
Michigan man accused of cyberstalking 10 local females - 11/17/12
http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dl
One by one, the young women came to the Kenmore police with disturbing tales of a stranger sending them messages, some by text, some through Facebook and Twitter. His demands were clear: Communicate with me or I’ll send nude pictures of you to your friends and family.
Woman arrested for Beverly police threats - 11/16/12
http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/loca
A 20-year-old Beverly woman was arrested after being accused of threatening to kill police officers and firefighters. Investigators say nine police officers --including the chief -- were sent death threats Wednesday morning. Later in the day, a deputy fire chief received a similar note. In the emails the suspect allegedly explained, “You have all dealt with me,” and, “I have so much anger towards you people.”
How Free Speech Died on Campus - 11/16/12
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142
At Yale University, you can be prevented from putting an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote on your T-shirt. At Tufts, you can be censured for quoting certain passages from the Quran. Welcome to the most authoritarian institution in America: the modern university"a bizarre, parallel dimension," as Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, calls it.
'Storage Wars' Star Brandi Passante: I'm Being Harassed by a Porn Freak! - 11/16/12
http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/stora
Brandi Passante is experiencing more trouble with the man who allegedly posted a fake porn video of her on the internet. Declarations by the "Storage Wars" star and her attorney Linda S. McAleer filed in U.S. District Court in Central California on Thursday indicate that Hunter Moore, the former operator of the web site Is Anyone Up, has violated a temporary restraining order against him.
Cyberbullying restaurant owner gets 90 days in jail - 11/16/12
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/st
An Ottawa restaurant owner has been sentenced to 90 days in jail and probation for two years after she was found guilty of libel against a restaurant reviewer. Marisol Simoes, 42, was found guilty in September of sending lewd emails to the boss of Elayna Katz after the Ottawa woman posted bad reviews of her restaurant, Mambo Nuevo Latino, in 2009.
Women's rights campaigner banned from Facebook after re-posting 'death threat' made against her... as she did not have his permission - 11/16/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art
A woman who took a picture of a threat made against her and posted it on her Facebook page has been banned from the social networking site. Icelandic women’s rights campaigner Hildur Lilliendahl Viggósdóttir received a 30-day ban after she copied the threatening message made to her through another Facebook user’s status – which was set to be visible to the public – and posted it on her own wall.
Peer's revenge over Twitter slurs: McAlpine will sue internet gossips as BBC pays him £185,000 damages following Newsnight report - 11/16/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
Lord McAlpine is taking landmark legal action against internet gossips who falsely branded him a paedophile. Lawyers for the Tory peer warned Twitter users ‘we know who you are’ and urged them to come forward voluntarily or face being pursued through the courts.
Police grapple with internet troll epidemic as convictions for posting online abuse soar by 150% in just four years - 11/15/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
The number of internet trolls convicted in court of bullying online has soared by more than 150 per cent in just four years. New figures show more than 1,200 people last year were convicted of sending offensive, obscene or threatening electronic messages - up from just 498 in 2007. After several high profile cases involving celebrities and families grieving for loved ones being targeted on Twitter, Facebook and chatrooms, police have become more willing to use the full force of the law.
Vodafone call centre worker suspended over claims he “stalked” customer on Facebook - 11/14/12
http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2012/11/1
A VODAFONE call centre worker has been suspended following claims he “stalked” a Scots customer on Facebook. Cheryl Mcgarrigle phoned the mobile network last month to set up a direct debit and was redirected to an Egyptian call centre. The 23-year-old from Glasgow said she was immediately asked for her shoe size by the “creepy” man who answered the phone.
My online dating terror: Spurned internet lover slashed my horse and plotted to torture me - 11/14/12
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-l
When Nathalie Kelderman signed up to an online dating site she was looking for love, romance and even marriage. And with as many as one in five lasting relationships now beginning online, she thought there was little to be worried about. But Nathalie was to learn the hard way that what can look like a match made in heaven on screen, can just as quickly turn into a horrific nightmare.
Drunk Man Accused of Threatening Family Members of an FBI Agent - 11/14/12
http://www.ticklethewire.com/2012/1
There’s an old, time-tested rule: Don’t make phone calls while you’re really inebriated. Peter Joseph Persico apparently couldn’t help himself at a Florida bar when he called the FBI office in Albany and unleashed a torrent of profanity directed at an agent, the Albany Times Union reports.
Conman jailed for 16 months for selling illegal tooth-whitening gel online made with 100 TIMES safe level of cleaning chemicals - 11/14/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
A conman who sold potentially dangerous tooth-whitening gel which contained up to 100 times the legal level of cleaning chemical hydrogen peroxide has been jailed for 16 months.Barrington Armstrong-Thorpe, 68, was found guilty of eight consumer protection offences after a judge told him he had 'lied' his way through a week-long trial.
Man sentenced to nine months in jail for criminally harassing ex-girlfriend - 11/13/12
http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/sente
When a city man found out his girlfriend wanted to end their 2 1/2-year relationship because she thought he was cheating on her, he launched into what the judge called a series of abusive and threatening phone calls, texts, e-mails and other “vile” communications over a 21-month period. The victim believed her boyfriend launched the attack, including the posting on an Internet porn site of a cell phone video he had earlier taken of them having sex, said provincial court Judge Allan Fradsham, as an attempt at “manipulating” her to be with him.
'Holby City's Rosie Marcel: 'Stalker made me consider suicide' - 11/13/12
http://www.digitalspy.com/celebrit
Rosie Marcel, star of BBC One's Holby City, has opened up about her stalking ordeal for the first time. The actress, who plays surgeon Jac Naylor in the hospital drama, admitted that she was "on the edge of a nervous breakdown" and even considered committing suicide. 21-year-old Sarah Rumbelow - who has ADHD and Asperger's syndrome - was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail last month after a court heard that she sent Marcel physically and sexually threatening emails, texts and tweets.
Man arrested after alleged attempt to hack into bank account of father shot dead in French Alps - 11/12/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
A Nigerian man has been arrested on suspicion of trying to get into the bank accounts of a British engineer murdered in the Alps alongside family members. Abiodun David John, 33, is said to have tried to access money belonging to Saad Al-Hilli, 50, who was shot dead close to Lake Annecy, in eastern France, on September 5. The wife and mother-in-law of Mr Al-Hilli, of Claygate, Surrey, died alongside side him, while a French cyclist was gunned down nearby.
Teenager is arrested for burning a poppy on Facebook: Family brand him 'idiotic' but say police went too far - 11/12/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
A teenager who drunkenly posted a picture of himself burning a poppy on Facebook was in police custody last night. Officers arrested Linford House after they received a complaint about the image that was published in the early hours of Remembrance Sunday. When police called at his parents’ home that evening, the 19-year-old had already taken down the image on a friend’s advice..
'Bottoms up': What Home Office interpreter said after dropping sleeping pill into college student's coffee and raping her as she slept - 11/12/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
A ‘conniving and dangerous’ Home Office interpreter has been jailed for nine years after drugging a 24-year-old college student and raping her at her home while she was asleep. Tang Ge, 38, of Irlam, Greater Manchester, had met the unidentified woman after putting an advert on an online community forum looking for someone to do domestic chores, police said.
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