Monthly Archive for April, 2009

craigslist crime blotter 4/30/09 – Stupid question edition

Woman gets community service for Craigslist revenge:

Kari A. Heath of Strum, Wisc., who I first posted about here was sentenced to community service for placing an ad on craigslist that said her ex-boyfriend wanted men to call him at home and work and talk dirty to him. You don’t hear about those kind of ads in the newspaper personals.

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Police shut down illegal Delray Beach massage parlor, arrest two advertising on Craigslist:

Police in Delray Beach, Florida shut down the Marina Wellness Center which was just a massage parlor advertising on craigslist. Those arrested were Luz Silva, 46, and Rosa Pineda, 30. The thing is they advertised not under erotic services but in the therapeutic services section. Now why didn’t craigslist self policing community flag the ad? Well, from what I’ve been told the illegitimate massage parlors have a ‘flag army’ that flags the ads of the legitimate massage places. It’s funny how a policy intended to get rid of illegal activity just helps it prosper.

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Is Craigslist ‘erotic services’ tab just a cover for hookers?:

Yes. Yes it is.

Buckmaster responds to Illinois AG

Meeting IL AG Madigan:

craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster has posted on the official craigslist blog that he is looking forward to meeting with Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.

He says he’s looking forward to discussing the progress made since their joint statement last November.

What progress? Are you that delusional Jim? You can’t say craigslist has regressed in criminal prevention either because it doesn’t do anything worthwhile to prevent criminal activity on its site.

He reminds me of Baghdad Bob saying there were no American troops in Baghdad as the tanks rolled in.

Markoff off of suicide watch

Source: 16 Pairs of Women’s Underwear Found in Home of Alleged ‘Craigslist Killer’:

Basically there’s really only two worthwhile pieces of information from this article. The first is as I mentioned in the headline Philip Markoff has been taken off of suicide watch but he’s still wearing the paper clothes. The second piece of information is that Markoff told his family to forget about him because more information is going to come out. What that information may be is anyone’s guess.

However this allows me to address something. I am not going to post the more salacious and gossipy parts of this story. I personally could give a rat’s ass if his fiance is going to call off the marriage or not. I’m only interested in seeing justice served for the death of Julissa Brisman.

San Antonio school shooting plot thwarted

Cops say a local Columbine foiled:

That cheery individual is 22-year-old Jorge L. Alfaro of San Antonio, Texas. He was arrested on Monday for planning to shoot up Harlandale High School. The school he used to attend.

This was no mere joke either. Alfaro was leaving his house with two shotguns, three handguns, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and body armor. He allegedly told his mother he was going to shoot up his former high school for the way they treated him. For the sake of argument let’s say he graduated at the the age of 18. That would mean he graduated from high school in 2005. 4 years ago.

Luckily his mom convinced him to seek mental help and while he was at the hospital she called police. Go mom.

Getting back to Alfaro himself it seems that his middle initial stands for loser. He claims that he was beaten up and harassed in school and that he had no friends. He worked most recently at a fast food joint. I bet he cooked the fries.

And yes he is in fact a mutant.

Authorities said they also found a notebook filled with detailed plans and notes about the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech University.


At least he picked an original date. He wanted to commit the shootings Monday and then kill himself because that was his birthday.

Four years, possibly, after leaving high school and this assclown wanted to go back and shoot the place up when more than likely anybody he went to school with wasn’t even there anymore.

The stupidity of these chuds never fails to amaze me.

I’ll have more on Alfaro as details are released.

Orlando MySpace rape

Nevermind, she recanted her story. I guess MySpace crime really is on the decline.

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ORIGINAL POST

Woman says man she met on MySpace raped her:

We don’t spend as much time together as we used to. It’s not for the lack of will to write. Honestly I think social website related crime is dwindling. Nothing would make me happier than to stop posting stories about MySpace related crimes.

Unfortunately even though these kinds of crimes are on their way down they still rear its ugly head. For example take this story out of Orlando, Florida.

A 21-year-old woman met a 25-year-old guy over MySpace. Apparently they must have hit it off because they began talking by phone and e-mail and she eventually went over to his house. She thought they were going somewhere else after a brief stop at his house. Instead he allegedly raped her in his home.

Guys and ladies be careful when meeting someone from the net for the first time. Always meet in public and always take a friend with you. Let other people know where you’re going too. YOu can’t be too careful. I don’t want to have to write about you.

craigslist escort turned paralegal says stay off craigslist

Police, Former Prostitute Urge Sex Workers: Stay Off Craigslist:

This is a great story from Channel 11 in New York City about a former craigslist hooker named Sasha who has not only turned her life around but is now urging sex workers to stop using craigslist.

Sasha used craigslist in 2005 to advertise her services but when she went to meet her client the guy turned out to be a junkie who pistol whipped her repeatedly and stole $1700 from her. The damage to her nose ended up costing her thousands of dollars to repair.

Now she’s a paralegal and has this advice for the working girls….

She says her warning is worth it if even one sex worker stays off the anonymous site. “If you want to make money go and get a job. Nobody’s going to protect you. If you have a pimp, he’s not going to protect you. . . . This is your life. You have to be proud of your life. “


Words to live by.

Tales from the craigslist: Squatting in an LA whorehouse

I received the following e-mail from someone who wishes to remain anonymous. I’m leaving the alleged scammers name unchanged because I would almost guarantee it’s an alias. Anyway on to the e-mail…

Last year when I was living in SoCal, I rented a room from Robert Larry Biel via craigslist LA and subsequently and unwittingly became a squatter in a home he did not own but had lived in for several months, charging people $500/month rent in 3 different rooms; and never paid the home owner a penny of it. He was also prostituting his girlfriend and at least one of the roomates via craigslist as well.

2 days after I moved in, he backed a truck up to the front door and moved himself and his prostitute out of the house. That was a Sunday.

On Monday night, he came back and broke into the power box at the back of the house, shut off the power and padlocked the box. We had to call the power company to come out at midnight to turn the power back on.

On Tuesday I had the locks changed and no sooner had I left for work; he came back to the house with his prostitute and they broke into the house via a doorwall and threw the other roommates things out on the front lawn, put the doorwall back and left.

Later that day THREE different people came to the house saying they had just given him $1000 to move into the house that day. The 3rd person actually showed up WITH this guy as the homeowner, 2 room mates AND the LAPD stood in the front yard. Even the cops didn’t try to detain him.

I swear I couldn’t make this up!!!

That’s when I decided to leave LA and just move on, but the guy is a bad person and you should know about it.

After I left LA, I remembered I had read a warning about him on craigslist written by some one he had ripped off and HIS ad was flagged and then blocked.

Craigslist should take the moral high ground and stop allowing the kinds of postings that are allowed at this time.

I guess that’s it.I never pressed charges because I left LA.

Thanks for reading about my adventure in LA-LA land!!! People really are different in SoCal!!!!


Actually most of the people I met in SoCal were actually nice but I know what you mean. If you’ve had an experience like this with Mr. Biel, if that is his real name, feel free to post it in the comments.

MISSING: Amber Dubois

I received the following e-mail from a man named Rob who is asking not only my assistance but also the public’s assistance in trying to help find missing 14-year-old Amber Dubois. Here is Rob’s e-mail…

I am a letter carrier in Escondido CA. I am helping with the search for Amber Dubois who went missing in Escondido on 2/13/09. There are several organizations looking for her in San Diego County.

I am reaching out to your organization because I want to get the word out about some new information regarding Amber’s disappearance. I’m sure you are sick and tired of this trend of missing teens. We need people to report underage prostitution in San Diego and San Bernardino County so we can flush Amber Dubois out if indeed this is the case. I’ve asked the Diocese of San Diego for help and asked them to report any underage prostitution in the parishes, etc. and they sent me an email stating they don’t get involved in that because it is a law enforcement issue.

It sounds like you have great experience in these situations regarding exploited youth on Craigslist and probably have several contacts and law enforcement friends that you can send this email to.

There have been several arrests made in this area regarding Craigslist prostitution and there is a chance that is what happened to Amber.

There are plenty of missing girls in CA. and some of the cases could be related.

I’ve went as far to email the Attorney General outlining my concerns and asking why brothels and other places of prostitution are not being raided especially when it is clear the girls and boys are underage. Needless to say I did not hear back.

I also asked why they don’t shut down the Craigslist Erotic Services site in California. Even went as far as to ask him to bring suit against them in the names of the little girls who were returned home..no answer.

What I wanted to ask is if you could visit Amber’s website at www.bringamberhome.com and go to the flyer page. There you will find the flyer with her information and info regarding a $60,000 reward. I want to know if it is possible to print off a few flyers and hang them up and brief your members of the situation and also send an email to all your loyal contacts in a least CA and AZ and ask them for help as well. If you can’t print out the flyers, email me back with the amount of flyers that your organization would need and I will forward the email to the command center and have them mailed out to you asap. Also there are new clues just released

regarding a suspicious vehicle. You can find the information here: http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=amber+dubois

This seems like a rather easy way to have several professional people looking for her. Letter carriers are the eyes and ears on the street but it is not enough. Your contacts are probably enormous and cover many industries and have wide ranging impact. Can you just imagine how many eyes would be looking for this little girl?? We could also use some help in searches for Amber and also people to post her story in magazines and organizational bulletins and websites. Please help us. If you wish I can put you directly

in touch with her Father Maurice Dubois and the command center.


Unfortunately Rob is correct, there has been some child prostitution activity in the San Diego area recently as it relates to craigslist. I can’t say for certain that’s what happened to Amber but I wouldn’t be surprised. The other unfortunate thing is that I don’t really have any contacts in law enforcement especially in the California and Arizona areas.

What I do have are loyal readers and other bloggers who would be more than happy to help get the word out.

To my readers if you’re in the Southern California or Arizona areas please go to the website and print out some fliers to post around town or hand out. To my blogging friends please feel free to copy this post. You don’t have to link back to me but please link to Amber’s website.

It doesn’t seem like much but hopefully through even this little action Amber can be brought home safe and sound to her family.

Identity thieves advertising on YouTube

ID thieves advertising on YouTube:

It seems that some unscrupulous types are advertising their identity theft services on YouTube. One such scoundrel claims he can get you one identity for $25 bucks and 5 for $100. They post a disclaimer on the video that says that the information is to be used for marketing purposes only. Right. That’s like the hookers on craigslist that post the disclaimer that anything that happens between two adults is legal. Just because you’re saying that doesn’t make it true.

Luckily for once YouTube seems to be pulling the videos as soon as they appear.

I wonder why they can’t do that for other illegal videos.

The Devil You Know by Heaven and Hell

If Black Sabbath had written Stairway to Heaven it would be Bible Black.



This song is an instant classic that should be in the pantheon of Dio-Era Sabbath songs like the song Heaven and Hell. Unfortunately the rest of the album doesn’t rock as hard. Oh it rocks all right and it’s a great album. It’s just not as good as other Dio Sabbath albums. Yes I think Dehumanizer is a better album. But it’s still the Dio fronted Black Sabbath so it’s automatically awesome.

Highly Recommended.

ronnie_james_dio

All hail his name m/