Monthly Archive for September, 2010

From the Boo-Hoo files: Socastee shooter was bullied

Published on September 30, 2010 by Trench Reynolds in Uncategorized. 3 Comments Tags: , , , .

Attorney: Socastee High shooting suspect was bullied:

It was inevitable really.

Anyway the attorney for the 14-year-old gunman from Socastee High School says that his client was bullied half his life. According to reports that will play a prominent role in the defense of the still unnamed teen who fired a gun at school resource officer Erik Karney. Bullying doesn’t explain why he shot at a school resource officer but I digress.

Prosecutors are trying to have the teen tried as an adult but the teen’s lawyer is whining about that as well.

“I’ve got a client who is a little boy who has some severe emotional mental issues. We’re going to do everything we can to get him the help he needs,” Long said.

If you mean he was inches away from being a murderer then yes, he has issues.

Again, idiots like this who think a gun will solve a bullying problem, real or imagined, take the school’s attention away from bullying and place it on potential murderers. You’re only going to make things worse for the victims of bullying by either justifying or repeating his actions. Besides if you think you’re being bullied now just wait until you get to jail.

Coast Guardsman accused of MySpace rape

Published on September 30, 2010 by Trench Reynolds in MySpace and Predators. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Zontevias Lewis

Alabama man accused of rape at Norfolk hotel:

AL man charged in Norfolk rape:

Coast Guard member arrested for rape and sodomy in Norfolk:

20-year-old Zontevias Lewis is a member of the Coast Guard Reserves who was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia. The Alabama native was arrested for the alleged rape of an 18-year-old girl he met over MySpace. The victim agreed to ‘ride around’ with Lewis. After picking her up police say Lewis took her to a hotel and raped her. Lewis led police on a brief chase before crashing the car he was driving.

Does the Coast Guard use yardarms? If they do this scumbag should be hung from one.

Philly man admits to slashing throat of craigslist escort

Published on September 29, 2010 by Trench Reynolds in Craigslist and Predators. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Joseph C. Vignola Jr.

Joseph Vignola Jr. admits attacking woman he met on Craigslist:

Angry looking little bastard isn’t he?

Anyway this is one of those stories that I don’t know how the hell I missed it when it happened. Back in 2008 Philadelphia police arrested Joseph C. Vignola Jr. for slashing the throat of an 18-year-old woman that he ‘met’ on the then erotic services section of craigslist.

The pair met at a hotel where they had sex then argued about something (money?) and Vignola punched her in the throat, sat on top of her until she passed out then slit her throat. And in true GTA style he took the money that he gave her.

To make matters worse Vignola tried blaming the assault on a ‘light skinned black man’ that supposedly broke in while they were having sex.

Last week the now 21-year-old son of a former Philly city councilman pleaded guilty to the brutal assault. He’s looking at 30 years but his equally slimy lawyer is trying to get him 4 1/2-7.

Vignola should be touted as the poster boy of the kind of scum that used to troll the erotic services and adult services section and that probably still trolls the casual encounters section and currently trolling the erotic services sections outside the US. A guy like this is also probably trolling the adult sections of backpage as well.

No monitoring means the inmates are running the asylum and this guy is the prototype.

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Bombs confirmed at Socastee

Published on September 28, 2010 by Trench Reynolds in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Second Socastee High student facing charges; Accused shooter could face terrorism charge:

The article that I linked to is about a teen from Socastee High School that was arrested for posting a threat on a social networking site.l He’s been released to the custody of his parents but he’s not my main focus on the article.

My main focus is that the article confirms there were bombs at Socastee that allegedly belonged to the shooter. Yeah, I know this is old news, so sue me, I’m behind.

Anyway the article says that police found two pipe bombs in his book bag and that he was wearing his book bag at the time of the shooting. It’s a good thing the shooter was such a lousy shot or there may have been a larger human toll.

Mesa ex-con arrested for Facebook threats

Published on September 28, 2010 by Trench Reynolds in Criminals and Facebook. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Charles Piombo

Facebook Threats Land Mesa Man in Jail:

Police: Man used Facebook to threaten Mesa officer:

I normally don’t post ‘guy gets arrested for Facebook threat’ stories because there is too many of them. However the subject of this post took that and made it into an art form.

Police in Mesa, Arizona arrested 25-year-old Charles Piombo for posting threats on Facebook against his neighbor and a Mesa police officer that he named specifically.

Police say that he was angry with the neighbor for helping police with a runaway investigation and considered her a snitch. As far as I can tell Piombo wasn’t even a part of that investigation. Some of the threats he was said to have posted towards his neighbor were “Your days are slim,” “I can’t wait till you are gone,” and “No matter what prepare to die.”

He is also said to make a threat against a Mesa police officer by name that said “If you got a vest on no worries I’m aiming for brains.” Charming.

To make matters even worse this joker is collecting your tax money since he’s been on disability for the past 5 years for an unspecified mental illness. It seems that he may be aware of his illness considering that some of his threats allegedly included that he wouldn’t get any time if he carried out his threats because of his illness.

I’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure that would actually negate an insanity defense.

Piombo previously did time for burglary and various drug offenses.

Minn. craigslist and backpage trafficker convicted

Published on September 28, 2010 by Trench Reynolds in Backpage, Craigslist and Prostitution and Human Trafficking. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Burnsville man guilty of using girl, 16, for prostitution:

Just because craigslist has shut down the adult services in the US for now doesn’t mean the aftermath still isn’t felt.

For example there is 38-year-old Arthur J. Chappell. He’s an ex-con that was convicted recently for trafficking and prostituting a 16-year-old girl on both Backpage and craigslist in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. Chappell not only pimped the girl out but he sexually assaulted her as well.

Chappell is looking at a lifetime max. I pray he gets every day of that.

Craigslist may be changing their ways in the US but they still have erotic services in the rest of the world and they have much penance still to go. Backpage is just scum.

UPDATE 10/30/2012: Chappell was retried due to faulty jury instruction and was convicted again.

Seattle Juggalo gets ready to go to trial

Published on September 28, 2010 by Trench Reynolds in Juggalos. 7 Comments Tags: , , , .

Court case progresses in alleged ‘Juggalo’ attack:

It seems that we have another Juggalo getting ready to go up the river. This time it’s 25-year-old Steven D. Bauder from the Seattle area. Bauder and an accomplice, 22-year-old Marcus D. Dennis, are accused in the 2008 murder of 25-year-old Noel Lopez in a beating that was said to have taken hours.

The motive behind the crime seems to be that Bauder didn’t seem to care for the way that Lopez was treating his 15-year-old ‘street sister’ whatever the hell that means. So Bauder and Dennis took him to a construction site where they beat Lopez to death.

Bauder has bought into the gimmick so much he allegedly considers himself a ‘street enforcer’.

Again, I am not saying that all Juggalos are criminals but there seems to be a large number of you that believe the gimmick a bit too strongly. And it’s not the music that makes assclowns like Bauder into psychopaths. I’m sure he already was one.

Florida man moves to Mich. to be with 14-year-old girl

Published on September 28, 2010 by Trench Reynolds in MySpace and Predators. 6 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Florida man who met Michigan girl on MySpace faces sex charges:

Police in St. Johns, Michigan arrested one 25-year-old Danny Dewayne Waller of Elkton, Florida. He’s been charged with various criminal sexual conduct and enticing/coercing a juvenile over the computer charges.

Not a lot of detail on this story but what is known is that Waller is alleged to have met a 14-year-old girl from the St. Johns area on MySpace before moving from Florida to be with the now 15-year-old girl. With the enticing and sexual conduct charges I’m guessing the relationship was not platonic.

For someone to move to be with underage girl they must have more than serious problems. And how in the hell did he think that he would ever be able to keep that ‘relationship’ a secret?

Creepers are stupid.

Woman brought kids to backpage sting

Published on September 28, 2010 by Trench Reynolds in Backpage and Prostitution and Human Trafficking. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Parker County sting operation nets prostitution arrests:

Police in Parker County, Texas ran a prostitution sting back in August using the Village Voice Media owned backpage.com. In the sting they netted six people for various offenses related to prostitution.

One of the women arrested on prostitution charges allegedly had her 1-year-old child and 10-month-child with her when she went to meet her ‘client’ which turned out to be the police.

That should be something that you’re real proud of backpage. Facilitating the meetings between johns, prostitutes and their kids.

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More news on Socastee shooting

Published on September 23, 2010 by Trench Reynolds in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Just some additional news tidbits on the Socastee High School shooting.

First up is that the Horry County prosecutor is wanting to charge the 14-year-old shooter with attempted murder. No word yet if he’ll be charged as adult. Keep your fingers crossed that he will.

Next up is that a 2nd student of Socastee High School has been questioned about the attack. No charges were brought against that student and the student was released to his parents’ custody.