How many can you find using google?

How many news stories from legitimate sources can you find using goole which state th

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    Votes: 6 31.6%
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    Votes: 1 5.3%
  • greater than 10

    Votes: 3 15.8%

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Slinky Bender

The All Powerful Moderator
#1
How many news stories from legitimate sources can you find using google.com which state that police used internet forums as sources for a bust?

(Please vote and post links for your sights found)
 
#9
My search came up with the following. Only one is really on point in my opinion, therefore my vote is 1. I didn't read through all of the search results. Just the first coupla pages. Search terms were "prostitution arrests internet"

http://www.mv-voice.com/morgue/2000/2000_06_09.prost690.html
This link is a story that describes a bust involving the police booking an appointment on the internet but what precipitated the investigation was complaints from neighbors.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001812395_vice11m0.html
This is a link to a story in which police actually built their case with info from a website. But again the initial reason for the investigation was a complaint from and “ex-boyfriend”

http://www.startribune.com/stories/467/4666044.html
This one seems pretty much on point. Those Minneapolis cops are pretty wiley.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascitystar/news/6119112.htm?1c
This one involves a phony website set up by police (entrapment?)

http://www.avnonline.com/issues/200106/newsarchive/060101_1.shtml
Here’s one that describes how the internet actually may have prevented some arrests.
 
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Cloud Nine

I had to open my big mouth.......
#11
JL will just love this quote from that article:

State police in Greensburg began investigating in September after troopers discovered Internet bulletin board postings, apparently from customers, who described the various sex acts available at the businesses, as well as prices and "code words" used to refer to the various acts.
 
#14
Originally posted by Cloud Nine
State police in Greensburg began investigating in September after troopers discovered Internet bulletin board postings, apparently from customers, who described the various sex acts available at the businesses, as well as prices and "code words" used to refer to the various acts.
Their problem was that they spelled out the prices instead of using the famous pricing code. If they'd have done that, the police never would have figured out the code words.
 

pjorourke

Thinks he's Caesar's Wife
#15
Originally posted by justlooking
Their problem was that they spelled out the prices instead of using the famous pricing code. If they'd have done that, the police never would have figured out the code words.
Yeah those $ codes confuse the hell out of LE.
 
#17
Originally posted by dumpy
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascitystar/news/6119112.htm?1c
This one involves a phony website set up by police (entrapment?)
No. It's only "entrapment" if they convince you to do something you wouldn't do anyway. So if, say, a police decoy approaches you on the street and sort of browbeats you into taking her to a hotel, then maybe you'd have an "entrapment" defense. But if the police just set up a phoney website that you voluntarily respond to (or if the decoy just approaches you on the street and says maybe something like, "Wanna have fun?" or "Fuck and suck?", and you take her up on it), then it's not "entrapment."
 
#19
Now this sounds like bullshit....


"But one prostitute advocate says the law allows cops to go all the way with the escort.

“The law has been upheld in several Supreme Court cases—cops can have sex with [a] prostitute and then arrest her,” said Norma Jean Almodovar, who has worked both sides of the law as a former Los Angeles police officer and a call girl."
 
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