On April 3, 2015, the Great Falls (MT)/Cascade County Crimestoppers posted the mug shots of one Levi Charles Reardon on their Facebook page. Reardon was wanted on charges of felony forgery and theft. The next day, the Crimestoppers posted an amusing update: Just under three weeks later, Reardon was arrested and appeared in court on…
The motto of the Providence, RI police department is “Semper Vigilans,” which translates as “always watchful,” or “always on watch.” It’s a encouraging slogan for the city’s police department, but apparently one that doesn’t apply to the city’s residents. Earlier this month, The Providence Journal reported on allegations by John Prince that city police officers…
A 27-year-old single mom gained unwanted national attention this week when a couple of impulsive Facebook posts cost her a new job before she even started working. Kaitlyn Walls, a resident of The Colony, Texas (a suburb north of Dallas), landed a position at a daycare center. Before heading off to her first day, she…
A tweet by an Edmonton social services agency set off a caustic Twitter exchange with the Edmonton Police Department, leading to the discipline of an unidentified officer. On Tuesday, the Twitter account for the Inner City Frontline Workers of Edmonton (@InnerCityYEG) responded to the planned hiring of 49 additional Edmonton police officers: Please no more…
[Updated] A 15-year veteran on the Vermont State Police is under investigation for comments that he made on his personal Facebook account, according to reports by local television stations WCAX and WPTZ. The department was alerted to the contents of Corporal Jon Graham’s Facebook feed after a concerned citizen re-posted various comments by Cpl. Graham…
On Sunday, the LA Times reported, police in Napa, California arrested Julian Vargas, 29, on charges “of transmitting harmful material with intent to seduce a minor, as well as contacting a minor with intent to send harmful material.” The charges stemmed from a report by a 16-year-old female junior varsity soccer player, who told police…
The parents of a 12-year-old girl at the South Allegheny Middle School in McKeesport, PA discovered a series of disturbing texts on their daughter’s cell phone. The sender turned out to be 23-year-old Cole McLaughlin, a first-year social studies teacher at the school. According to the criminal complaint filed in the case, McLaughlin wrote to…
A teacher at the K-12 Mojave River Academy in Palm Springs was arrested April 21 and charged with a variety of sexual offenses against a minor, including “oral copulation with a person under 18, sodomy with a person under 18, lewd and lascivious acts with a child and sexual penetration involving a child under 18.”…
A first-year teacher at Danbury High School in Connecticut was arrested Monday on charges of second-degree sexual assault and providing alcohol to a minor. Ironically, the relationship between Kayla Mooney, 24, and a male student was uncovered in February after Mooney complained to school officials that she was being harassed by the boy’s girlfriend. During…
In a study of 370 parents released on April 25, 2015, more than one-third reported that their child was less than 12 months old when he or she began scrolling or manipulating a touch screen. In addition, over half said that their infants began watching “television” shows on a mobile device before turning 1. By…
