ARLINGTON MAN CHARGED IN THREAT
An Arlington man was arrested yesterday and charged with making threats over the Internet to bomb a town movie theater during a time when students are on winter school recess this month."The kids in Arlington will burn in hell," the suspect allegedly said in an online chat room, according to the FBI. At his arraignment in Cambridge District Court, Joseph Gedraitis, 45, pleaded not guilty to making a bomb or hijack threat with serious public alarm and threatening to...
Syphilis cases linked to chat room
Infected men trace sexual encounters to partners met online
SAN FRANCISCO - In what health officials believe is the first time a disease cluster has been traced to cyberspace, the Department of Public Health here has tracked an outbreak of syphilis cases to an America Online chat room. Six men who have contracted syphilis in the last three months have traced their last sexual encounters to partners they met through an America Online member-created chat room called San Francisco Men 4 Men (SFM4M).The case is a new development for public health...
Online Chat Room GIRL, 11, IS 'CHAT-ROOM RAPE' VICTIM
POLICE SAY 36-YEAR-OLD MAN, NOW UNDER ARREST, MET KENT VICTIM ONLINE
A 36-year-old Seattle man was arrested Saturday in the rape of an 11-year-old Kent girl he met in an online "chat room." Kent police made the arrest at 1:30 a.m. after spotting a car parked in West Fenwick Park at Reith Road and 42nd Avenue South on Kent's West Hill. The car's windows were fogged up, and the park had been closed since dusk. When officer Mike Schanbacher approached the car, he said, he saw two people sit up in the...