NJ- Sex offenders arrested for using MySpace

5-16-2008 New Jersey

The State Police today arrested three registered sex offenders for violating their parole by accessing MySpace and Facebook despite a law that went into effect this January prohibiting their use of such Internet sites.

Stanton Ulmer, 32, of Neptune Township, Felice Black, 24, of Paterson, and Pietro Parisi, 34, of Westville, were arrested in early morning raids. Detectives also seized computers, a webcam, and a cell phone.

The State Police said the three men had posted profiles on MySpace and Facebook under their own names. Troopers in the digital technology investigations unit posed as children on those sites and engaged the three in conversations.

--I wonder what the conversation was, possibly:
TROOPER "Hi"
PAROLEE "Hi"
TROOPER "I'm 13, what do you ...."
PAROLEE Silence, no response...
Yup, thats a conversation..

"We're not alleging at this time they were actively engaged in any kind of suspicious or illicit actively," said Lt. Keith Halton, assistant bureau chief of the Computer Crimes and High Tech Surveillance Bureau. "We're going after them because they were engaged on these social networking sites."

Each was charged with violating the provisions of parole supervision and released on their own recognizance pending court appearances. ..more.. by Rick Hepp/The Star-Ledger