39-year-old Iowa mother Teri Pallat was arrested and charged with making a terroristic threat earlier this week after making threats on Facebook on behalf of her son, a 15-year-old boy with epilepsy who was being bullied at school. Pallat posted this message on her wall: “And they asked why do people shoot up schools well…

Law enforcement has stepped up its efforts in recent years to patrol social media and gather evidence on potential criminals. However, crooks don’t usually make it as easy for the cops as Rosenberg, Texas, criminal Rolando Lozano did, writing on a police department’s Facebook wall after they published his mug shot on their page asking…

One of Facebook’s greatest drawbacks is also one of its biggest strengths: it can get the word out about something far and wide in a very short period of time. That facet of the site was put to good use last week as a Tulsa woman used Facebook to catch a criminal who assaulted and…

Customers running out of restaurants without paying their bills has long been a source of ire for restaurant owners. The owners of a Reno, Nevada, restaurant decided to take the law into their own hands last week when they posted a picture of a customer who had stiffed them on a $100 bill and warned…

Law enforcement officials are turning to Facebook with greater frequency to catch criminals. From poring over photo albums for evidence to using status updates as proof in court, what you say and do on Facebook can have very real consequences. However, apparently no one told this to Matthew Oliver, 23, of New Port Richey, Florida,…

Reece Davis, a 24-year-old man from northern England, has been sentenced to two years and four months in prison after making anonymous threats against Tennessee schoolchildren in a Facebook group. Davis posted on a memorial page for a Tennessee student in February, saying that he was going to kill his father first, then went on…

Earlier this week, Cleveland county prosecutor Aaron Brockler was fired for creating a Facebook profile and posing as the fake girlfriend of an accused murderer he was prosecuting. The murder suspect, 29-year-old Damon Dunn, is accused of committing a murder at a car wash in May 2012. However, two women he had romantic relationships with…

Facebook stalking is an unfortunately prevalent online crime. However, Facebook stalking oneself is a pretty unique offense. Cheryl Nelson, a 52-year-old woman from Grand Rapids, Michigan, is charged with creating a fake Facebook profile for her ex-boyfriend and then harassing herself with it to frame her former flame. Police say that from November 2011 to…

Stories about law enforcement officials turning to Facebook for help in prosecuting criminals have cropped up with increasing regularity lately. It seems as though a lot of crooks can’t help but post pictures of their deeds on the site. A Milwaukee father allegedly dodging child support was no exception. Christopher Robinson is facing three felony…

Melissa D. Brandon, a 26-year-old Saskatoon woman, has pled guilty to impersonating Brittany Bjerland, Miss Saskatchewan, via a fake Facebook profile in order to con men out of money. Between June 2011 and January 2012, Brandon operated the page using pictures of Bjerland and telling men that she met online that she had a family…