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A body discovered by authorities Friday morning in Akron may be that of a missing Jackson Township man. The body of a man was found in a shallow grave behind Rolling Acres Mall, said FBI Special Agent Vicki Anderson. She said the identity of the man has not yet been confirmed. An ambulance carrying the body left the scene around 1:40 p.m. to the Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office. Investigators are working at a wooded area on the north side of the mall, north of Harlem Street. “We had information to go looking there,” Anderson said. Anderson declined to say...

A 32-year-old Webster man who allegedly advertised as a babysitter on Craigslist has been charged with sexually assaulting one of his charges. Steven P. Knox is free on $30,000 bond after being arrested Thursday on a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child under the age of 14. According to court records, a 6-year-old girl told investigators that Knox, whom she knew as her babysitter, put his finger in her private area four times. The girl said Knox had put "ice" on his finger and that the penetration had burned. The assault allegedly took place at Knox's home on...

Authorities in Ohio have implicated a high school junior in the death of a Florida man whose body was found in a shallow grave after he responded to a bogus Craigslist ad for a job on a cattle farm. The Florida man's death came to light after police were contacted Nov. 6 by a South Carolina man who answered the same fake ad. The man told police that he had been shot, but escaped by running away through the woods, according to Noble County Sheriff Stephen Hannum. The crimes occurred in a remote area outside Caldwell in southeastern Ohio, about...

A 25-year-old student who had her bike stolen turned the tables on the thief after finding it posted up for sale on Craigslist. Kathryn Lucas from Colorado used the website to track down her stolen bike and posed as an interested buyer before stealing it back after going on a 'test-ride'. ... After filing a police report, she began searching Craigslist to see if the thief was trying to sell the bike. Sure enough, Miss Lucas spotted a posting with a photo of her bike after recognising her bike’s red handle-bar tape and her water bottle holder. She responded to...

I get this strange feeling that the people in the White House think this is brilliant. Prod. & Vid. wanted for OWS reporting Calling all videographers and producers who want to spread the word about the Occupy Wall Street movement. A Truthdig.com reporter seeks to chart the events that led to the collapse of the United States over the last 30 years and determine what the 99% can do about it. The project involves a series of interviews with experts on key political and economic issues and will be centered in New York City. Here is a link to a...

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If I sell online, can I get scammed if they pay me thru Paypal?

URGENT! TELEPROMPTER + OPERATOR NEEDED (Los Angeles) Date: 2011-09-05, 10:04PM PDT Reply to: job-3g2uj-2584127854@craigslist.org Urgently seeking teleprompter and operator for press conference at 2 PM on September 6, 2011. Please only serious inquires reply immediately! * Location: Los Angeles * Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster. * Please, no phone calls about this job! * Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- Police said a man who told Channel 2 Action News that he was a robbery victim is actually the robber. DeKalb County police arrested Mahad Said and charged him with robbery one day after Said claimed a gunman robbed him. The real victim, Hashim Fannin, told Channel 2's Tom Jones that Said is one dumb criminal. "Since he went out and made this report, and went on television and all of that, that made it pretty easy to track him down," Fannin said. Said had said that a man he met on Craigslist tried to rob...

BRADENTON - The self-employed operator of a home day care center in Sarasota is accused of placing a Craigslist ad in which she claimed to be her husband's ex-wife soliciting sex with strangers. The falsified ad led the victim to receive numerous phone calls, text messages and home visits from male strangers, frightening her and making her concerned about her children's safety, according to a police report.

The Federal Trade Commission has approved a controversial firm which scours social media sites to check on job applicants. It means anything you've ever said in public on sites including Facebook, Twitter and even Craigslist could be seen by your would-be employer. The Washington-based commission has ruled the firm, Social Intelligence Corporation, complies with the Fair Credit Reporting Act - even though it keeps the results of its searches on file for seven years.

What kind of a guy actually places an ad on Craigslist seeking to purchase marijuana?

SAN DIEGO – An 18-year-old college student died from a bullet to his chest as he chased three teens who robbed him and his girlfriend when he was buying a computer advertised on Craigslist for $600, a prosecutor said Friday...

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – Three dozen Crips street gang members and two motel owners have been indicted for running a prostitution ring that targeted underage girls through social networking sites including MySpace, Craigslist, Twitter and Facebook, prosecutors said on Monday. The U.S. District Court indictment, unsealed on Monday, alleges that several former rival factions of the gang worked together to recruit new prostitutes by targeting underage girls from broken homes. Writing letters from prison as well as establishing contact using MySpace, Twitter and Facebook, the gang members gained control over the girls and then advertised them using Craigslist and Backpage.com,...

Seeking One Gorgeous Female For Photo Opportunity (downtown / civic / van ness) Date: 2011-04-16, 11:24AM PDT Reply to: gigs-gqtxs-2329039352@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?] US President Barrack Obama will be visiting San Francisco this Wednesday through Thursday. I will be attending a private dinner for him with 150 high profile people. My date had an unexpected emergency and will be out of town. Anyone care to join me? This is a black-tie affair, so if you don't have formal attire, I'll take you shopping,,,pronto! Reply with: Name Phone Number Age Height and Weight Dress Size and Shoe Size Include...

One of the latest four sets of remains found on a Long Island beach linked to the Craigslist Ripper belongs to a baby or child - and not a grown woman, it was revealed today. The remains were found last week among four sets of bodies several miles away from where the bodies of four prostitutes were located in December. But the victim may not be related to the other New York murders as a young person’s body ‘would not fit a serial killer’s pattern’, according to law enforcement sources.

America’s self-described toughest sheriff has issued a warning to the CEO of Craigslist saying the popular Internet website is providing a “mechanism to facilitate criminal activity.” Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s warning to Jim Buckmaster follows the arrest last month in Arizona by Maricopa County Sheriff's Office detectives of two men — one a middle school teacher and the other a handyman — on charges of conspiracy to commit bestiality. Sheriff Arpaio said an undercover investigation by his office began after detectives became aware that persons in the Phoenix area were using Craigslist to engage in illegal acts with animals. Detectives set...

Craigslist has become a "cesspool of crime" and has been linked to 20 murders in the past three and a half years, according to a research firm commissioned by a competitor. A report released Thursday by AIM Group claims 330 crimes have been linked by law enforcement to the site, which allows users to post free online classified ads. Among those are the victims of the so-called "Craigslist serial killer" that has recently been targeting prostitutes on Long Island, N.Y. "Sadly, Craigslist has become a cesspool of crime," said AIM Group founder Peter Zollman. Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster responded on...