The Associated Press is reporting that Attorneys General from eight states are requesting that MySpace.com turn over data on registered sex offenders that use the social networking site.

The request is for the names of registered sex offenders who use the site and the location where they live.

You can read the full story at AGs seek sex offender data from MySpace.

The TechCrunch blog is reporting on the use of the virtual social networking SecondLife.com by FBI agents to review the online gaming and casinos found in the Second Life virtual world.

From the post –

The FBI has visited Linden Lab and their Second Life casinos in order to figure out just what that giant teddy bear — really a Japanese exchange student — and the fat man in Spokane who looks like a Suicide Girl and calls himself Wendy Wild are doing over at the roulette table.

Source: G-Men Visit Second Life Casinos, Stay for the Brothels.

According to this Dec. 8 article in the Guardian Unlimited, organized criminal gangs are recruiting undergraduate college students for future corporate criminal activities by offering to pay for their college tuition and expenses.

From the article –

Organised gangs are recruiting the next generation of internet criminals by approaching undergraduates on university campuses.

In some cases gangs offer to finance undergraduates’ studies and plant them as sleepers within target businesses, according to a report on cybercrime which draws on intelligence from the FBI and British and European hi-tech crime units.

Source: Internet criminals signing up students as ‘sleepers’

The AP is reporting this weird bit of law enforcement news. A thief tried to rob a gas station with a uniformed police officer waiting in line.

From the article –

SHREVEPORT, La. — A masked gunman walked into a gas station and demanded money, apparently not noticing that the line at the counter included a uniformed police officer.

L.J. Scott, a member of the Police Department’s armed robbery task force, told the would-be robber to put his own hands up.

Scott took the handgun and arrested Derek Pierson Jr., 21, of Stockton, Calif., police department spokeswoman Kacee Hargrave said.

Hargrave said Pierson was booked into the city jail on a charge of armed robbery with a firearm.

Wired News is reporting on a California law that will track convicted sex offenders for life via a GPS system attached to ankle bracelets.

From the article –

Just a few years ago, satellite tracking of convicts was a newfangled alternative to house arrest. Now, the number of American ex-offenders tracked through GPS-equipped ankle bracelets will likely triple to more than 30,000, thanks to the passage of a California ballot measure.

California’s Proposition 83, which easily passed Tuesday by a margin of 70 percent to 30 percent, requires many convicted sex offenders to be monitored by GPS for life. Only those who committed felonies and served time in prison will be affected.

Source: Attack of the Perv Trackers