Myspace Account Leads to Marijuana Busts

FREEDOM OF SPEECH UNDER ATTACK AS LOCAL POLICE USE NEW TOOL IN SEARCH FOR “ILLEGAL ACTIVITY” PROMOTING THE LOCAL CULTURE COULD GET YOU BUSTED!-

“AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL DO ANYTHING POSSIBLE TO SQUASH THE MARIJUANA CULTURE”

THE REALITY IS ITA LOCAL CULTURE IT IS,

AND ITS HERE TO STAY!

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“When drug enforcement agents began investigating Ryan Robletto, they looked him up on MySpace.

The first thing they reportedly found was a photograph of Robletto standing in a room, surrounded by marijuana plants. His name — viewable to anyone with a MySpace account — was “1cashcrop,” and he declared his heroes are, “The Farmers from Humboldt who give to the people …”

On Tuesday, the 29-year-old Robletto was one of 15 suspects arrested in a countywide raid conducted by Humboldt County Drug Task Force agents investigating an alleged commercial marijuana growing ring.

And, according to drug task force Commander Jack Nelsen, those photos will likely be used as evidence against him in court.

Nelsen, who led the Tuesday investigation, said although agents gathered evidence from a number of sources leading to the arrest, the online profile gave agents an extraordinary view into their suspect’s personal life.

MySpace, Nelsen said, “is just a piece of the puzzle. It confirms he is involved, to some degree, in the cultivation of marijuana.”

Online social networking sites provide users a place to create a social resume — allowing them to list their favorite music and movies, post photographs, share video clips and send messages to friends and strangers.

With the growth in popularity of sites like MySpace, Facebook and Craigslist — which according to

its own statistics receives around10 billion page views every month — law enforcement has increasingly used the Internet as a tool to peer into the lives of victims and suspected criminals.”It’s a trend. We are going to be seeing this in more and more cases,” said Deputy District Attorney Allan Dollison. “If I have a case, I’m going to inquire about the existence of a MySpace page and see if there’s anything there.”

Dollison said he has not used evidence gathered on a social networking Web site in any of his cases so far, but he knows local law enforcement agencies have been using the net to check up on criminal activity.”

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