West Hartford, CT- Not a baby-beater, but this one really got my blood boiling. On July 24, police arrested 40-year old Kathryn Arcana, a worker at the American School for the Deaf, and charged her with first-degree larceny after receiving a complaint that she had extorted money from a learning-disabled, hearing-impaired co-worker. Apparently, it all began last December when Arcana borrowed money from the co-worker after she told him she had lost her wallet. Seeing an easy mark, Arcana became greedy and decided to make the man her own  personal ATM machine. She began sending him e-mails from her Blackberry demanding money she said she needed for rent, car repairs, and and other expenses because “her cousin had stolen money from her.” [Read more...]

Lancaster, California–Damn…it takes a special kind of loser to threaten the life of a teenager’s beloved dog. It takes an even bigger loser to threaten said teen with the torture of her pooch if she doesn’t put out. Authorities believe that Alfredo Dempkey did just that. The pup in question, a toy poodle/cocker spaniel mix named Pineapple, wandered away from her home last FridayFriday reviews evening. The teen was brokenhearted. Imagine her relief when she received a phone call the next day from a man who claimed to have found her precious pooch! That relief quickly faded to fear and disgust when the ass on the other end of the line revealed his demands for Pineapple’s safe return. [Read more...]

Omaha, Nebraska–Denizens, feast your eyes on one bad-ass extortionist. Scary lookin’, isn’t he? Not exactly the face that pops into my mind when I think shakedown, extortion, or protection. When I look at Robert Peck, I think, ‘Opie: The Teenage Years.’ If you don’t agree to pay him for his ‘protection,’ he’ll aim his pretend gun at you! [Read more...]

Miguel Lopez

Anaheim, California–Miguel Lopez, 23, could’a been a hero. Sometime in late 2007, early 2008, Lopez found out that a band teacher he was acquainted with was boffin’ her former students and was quite possibly engaged in sexual relations with a current student. A normal person would have reported the teacher’s transgressions, accepted a pat on the back and an ‘atta boy, and continued on with his/her life knowing that he/she made a difference. Not Lopez. No, he decided he wanted to profit from the teacher’s sins.

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TERRE HAUTE, IND - John Beaty, 73, is a former principal and teacher at Martinsville High School. He now faces charges of sexual misconduct with a minor after being accused of having sex with a 14-year-old boy. Normally, especially on this site, that would be the story in a nutshell. But this story isn’t about Beaty as much as it is about the 14-year-old boy’s mother, Donna Mitchell, 35. Mitchell is accused of trying to extort money from Beaty by telling him that if he were to give her 300,000 dollars, she would not turn him in to police.

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