The four alleged owners of a website which publishes photos of people taken soon after they have been arrested, have been arrested themselves.
The alleged owners of the mugshots.com website have been accused of extortion and a variety of other crimes.
The US-based site asks anyone wanting to have their image removed to hand over a substantial payment.
It generated more than $2m (£1.5m) from people keen to get images removed, said California's Attorney General.
"This pay-for-removal scheme attempts to profit off of someone else's humiliation," said Attorney General Xavier Becerra in a statement.
"Those who can't afford to pay into this scheme to have their information removed pay the price when they look for a job, housing, or try to build relationships with others," he said.
Images were only removed if people depicted on mugshots.com paid fees, said the statement, even though many had the charges against them dismissed or had been mistakenly arrested. More than 5,700 people paid to have their image removed from the site.
"This is exploitation, plain and simple," added Mr Becarra. The California Attorney General's office encouraged anyone who paid to get their image "de-published" to contact it with more details.
The four men charged are Thomas Keesee, Kishore Vidya Bhavnanie, David Usdan and Sahar Sarid.
As well as extortion, the four are charged with money laundering and identity theft. Mr Usdan, Mr Keesee and Mr Bhavnanie are currently in police custody.
In a statement posted to his personal site, Mr Sarid said his involvement with the site ended in 2013 after he had completed some consultancy work for it.
It is not clear what will happen to the mugshots.com site in the wake of its owners being arrested and charged. The site is still currently operating.
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I wonder if these charges will actually stick. Aren't mugshots public information?
did you even read OP? it's not about the mugshots, it's the fact they extorted money out of gullible retards to remove their images from the website
It doesn't matter. The owners have been named and arrested. Their pictures will appear on their own website and their names are now known to every criminal who wants to take vengeance on them. Mission accomplished.
this kind of reminds me of this case:
a guy reposts photos that he finds on the internet, or maybe in some cases the photos are submitted directly to his site idk, and monetizes the website with a pay-for-removal scheme and gets sentenced to 18 years in prison
it's not really justice if the punishment doesn't fit the crime, but whatever, I suppose lawyers and judges have to drum up work just like everybody else
Cases like this just underscore that the justice system is really just a control mechanism for keeping the masses in check and operating within the lines of what's socially acceptable, not what's actually legal or ethically ambiguous.
None of this matters, because once anything has been posted to the internet one can rest assured that it is out there somewhere.
Classic.
Removed from where? Everywhere?
Also, JN, gimme dat 'yellow fever' article NAO!
Yes, and? Is this your first year in learning how literally any civilization operates?
HAHAHAHA !!!!
classic !!
fucking CLASSIC !!
we already have pix of your ugly-ass face to shoop cocks onto all day long tho, how are we btfo Johnny?
you can't 'shoop' jack fucking shit.
You can't do ANYTHING creative
you play video games, because other people's creativity is what you swim in
perhaps one day some TALENTED CREATIVE PERSON will develop an augmented reality game called 'Alternate Reality', where you actually get laid….
Ahhh…
Here you are.
I actually wanted to talk to you about something important. Gimme a few minutes. I'll make an email. Seriously. I think we can work together on something actually important. This place is just a playground for people like us. I was thinking of changing the world. Interested? Gimme a few minutes. Lot's going on here and must juggle all the balls in the air as usual.
I'm being serious.
So they can still show mugshots but not extort(ads excluded)
There's another website like this where you can post bad reviews of a service or product and have to pay to have it removed
It wasn't yelp,although those cunts got in trouble for doing it
Go after these cunts
Am I having an acid flashback?
Yeah… Give me 5 minutes to help Wendy feed the two new kittens we've rescued, and I'll make an email, too
ThAT'S THOSE LIL BROWN MONKEYS,vIETS
CAP lock hit again,fuck it.
tiny fucking laptop keyboard,don't know how you do it on a phone.
Anyway,lil viet monkeys,not aryan type gooks like codemonkey with his alabaster skin
I always thought the same thing that ALL men think: 'asian girls are the best's
It doesn't matter if you ask a white guy, a black guy, a Mexican, a Greek, an Arab, an Eskimo or an Aboriginal…
they've all been brainwashed into perceiving Asian women as being 'so hot'…
then you start fucking them like I did I went through a 'streak' there for a while, banging one after another, just Asians… Japanese, Chinese, Korean…
One afternoon, in my bedroom, fucking a Japanese chick, I suddenly realized that they are yellow niggers… It's hard to understand at first, so try to envision what I'm saying.
They're space monkeys…
Alien Aunt Jemimas…
Yellow Niggers…
Their noses are flattened, their lips are thicker, their nipples are black and their cabbage-smelling vaginas are purple…
they're usually slightly 'thick' in a weird way… Their bodies are NOT hot at all (not even the hot ones are)
I looked down at her and almost puked…
I realized I had been fucking extraterrestrial niggers…
and I never touched one since
We live in a house that was built in the 1800's, and although it's been modernized, it's still a really big OLD house.
two nights ago I got bit by a spider while I was sleeping. It's all swollen up and hurts exactly like somebody putting out a lit cigarette on my skin.
I'm concerned about necrotizing, and I think I'm going to the emergency room to get it looked at and get a prescription of bactrim…
Sounds good. I like kittens too.
This is me:
[email protected]
Super busy still, so don't expect me to lay out my whole plan immediately.
Here's a nigger woman………………………….
another thing Asians and niggers have in common: if you put a wig on a nigger dude or an Asian dude, it's impossible to tell if it's a man or a woman.
you don't need to do full makeup or other decorations. Just a fucking wig.
Yep… They're space niggers, alright
Lol okay… I've got it saved.
Still waiting on the 'yellow fever' article, Johnny!
busy with kids, garden and supper, but if you email me I will reply with my ideas in full
I'll delete the post then.
Oops! I can't! I forgot to set my own deletion code, and the randomized one changed already! Oh well! Incoming!
The mathematical probability of being bombarded with terrible awful malicious emails is always highly overestimated
It's only been around 48 hours or less since I got bit by the spider but I'm already feeling incredibly nauseated. This fucking thing swelled up really big, and the actual puncture wound from the spiders mandible isnt healing over, but actually getting bigger.
Not only that, but it appears I have a secondary bacterial infection that's begun.
I haven't been feeling well all day, with an uneasy stomach, and now I'm actually feeling nauseated… 48 hours and advanced cellulitis has already kicked in…
God damn it I hate going to the hospital, and this shit always happens at the most inopportune of times… You always get a massive toothache at 2 a.m. on Saturday morning when the dentist won't open until Monday. Your dog always gets injured after hours, and never at opportune moments when you can simply go to the vet's office.
Such is life. Right now it feels like somebody is extinguishing a God damn cigar on me. This motherfucker hurts like shit
RE: Code Monkey
'code' not being the operative word
DAMN, look at the size of that FUCKING nose……………..
Johnny neptune would get stomped the fuck out on any general population yard here in cali. Iv seen a dude have a bad day and go cell to cell looking for weirdos like neptune.
He's a manlet. Children could stomp him.
Can you climb walls?
by gum,you rights!