All posts tagged "Craigslist"

A Texas Craigslist user who posted a $10,000 hit demand on Georgia election officials and the state governor has been sentenced to two years in prison, according to a new report.

Chad Stark was sentenced Wednesday after the Justice Department uncovered death threats made against Gov. Brian Kemp and judges linked to the 2020 presidential election, Politico reports.

Stark was arrested on federal charges in Travis County, Texas, in January 2022, according to the report. Politico reporter Josh Gerstein, first to report the sentencing, noted this is the first case brought by the Department of Justice's election threats task force....

A Wisconsin man was banned from using the Internet after being found guilty of using his neighbor's personal information to post an explicit fake online personal ad, WTMJ-TV reported.

A Missouri father was arrested last week after he showed up at a Cracker Barrel to meet an undercover officer who he had contacted on Craigslist about beating and raping his 11-year-old daughter.

An anonymous poster has stirred up controversy in a Norfolk, Virginia, neighborhood by asking black trick-or-treaters to stay away.

A Houston woman said she became suspicious when strange men began coming to her home late at night and knocking on the door.

The online classified service Craigslist has cost US newspapers at least $5 billion in revenue since 2000, researchers say.