Man arrested for stalking girls via Halo

tmoney · Post by **tmoney** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:35 pm

Man arrested for stalking girls via Halo

A New York man by the name of Joshua R. Stetar was arrested Friday for stalking two young girls, a 15-year-old and her sister, he met while playing an unspecified title in the Halo franchise. Stetar, 20 years old, had discovered the girl's address by searching online and had been sending flowers and other packages -- which her parents returned -- to her home since they first met online in 2006. Stetar had apparently driven 40 hours straight from his home in Saratoga Springs, New York to the girl's home in Spokane, Washington, where he drove by her house and sent her threatening text messages. According to the Associated Press, the girl's parents were outside the home at the time and saw Stetar driving past. They wrote down Stetar's license plate number and called the police, who later tracked down Stetar at a hotel and arrested him. He has since posted the $10,000 bond and was released on Saturday.

A disturbing story to be sure. Let this be a reminder to the parents out there to utilize the 360's parental controls and keep an eye on what their kids are playing.

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:43 pm

Copy/pasted from Engadget, right? Anyway, I already read this. Hopefully they won't try to pin any of this on Halo 3. =x

tmoney · Post by **tmoney** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:04 pm

NO Actually They Copied in pasted From FanBoy But I Know I hope Not Either Way im GOnna Still Keep Owning Detox Lol

Aumaan Anubis · Post by **Aumaan Anubis** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:15 pm

'tis a disturbing story indeed.

Dead XXX Matt · Post by **Dead XXX Matt** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:40 pm

halo has nothing to do with it, this guys just crazy. you know the world, a lot of crazies

UPS · Post by **UPS** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:33 pm

The Story wrote:while playing an unspecified title in the Halo franchise.

A disturbing story to be sure. Let this be a reminder to the parents out there to utilize the 360's parental controls and keep an eye on what their kids are playing.

Lol... Thought that was kind of funny.

If this guy didn't try to molest little girls over the internet, he'd surely start looking in his own town. Sure, the internet is a tool for people like this, but so is the phone book.

SHOUTrvb · Post by **SHOUTrvb** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:00 am

Yeah, except people in your own town may actually know you and may be able to identify you before or after you try anything.

uralllame · Post by **uralllame** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:14 pm

Fox News are going to enjoy this...

reanimation-06 · Post by **reanimation-06** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:28 pm

Even though the media jumps at every chance to string the 'violent games ruining our children', I don't think this will make the news. The same thing has happened countless times.

jackson117 · Post by **jackson117** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:45 pm

oh yeah it was a bungie member gone isane lol.

anyway leave halo out of this the internet is a bad place

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:47 pm

You replied to a month old topic for that?

M9 HE-DP Grenade · Post by **M9 HE-DP Grenade** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:10 am

Wow, that's just a little disturbing

What's next, are people gonna use text over halo to have sex? lol

jackson117 · Post by **jackson117** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 7:28 pm

well ive heard its happened on thousands of other games to other people.

i think microsoft will be stepping in and getting tighter with LIVE now