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A COUPLE sold 58 machetes, knives and bayonets on Snapchat using a profile called “War and Warstock”, a court has heard. They allegedly produced chilling advertising videos making the weapons look “appealing”. 2Jordan Lovett is charged with acquiring criminal property, namely cash 2Fiance Loishana McKenzie faces up to two years in jail for marketing a knife likely to encourage violent behaviour Mum Loishana McKenzie, 24, and fiance Jordan Lovett, 23, from Newham, East London, plus a local boy aged 17, face up to two years in jail for marketing a knife likely to encourage violent behaviour. Lovett is also charged with acquiring criminal property, namely cash. They are due to appear at Snaresbrook crown court again tomorrow, when they are expected to enter guilty pleas. The hearing comes after The Sun on Sunday revealed how Instagram and other social media sites were allowing machetes to be sold to youngsters amid a surge in knife crime. Several pages on the app boasted of stocking Rambo blades, but were axed after our investigation. The Ben Kinsella Trust, which campaigns to reduce knife crime, called the availability of the knives online “despicable”. SEA THREATRussia is UK's 'number 1 threat' as submarines surround coast,…

A Pennsylvania man with ties to Bucks County was arrested Friday for his alleged role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, federal prosecutors said.Leonard P. Ridge 4th allegedly posted several videos on Snapchat of his participation. He also exchanged messages with several other users on the social-media platform boasting of his involvement, according to the FBI. One of his postings read: “I have video of me fighting riot police in the capital building.”Many of his posts were filled with misspellings and grammatical errors.In another message, Ridge allegedly wrote that “we bro down McConnells door and nacy pelosios door and raided the offices.”“I just made history,” Ridge allegedly declared.According to the FBI, in one post Ridge shared a screenshot from news video showing security personnel inside the Capitol with guns drawn on a barricaded door.The image included the caption: “You deserve to live in fear.”The image was accompanied with a tweet from former President Donald Trump with the words altered to say: “I am the Senate. I am the living Constitution. My Power belongs to ME. I’m not leaving!!!”Prosecutors did not specify where Ridge lives in Pennsylvania or his age. A 2014 newspaper article reported that…

The suit claims the ability to embed Instagram posts without licensing the content within them is "like eating for free at a buffet table of photos." Instagram DENIS CHARLET/AFP via Getty Images The next wave in litigation over embedded social media posts is a copyright infringement suit against Instagram on behalf of pretty much anyone who has used the app and had their content aggregated elsewhere without permission. Fights over shared social content started back in 2017, before TikTok made people forget about Snapchat, when a photo of Tom Brady sparked lawsuits against a handful of media outlets. Someone took a pic of the NFL quarterback in the Hamptons with the general manager of the Boston Celtics and posted it on Snap; someone else uploaded a screen shot to Twitter, where it went viral; and then news outlets started embedding those tweets in stories about whether Brady was helping the NBA team recruit star Kevin Durant. The man who took the photo, Justin Goldman, sued the media organizations — and a New York federal judge agreed that embedding the Tweets containing the pic amounted to copyright infringement. (An appeals court declined to take up an interlocutory appeal, and eventually it…

Milton man charged with child enticement over Snapchat messages A 26-year-old Milton man was charged with child enticement after a stepfather posed as a child on Snapchat.Christopher A. Skelly was charged with one felony count of child enticement in Columbia County Circuit Court on Tuesday. Judge Todd Hepler set $5,000 signature bond. Skelly may not have contact with the child, the child’s family and may not have unsupervised contact with underage girls. He may not access the internet through any device. Skelly faces up to 25 years in prison and $100,000 in fines for the charge. In an unfortunate event your identity was stolen, here are nine tips to help you recover your identity, according to the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP). According to the criminal complaint, a Columbia County sheriff’s detective sergeant received information about Snapchat messages that were sent to a 12-year-old. The stepfather told the detective that he looked at the child’s phone and saw a picture of a penis sent to the child on Snapchat.The stepfather then posed as the child on Snapchat and had a sexually explicit conversation with the user, identified as Skelly, who claimed to be 16 years old and…

Snapchat used large LED screens to present its annual "Snap Partner Summit," a move that caught the attention of tech insiders who were eager to see what the company had been building during the pandemic.Why it matters: The annual presentation, done entirely in augmented reality (AR) this year, has become a must-see event for Snapchat stakeholders — akin to how Apple's product announcements have become cultural moments.Get market news worthy of your time with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free."It communicates who we are and our values as a company," said Betsy Kenny Lack, Snapchat's head of global brand strategy.Details: The presentation allowed speakers to present new products alongside a virtual background.It opened with a scene inspired by the National Forests and State Parks of Southern California."We created three acres of forest," Kenny Lack said. The intention was to draw attention to the wildfires impacting the Southern California region, where Snap Inc. is based. The scene was a nod to a new partnership Snap announced with Re:wild and the National Parks Service.The forest scene features virtual recreations of many of the flowers, plants and species found in the region, including Birch trees and perennial flowers. It carried across the event as…

CLOSE What is the difference between misdemeanors and felonies in Pennsylvania? York Daily RecordDistrict Judge Jennifer J.P. Clancy on Wednesday ordered Ronald Boyd Jr., 29, of York, to stand trial on a charge of criminal homicide in the deadly shooting of Angel Perez II.Ronald Boyd Jr. could only think about the Snapchat video, police said. In 2020, Angel Perez II accused Boyd of robbing him at his mother’s home in York, West York Borough Police Lt. David Kahley testified on Wednesday at a preliminary hearing via Zoom. So Perez decided to respond in-kind, police said. He robbed Boyd at gunpoint, forced him to strip naked and apologize and posted a video of the humiliating encounter on Snapchat. Their paths finally crossed again at Kingston Jerk, on West Market Street near North Highland Avenue in West York, in the early morning hours of Feb. 14: Valentine’s Day.“Mr. Boyd had fired six to seven shots,” said Kahley, who described surveillance video of the deadly shooting outside the Jamaican restaurant after prosecutors played it in District Court 19-2-05 in Spring Garden Township, “and the victim has fallen to the ground.”Before he fell into the street, Perez appeared to try to raise a handgun. Next, Boyd pistol-whipped…

Accused lured victim via Snapchat: Police Author of the article: Postmedia News Joshua Oliver, 29. Photo by HANDOUT /TORONTO POLICE Toronto Police have arrested a 29-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman in a sex trafficking investigation that included an alleged introduction via the Snapchat social media platform. Police say during April, a female victim met a man on Snapchat who went by the username ‘driptastic.’ The girl then entered into what she believed to be a romantic relationship with the man, according to police. Marianna Benkartoussa, 22 TORONTO POLICE HANDOUT In a short period of time, the girl was allegedly coerced by the man and another woman to work within the sex trade against her will. Police say all money she made was kept from her, as were her personal belongings. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Police on May 12 charged Joshua Oliver and Marianna Benkartoussa, both of Toronto, with procuring/exercising control, advertising another person’s sexual services, trafficking in persons, material benefit from sexual services and financial material benefit from trafficking person over 18. More On This Topic Two Toronto men arrested in human trafficking probe Toronto woman, 22, charged with sex trafficking Accused sex-trafficking socialite…

A screen recording taken from Snapchat’s world map and reposted to Twitter and Reddit shows stories and images taken from Israel and Palestine amid violence in Gaza in the last week. Posted on the r/PublicFreakout subreddit, the video is just over a minute long and shows a glimpse of life in Tel Aviv. People share videos from a night out, at the beach, and at brunch. The bustling financial center in Israel is pictured as peaceful in residents’ sunny pictures of daily life. The video shows public Snapchat stories posted from Gaza City in the Gaza Strip of Palestine. One clip shows a young boy surrounded by rumble on the street, the aftermath of an airstrike. In the next clip, a building in the distance is on fire and smoking heavily after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike. The contrast between the videos and images in each city is startling. Similar videos were also shared to Twitter from TikTok as creators reacted to the content from both of the cities. “Idk if I was shocked but… the differences are STARK,” user @obeysyed, who goes by Suede, tweeted after creating a TikTok showing himself react to the Snapchat map. In…

A 20-year old Brown County man is facing a Level 5 felony for sexual misconduct with a minor after police say he engaged in a physical relationship with a 14-year-old.Indiana State Trooper Chris Griggs received information on March 21 of an inappropriate relationship between 20-year-old Chandler Popplewell, of Fruitdale Road, and the teen.Griggs spoke with the victim at home. Her mother reportedly knew of the relationship, but was initially told that Popplewell was 17. Once she found out his real age, the victim was not to be around him any longer, the police report said.The victim said that she and Popplewell were only friends and denied any physical interactions beyond hugging and a possible kiss.Griggs asked the mother for consent to search the victim’s phone and she agreed. The victim said she and Popplewell communicated via Snapchat, which keeps no record of conversation, but Griggs did find a few text messages exchanged regarding Popplewell giving the victim marijuana and the two napping together, the police report says.Popplewell told Griggs he had known the girl for about a year. He said the first time she came to his house was a few months prior. They did hug and kiss that evening.…

By Elise Kaplan / Journal Staff Writer Published: Monday, May 17th, 2021 at 6:51pmUpdated: Monday, May 17th, 2021 at 10:05pm A ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Bernalillo County Sheriff’s deputy arrests Jovanny Rios, 14. He is charged with kidnapping, robbery and aggravated battery after a woman said he stabbed her in the neck and stole her purse, cellphone and gun. (Courtesy BCSO)Bernalillo County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a teenage boy who they say robbed and brutally stabbed a 23-year-old woman he met on Snapchat.Jovanny Rios, 14, is charged with kidnapping, robbery, aggravated battery and tampering with evidence. He was booked into the Juvenile Detention Center on Friday, and a spokesman for the 2nd Judicial District Attorney’s Office said the case qualifies him to be charged as a youthful offender. She said prosecutors have 10 days to file documents stating they intend to ask for him to be punished as an adult.It was not clear Monday if he had an attorney.According to an incident report provided by the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office, when investigators interviewed Rios — alongside his mother — he told them he owed someone money. The name of the person he said he owed money to is redacted due to…