Seven convicted sex offenders with MySpace profiles have been arrested from various cities in Texas, as a direct result of the Attorneys General request for MySpace's cooperation in identifying registered sex offenders on the social networking site.
The men were arrested during a two-week operation led by the Cyber Crimes and Fugitive units under the Texas Attorney General's office. This was the first large-scale crackdown for registered offenders that are using MySpace. One of the men arrested had been charged just last month for failing to register as a sex offender, and another three of the men arrested may have their parole revoked. There's still a lot of work to do yet, as indicated by the 300 sex offenders with MySpace accounts found in Kansas alone.