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Threatening Messages Lead Police To Sock Stash
By Amy Sherrill
Van Buren police have arrested a man they say stalked a 15-year-old boy he met on the Internet.
Christopher Scott Elrod, 18, of Kibler posed as a teenage girl on the Internet while corresponding with a 15-year-old Van Buren boy. Elrod is actually a student at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, police said. Elrod and the boy corresponded for two to three weeks, and during that time, the 15-year-old was trying to determine the person’s identity, said Lt. Brent Grill of the Van Buren Police Department.
Shortly after the boy began inquiring at school about the person’s screen name, Elrod began sending threatening messages to the boy, a police report states. Eventually, he sent the boy photos of the inside of the boy’s residence on North 28th Street in Van Buren. Elrod told the boy he knew which bedroom was his and which one was his mother’s, police said.
“If you involve the police with this, I’m going to make your life a living Hell,” Elrod stated in an e-mail message. Elrod also told the boy he broke into the boy’s pickup. When the boy looked inside the pickup, he noticed a pair of Gucci shoes were missing, the report states.
He asked for Elrod to return them, but Elrod said he would do it only if the boy placed another pair of shoes and a pair of socks beside the boy’s pickup for him, Grill said. Police were notified Sunday of the ongoing threatening e-mails when the boy’s mother reported the threats. They continued to think the person was a teenage girl.
At about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, police were called to the boy’s residence when Elrod came to pick up the shoes and socks. The boy had received 200 threatening text messages from Elrod in the 12 hours prior to him picking up the shoes and socks, the report states.
Police arrested Elrod and, during an inventory of his vehicle, found more than 30 pairs of dirty socks in two different bags and a shoe box. Also found were several rolls of film. Many of the photographs were of feet. Police found two cell phones, a laptop computer and two lockblade knives, the report states.
When police executed a search warrant at the residence of Elrod’s father on Otis Street in Kibler, where Elrod lives, authorities discovered more than 200 socks. Many were in individual Ziploc bags with the first initial and last name of the person who owned the socks. Grill said most of them belonged to teenage boys.
“Whether this is a sexual fetish or a fetish, we have no idea,” Grill said. Police also found several pairs of shoes and men’s boxers.Elrod was arrested on suspicion of second-degree stalking, theft of property and criminal trespass. Grill said there may be other charges filed because the investigation is ongoing.
http://www.swtimes.com/archive/2004/December/03/news/threatening_messages.html
By Amy Sherrill
Van Buren police have arrested a man they say stalked a 15-year-old boy he met on the Internet.
Christopher Scott Elrod, 18, of Kibler posed as a teenage girl on the Internet while corresponding with a 15-year-old Van Buren boy. Elrod is actually a student at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, police said. Elrod and the boy corresponded for two to three weeks, and during that time, the 15-year-old was trying to determine the person’s identity, said Lt. Brent Grill of the Van Buren Police Department.
Shortly after the boy began inquiring at school about the person’s screen name, Elrod began sending threatening messages to the boy, a police report states. Eventually, he sent the boy photos of the inside of the boy’s residence on North 28th Street in Van Buren. Elrod told the boy he knew which bedroom was his and which one was his mother’s, police said.
“If you involve the police with this, I’m going to make your life a living Hell,” Elrod stated in an e-mail message. Elrod also told the boy he broke into the boy’s pickup. When the boy looked inside the pickup, he noticed a pair of Gucci shoes were missing, the report states.
He asked for Elrod to return them, but Elrod said he would do it only if the boy placed another pair of shoes and a pair of socks beside the boy’s pickup for him, Grill said. Police were notified Sunday of the ongoing threatening e-mails when the boy’s mother reported the threats. They continued to think the person was a teenage girl.
At about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, police were called to the boy’s residence when Elrod came to pick up the shoes and socks. The boy had received 200 threatening text messages from Elrod in the 12 hours prior to him picking up the shoes and socks, the report states.
Police arrested Elrod and, during an inventory of his vehicle, found more than 30 pairs of dirty socks in two different bags and a shoe box. Also found were several rolls of film. Many of the photographs were of feet. Police found two cell phones, a laptop computer and two lockblade knives, the report states.
When police executed a search warrant at the residence of Elrod’s father on Otis Street in Kibler, where Elrod lives, authorities discovered more than 200 socks. Many were in individual Ziploc bags with the first initial and last name of the person who owned the socks. Grill said most of them belonged to teenage boys.
“Whether this is a sexual fetish or a fetish, we have no idea,” Grill said. Police also found several pairs of shoes and men’s boxers.Elrod was arrested on suspicion of second-degree stalking, theft of property and criminal trespass. Grill said there may be other charges filed because the investigation is ongoing.
http://www.swtimes.com/archive/2004/December/03/news/threatening_messages.html
