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After being pulled over in Chula Vista, CA for a traffic violation, Abraham Shorey, who had no ID and gave a false name, was let free. Hours later, the Department of Justice came back with the correct identification and he was picked up later in San Diego. According to News 10 Now, the Creeper is coming back to Ithaca to face justice:

“Mr. Shorey would appear in a hearing there, and the judge would make a call as to whether or not there is sufficient reason to extradite him,” Wilkinson said.

But she says either way, he’ll be here. And how much will taxpayers have to cough up to bring Shorey back? The DA says she would like to do it more cheaply, but she may have to send two officers on a commercial flight.

Now, we just hope that when he gets back here he won’t be able to get bail and flee Ithaca again. The DA has indicated that she will request that bail be remanded.

On another note, I came across the following today from Abraham Shorey’s wife “Isa Sequoia Bigtree Lake” who also goes by the online alias mamabigtree:

Greetings, my name is Isa, I am a mama of 6 beautiful children, Sunny Lake 10, Shine 8, Wanda 5, Iris 4, Maya 3, and Freya is 6 months old. They are all very amazing children and very much enlightened. We are searching for are family. We would like to find a community that we can become members in and beome part of the team. We as a family can contribute much love and happiness to any community and to the world. We are willing to work and contribute are talents. Me as the mother have taught my children spiritual values that I would like to continue. My children are taught to respect each other and the mother earth, they are also taught to be honest and truthful, they are taught to teach others how they want to be treated. I wish for my kids to be home schooled and shown the ways of the land. I would like it if they didn’t watch t.v. or eat meat. I would very much like it if we could join a community where all are needs are met and we would be living in harmony with all of our neighbors and with the earth. Please contact me if you can feel for me and my children and our future. If you are community looking for members that will add love, respect, and equal contribution please call me at 732-986-4725. Live 2 give true etenal love, eternally ISA

It’s hard to understand the Shorey family from these online snippets, which raise more questions than answers.  If you’re interested in the old family history, check out this post.

Nathan Poffenbarger has just been spotted online, sources close to the Cornell Blog say. His new profile reads “…eating humble pie,” and his AIM icon has been changed to “fuck you fucking fuck“. It’s interesting that his old AOL screen name, poffpoison, is still in use.

Sadly, before we could strike up conversation, Poffenbarger signed off after just under an hour online:

(9:42:55 PM) Nathan Poffenbarger has signed off.

You can bet we’ll be keeping close tabs on any more Nathan Poffenbarger online developments. And, we promise this blog is not run by crazy stalkers.

Update:

Nathan Poffenbarger, currently indicted for 4 counts of assault as a hate crime, has set his AOL Instant Messenger profile to:

put this in your profile if you or someone you know has had their bike stolen by black kids.

I can see no other explanation for this but racism, and wonder if things like this will slip out of his mouth when he’s cross-examined in court. This is shameful.

Sources close to the Cornell Blog have supplied us with Nathan Poffenbarger’s Facebook Profile. As you can see, it’s been removed, probably at the request of his lawyer:

That, however, doesn’t stop us from examining Poffenbarger’s Facebook friends, which are still visible. In fact, we can even classify them by race:

The first thing you’ll notice is that none of his facebook friends are black, although 12% of Americans are. That aside, the number of white people he knows is on par with the 2000 US Census average of 75%, but he’s friends with about 4 times as many Asians as the national average of 3.6%. Of course, the entrance rates for Cornell are shifted from these numbers, but as Poffenbarger is a transfer student, I’d rather compare with nationwide statistics. Now let’s look at gender:

This is a little inverted–according to the USA Today, 57% of people attending college are now women, and yet Nathan Poffenbarger’s profile shows only 42.2% of his friends as female. That’s a difference of 15% from the national average, and leads to ask the question, “Did Nathan Poffenbarger mostly associate with white males like himself?” The answer is .71 * .58 = 41% of his friends are white males. This is in contrast to the expected value of .75 * .43 = 32%. Even more troubling is that he has no black facebook friends.

Other interesting details gleaned from his profile include his AIM name (poffpoison), his cellphone number (301.639.0261), his net id (nhp8@cornell.edu), and his dormitory address (Transfer Center 1327). Here is his full profile:

Apparently I can still poke him:

Update

Oddly, his profile is back online, albeit with anything resembling contact information gone. Facebook glitch or change or heart? You decide.