OFFICIALS ARREST 7 CONVICTED SEX OFFENDERS WITH MYSPACE PROFILES

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Seven convicted sex offenders with profiles on MySpace.com have been arrested in what Texas officials said was the country's first large-scale crackdown of registered offenders who use the social networking Web site.  They were picked up after MySpace.com released the names of offenders with online profiles to the state Attorney General's Office, which had issued a subpoena for the site's subscriber information.

In Houston, officials arrested Patrick Joseph Blevins, 49; Reginald Lee Collins, 27; Ronald Daven Metoyer, 41; and Robert Shepard Walter, 23.  Walter was also charged last month with failing to register as a sex offender.

Scott Peter Hansen, 44, was arrested in Glenn Heights, Jason Labronte Carr, 31, was taken into custody in Austin.  Jeremy Bryan Polak, 28, a parole violator accused of failing to register as a sex offender, was arrested in Round Rock.

(Houston, Texas)