Legal Niches

Man Uses Xbox Live to Threaten Witness

By pete_gallagher

Taking Xbox Live smack talk to another level, a Hamden, Connecticut man has been arrested for using the online service to threaten a witness.

23-year old Anthony Hayward was arrested in New Haven last year for allegedly having drugs and a stolen gun in his car, reports the Hartford Courant. Freed after posting $75,000 bail, Hayward logged into his Xbox Live account last December in order to type threats to someone that is apparently a witness in Hayward's drug/gun case.

The witness received a message that said 'Rats Die Slow,' and Hayward also referred to the person as a 'dead man walking.'

For these threats, Hayward was charged with harassment, intimidating a witness and tampering with a witness. He was arraigned on Tuesday in Milford Superior Court and held on $50,000 bail.

Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on April 14, 2010 (boomark / email).