Marijuana photos on MySpace lead to Suffolk man's arrest
SUFFOLK - An accused drug dealer learned the hard way what child safety advocates have preached for years:
Be careful what you put on the Internet.
A MySpace page boasting photos of homegrown marijuana sparked a police investigation into Michael Wayne Pilkerton and his brother, according to a search warrant filed last week in Suffolk Circuit Court.
Pilkerton, 20, of the 300 block of Delaney Drive in Suffolk, was charged with felony distribution after police said they used an informant to make three marijuana buys from him in recent months.
That work, according to the search warrant, began after Capt. D. Smith and Investigator R. Sieg learned about the MySpace page last March. Lt. D.J. George, a police spokeswoman, wouldn't discuss which types of Internet surveillance her detectives use.
Pilkerton's brother, Jonathan, had a MySpace page that showed large amounts of cultivated marijuana and comments by the brothers that they both frequently smoked marijuana, the warrant says. The warrant did not mention further investigation into Jonathan Pilkerton.
MySpace is a popular networking site that lets users easily create personal Web pages. A Web search Friday did not locate Pilkerton's MySpace page.
A phone call to Michael Pilkerton's home was not answered Friday. His defense attorney was unavailable for comment, his assistant said.
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