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Jailed For "Friend" Requests

Cops: Florida man violated domestic order by contacting estranged wife via Facebook

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AUGUST 16--A Florida man was arrested last night after he allegedly violated a protective order by sending his estranged wife requests to “friend” him on Facebook.

According to a Pasco County Sheriff’s Office report, Harry Bruder, 54, admitted contacting his wife twice last last month via the social networking site. Investigators charge that Bruder’s Facebook requests violated a domestic violence injunction obtained by his wife Carole, from whom he has been separated for two years.

“Yeah, I did it,” Bruder said when confronted by cops. He remarked that the friend requests were “stupid” and knew that he should not have sent them. Bruder, who also copped to changing the password to his wife’s Yahoo e-mail account, said that he was upset that he had to attend court-ordered counseling sessions as a result of the injunction (which bars him from any contact with his wife).

Bruder, pictured in the above mug shot, was jailed in lieu of $5,000 bail. The sheriff’s report lists his employer at Bud’s Plumbing. Bruder’s Facebook page can be found here.

In an apparent reference to the filing of the restraining order, Bruder wrote in a July 27 post to his Facebook wall that, “today my future x wife thinks she won but the real winner is me for i know the truth she is nothing but a lying emotionally disturbed woman who needs help to handle previous abusive relationship." (3 pages)

Comments (8)

This guy's social net working should be confined to a fishing boat in Alaska.
It is a pathetic world when something so seemingly harmless causes others to be interested enough to post this article on various websites. Although this information is a matter of public knowledge, it didn't have to be posted for the world to see. If an individual finds it necessary to find this information that's one thing, but to give out statistical information that could lead to endangering the safety of, not only the individual in question, but family members and friends. No one has bothered to get the story from the accused party. The person responsible for all of this should have her mental stability questioned. I know the accused and know that he may have made some innocent mistakes, but there was NEVER any threat to her safety. She has purgered herself from the get-go and has tried to break up a relationship, cause the threat of losing his job, and made a once workable situation a total mess. There has never been anyone, including the judge involved in this case that has asked for the accused side of the story. I have learned that there is a gross injustice involving the misuse of DVI's and the lack of "innocent until proven guilty." If the person who first reported the "so called" threat had not lied in the first place, no one would have been interested in this matter. I have also learned that there is no defense involved when it comes to trying to vindecate a person from lies because of the vindictiveness of others. Something needs to be done to allow the accused person's in these cases to have some type of recourse, instead of being told that anything said or written by others who know the accused is deemed as hear-say, when the initial charge was based on hear-say. So all I can say in closing is, Judge not lessed yea be judged! Get a real life people!!!
It is a pathetic world when something so seemingly harmless causes others to be interested enough to post this article on various websites. Although this information is a matter of public knowledge, it didn't have to be posted for the world to see. If an individual finds it necessary to find this information that's one thing, but to give out statistical information that could lead to endangering the safety of, not only the individual in question, but family members and friends. No one has bothered to get the story from the accused party. The person responsible for all of this should have her mental stability questioned. I know the accused and know that he may have made some innocent mistakes, but there was NEVER any threat to her safety. She has purgered herself from the get-go and has tried to break up a relationship, cause the threat of losing his job, and made a once workable situation a total mess. There has never been anyone, including the judge involved in this case that has asked for the accused side of the story. I have learned that there is a gross injustice involving the misuse of DVI's and the lack of "innocent until proven guilty." If the person who first reported the "so called" threat had not lied in the first place, no one would have been interested in this matter. I have also learned that there is no defense involved when it comes to trying to vindecate a person from lies because of the vindictiveness of others. Something needs to be done to allow the accused person's in these cases to have some type of recourse, instead of being told that anything said or written by others who know the accused is deemed as hear-say, when the initial charge was based on hear-say. So all I can say in closing is, Judge not lessed yea be judged! Get a real life people!!!
Wow, thats pretty messed up dude. Guess cops down in Florida dont have any real crime to deal with?? LOu www.be-anonymous.se.tc
You are so right. While people are out there getting murdered, doing drugs, and other serious crimes are not punished to the extent that the accused in this article has been, we need to question the integrity of the people involved in our legal system as to why they don't allow the accused person ANY type of defense for themselves.
WTG Smoking gun, now the whole world knows the victim's age, name, address, phone number, where she works and date of birth......... ...........also interesting that his wife is listed as male...........but I guess that's a sign of the times.......
I'm hoping that's his mugshot and not his profile pic.
Here's one less issue I can guarantee anyone that I will never have to worry about! :-)