RaShawn Ariel Scott ran registrant-extortion scheme from inside a Georgia State Prison

This POS is currently incarcerated in prison in Georgia and has been since 2014. He’s been running this scam FROM PRISON. No joke. His record includes racketeering, aggravated assault, and weapons charges. This means he has accomplices on the outside I hope are caught. 

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

NAME: SCOTT, RASHAWN ARIEL

GDC ID: 1001311469

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

YOB: 1992

RACE: BLACK

GENDER: MALE

HEIGHT: 5'09''

WEIGHT: 172

EYE COLOR: BROWN

HAIR COLOR: BLACK

INCARCERATION DETAILS

MAJOR OFFENSE: ARMED ROBBERY

MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: WILCOX STATE PRISON

MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: 09/26/2028

ACTUAL RELEASE DATE: CURRENTLY SERVING 

CURRENT STATUS: ACTIVE 

KNOWN ALIASES

A.K.A. SCOTT,RASHAWN A

A.K.A. SCOTT,RASHAWN ARIEL

STATE OF GEORGIA - CURRENT SENTENCES

CASE NO: 790025 

OFFENSE: RACKETEERING

CONVICTION COUNTY: BIBB COUNTY 

CRIME COMMIT DATE: 04/01/2014

SENTENCE LENGTH: 5 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS 

CASE NO: 790025 

OFFENSE: POSS OF FIREARM DUR CRIME

CONVICTION COUNTY: BIBB COUNTY 

CRIME COMMIT DATE: 08/03/2012

SENTENCE LENGTH: 5 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS 

CASE NO: 790025 

OFFENSE: AGGRAV ASSAULT

CONVICTION COUNTY: BIBB COUNTY 

CRIME COMMIT DATE: 08/03/2012

SENTENCE LENGTH: 10 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS 

CASE NO: 790025 

OFFENSE: AGGRAV ASSAULT

CONVICTION COUNTY: BIBB COUNTY 

CRIME COMMIT DATE: 08/03/2012

SENTENCE LENGTH: 10 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS 

CASE NO: 790025 

OFFENSE: ARMED ROBBERY

CONVICTION COUNTY: BIBB COUNTY 

CRIME COMMIT DATE: 08/03/2012

SENTENCE LENGTH: 10 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS 

CASE NO: 790025 

OFFENSE: POSS OF FIREARM DUR CRIME

CONVICTION COUNTY: BIBB COUNTY 

CRIME COMMIT DATE: 08/03/2012

SENTENCE LENGTH: 5 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS 

STATE OF GEORGIA - PRIOR SENTENCES

STATE OF GEORGIA - INCARCERATION HISTORY

INCARCERATION BEGIN: 06/04/2014 

INCARCERATION END: ACTIVE 

https://www.oleantimesherald.com/news/georgia-man-jailed-in-mckean-co-for-alleged-scam-against-registered-sex-offender/article_4d2eb529-982b-4d58-90a2-869b90c59aad.html

Georgia man jailed in McKean Co. for alleged scam against registered sex offender

By MARCIE SCHELLHAMMER marcie@bradfordera.com Apr 3, 2025

BRADFORD, Pa. — A Georgia man is in McKean County Jail, charged for allegedly impersonating a cop to scam a registered sex offender out of $1,000.

Rashawn Scott, 33, of Claxton, Ga., is charged with identity theft, a third-degree felony; theft by deception, theft by unlawful taking, theft by extortion and receiving stolen property, all first-degree misdemeanors; impersonating a public servant, a second-degree misdemeanor; and furnishing false information, a third-degree misdemeanor.

According to the criminal complaint, on Aug. 23, 2022, a Bradford man registered on the state police Megan’s Law website as a sex offender went to the Lewis Run state police barracks and attempted to give two gift cards to the police communications officer. He said he was told to bring the cards to the barracks.

The scam victim explained to state police that he was called by a Punxsutawney phone number that morning by someone who identified himself as “Sgt. Harding.” The person on the phone provided a badge number and said he had a warrant for the victim’s arrest. The caller, who state police allege was Scott, told the scam victim there were new laws pertaining to Megan’s Law offenders that they must provide DNA samples and other testing or a warrant would be issued for their arrest, according to the complaint.

Scott allegedly said if the scam victim gave him $1,000, he would “make the warrant go away.” When the scam victim said he didn’t have that kind of money, Scott pretended to be talking to superiors; the scam victim then said he could ask his uncle for money. Scott allegedly stayed on the phone with the scam victim while he drove to his uncle’s house to borrow money, the court records state.

Scott told the scam victim if he lost the call and didn’t call back, he would send people to arrest him. Still on the call, the scam victim went to CVS and purchased two prepaid cards, and gave the card information to Scott. The scam victim was told to go to the state police barracks, which he did, the records state.

While investigating, troopers learned that Scott had allegedly activated the cards and transferred the funds to another person, and had that person send the money to other people. Scott had been serving a prison sentence in Georgia prior to being arraigned in Bradford on Wednesday, state police said.

He was arraigned before District Judge Rich Luther and remanded to jail in lieu of $50,000 bail. A hearing has been scheduled for Central Court on April 10.

New York Times article reports that vigilante groups are growing increasingly violent, as we have predicted

It is a very long article, so I won't report it in full here. The full article can be accessed at:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/26/us/pedophile-hunting-violence.html

Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral

With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.

By Aric Toler and Neil Bedi

Produced by Aliza Aufrichtig, Joyce Ho, Natalie Reneau and Rumsey Taylor

March 26, 2025

A vigilante phenomenon has been playing out on the open web for almost a decade: Content creators in the U.S. pose as minors on dating apps and websites, then target the people who message them. Many of these vigilantes, commonly known as pedophile hunters, were inspired by “To Catch a Predator,” a popular television series that ran until 2007. The “hunters” have copied the show’s format, exposing their targets on social media.

But in the past two years, a growing number have gone a step further and violently attacked the targets in their videos, a New York Times analysis has found.

In one of the most brutal cases, a masked man who referred to himself online as “realjuujika” (real name:Ahmad Al-Azzam)allegedly broke into the home of a 73-year-old man in Pennsylvania last year, then tied him up and beat him with a hammer.

In a video, realjuujika stands over the bloodied man and claims he caught him trying to solicit sex from a 15-year-old boy. He robs the man and films his credit cards, sharing the information with his thousands of followers.

Realjuujika, at one point, turns to the man and says, “You will probably die tonight.” When the footage was streamed online weeks later, viewers cheered the violence.

The man was hospitalized, according to police reports, and needed surgery to stop the bleeding in his brain. The attack was part of a small, but disturbing trend that has spread on social media and attracted millions of viewers.

There have been more than 170 violent vigilante attacks by pedophile hunters since 2023, according to a Times analysis of hundreds of videos and social media posts. The footage shows hunters chasing their targets through retail stores, beating people bloody on public streets and shaving the heads of their targets. In the most extreme cases, people have been hospitalized with serious injuries.

The Times analysis found that at least 22 individuals and groups have inflicted violence in the name of pedophile hunting in the last two years, compared with roughly 40 others who made similar videos without violence. Most of the violent activity started in the past year.

“There has been a notable increase in overt physical violence within these groups,” said Emma Hussey, an Australian criminologist who studied U.S. pedophile hunters at Queensland University of Technology...

Some longtime groups have built larger audiences after turning to violence. Dads Against Predators, the most prolific group analyzed by The Times, was not violent in the majority of its videos when it started in 2020. But after it began posting on Locals three years later, videos showed the group routinely brutalizing its targets, attacking at least 100 people, The Times found.

The group now claims to have hundreds of paying subscribers, and clips from their videos frequently go viral.

“To see early videos, unedited videos, fights, and stuff that will get me banned on social media head to locals!” wrote Joshua Mundy, one of the group's founders, in a Facebook post...

Child predators are some of the most universally reviled people in the country. That has helped pedophile hunters shield themselves from public scrutiny of their actions. Often, the hunters post chat logs that they allege show their targets soliciting sex from people posing as minors, and in some cases law enforcement has worked with them to arrest and prosecute their targets.

But the violent groups are often less interested in working with the criminal justice system. “We don’t count arrests and catches,” Mr. Mundy said in an Instagram post claiming that Dads Against Predators had caused more suicides among its targets than any other group. “We count bodies.”

Law enforcement experts said those groups put bystanders in danger by attacking people in public places and jeopardize criminal cases.

“Attacking someone so you can make money on social media is a crime,” said District Attorney Christopher L. de Barrena-Sarobe of Chester County, Pa., where the realjuujika attack took place...

In October, students at Assumption University in Massachusetts allegedly lured a 22-year-old man to campus, called him a predator and chased and attacked him when he tried to escape, according to a police report. After reviewing the man’s Tinder messages, officers said the man had thought he was meeting an 18-year-old student, not a 17-year-old, as the students had alleged.

Two weeks later, fraternity members and pledges at Salisbury University in Maryland allegedly posed as a 16-year-old on Grindr, a dating app used primarily by gay men. They invited a man to an off-campus apartment, where they restrained him, called him slurs and broke one of his ribs. The age of consent in Maryland is 16...

In one of the final realjuujika videos, Mr. Al-Azzam, holding a hammer and wearing the same disguise he used during his attacks, recited a list of his motivations that echoed conspiracy theories popular in right-wing circles. He said the government was protecting “sick-minded people” and that presidents had sexually assaulted children. He asked for support from Mr. Ross and Andrew Tate, an online influencer known for his misogynistic views, who is facing criminal charges for sexual misconduct.

To his viewers, he called for action: “You guys need to stand up and get shit done.”...

These platforms gained prominence in recent years, after sustained right-wing outrage over claims of online censorship. Locals was founded after a right-wing personality was banned by its mainstream competitor Patreon for using a racial slur. Rumble, which acquired Locals in 2021, has been backed by prominent conservative figures. Before Vice President JD Vance became a senator in 2023, his venture capital fund was a major investor in the company. His office did not respond when asked if he still had an investment in Rumble...

 In some cases, local officials did not charge them because the people who were attacked declined to press charges or never alerted law enforcement. In others, authorities themselves chose not to pursue charges.

Of the 22 violent groups and individuals identified by The Times, only seven appear to have been criminally charged for their actions, according to a review of police and court records.

Students who allegedly helped orchestrate the pedophile hunting at Assumption University are facing felony kidnapping and conspiracy charges. One of those students was also charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Students at Salisbury University were originally arrested on felony assault and hate crime charges, but most had their charges dropped or reduced to misdemeanor assault and false imprisonment.

Mr. Al-Azzam is facing more than 20 charges across multiple states and is being held on $1 million bail in Pennsylvania. His trial is pending.

But the criminal justice system has not deterred some of the largest groups.

Mr. Carnicom of Dads Against Predators and four other men were charged with a felony offense in Texas for chasing a man in a parking lot and beating him while he was on the ground in September. The attack was livestreamed on Kick. Mr. Carnicom left Texas before charges were filed and has continued to post videos on Locals...

Corrupt C.O. at NJ's shadow prison gets only three years for murder

New Jersey has its own shadow prison where the guards routinely assault civil detainees. He deserves longer than three years. I hope the other prisoners find out this clown was a prison guard.

https://www.nj.com/middlesex/2025/02/nj-corrections-officer-sentenced-to-prison-for-assaulting-detainee-who-later-died.html

N.J. corrections officer sentenced to prison for assaulting detainee who later died

Updated: Feb. 21, 2025, 4:40 p.m.|Published: Feb. 21, 2025, 4:11 p.m.

Darrell Smith died days after he was assaulted by a corrections officer in 2019, according to the state Attorney General's Office. The officer was sentenced to prison for the assault, but was not accused of causing Smith's death.

By Matt Gray | For NJ.com

A New Jersey corrections officer was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday after admitting to assaulting a civilly committed s** o** who later died.

Officer Giuseppe Mandara, 55, of Brick, was accused of using “excessive or unlawful force” against Darrell Smith during a 2019 incident, according to the state attorney general’s office.

Smith died several days later of a stroke, but Mandara was not accused of causing his death.

A state grand jury indicted Mandara last July on a second-degree count of official misconduct.

Under a plea agreement reached with prosecutors, Mandara pleaded guilty in December to a third-degree count of aggravated assault.

Prosecutors had recommended a four-year state prison term.

The plea agreement also requires that Mandara forfeit his public employment and bars him from future public office or employment.

New Jersey Superior Court Judge Thomas Isenhour sentenced Mandara Friday morning at the Union County Courthouse and ordered him to surrender in March to begin serving his prison term.

Mandara had been working in the Special Treatment Unit, a facility that houses more than 400 civilly committed s** o**s next door to East Jersey State Prison in the Avenel section of Woodbridge Township. On Aug. 23, 2019, he got into a “physical altercation” with Smith, the state attorney general’s office previously said.

The officer abandoned his equipment, including his keys and radio, and “used excessive or unlawful force against the resident,” prosecutors said.

Smith, 50, suffered a fatal stroke several days after the incident, officials said.

Smith’s family filed a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging he was attacked twice by a group of correctional officers in “gang-style” assaults at the treatment unit prior to his death.

“Mr. Smith was tortured, beaten, kicked, punched, stomped, placed in an illegal chokehold, slammed to the ground, and had his head slammed into a glass door,” the ongoing lawsuit alleges, adding that he was denied “prompt and critical medical care” after the first attack.

The second attack resulted in “catastrophic injuries that left him in an unresponsive and catatonic state” in a cell covered in his own feces, urine and vomit, the suit claims.

Four days after the attack, Smith was taken to a hospital, where he arrived unresponsive, according to his family. He was placed on life support, declared brain dead and died two days later.

The grand jury heard testimony from the state medical examiner about the cause of the stroke and manner of death, but “the grand jury did not initiate homicide charges in connection with the victim’s death,” according to the attorney general’s office.

After serving more than 23 years in prison on kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault charges, Smith was civilly committed in 2016 under the state’s Sexually Violent Predator Act.

He worked in the kitchen at the Special Treatment Unit’s main building and it was after breakfast that the encounter with Mandara occurred, according to witnesses and court documents.

After serving breakfast, Smith allegedly asked a fellow detainee to bring leftover peanut butter and sugar packets to his living quarters while he continued cleaning the kitchen.

When a female corrections officer saw the other detainee taking a tray with the peanut butter and sugar packets for Smith, she allegedly told him to place the tray on her desk. Then, she entered Smith’s cell, removed bananas and distributed the food to other detainees, witnesses alleged.

The female officer, who was working with Mandara that day, verbally berated Smith, accused him of stealing the food and used anti-gay slurs, according to the lawsuit.

As Smith began walking away, he said, “You can’t go in my room and just take stuff out of my room,” according to the family’s suit.

Mandara became “enraged,” called Smith a thief, yelled slurs and vowed to “f-- you up,” the suit alleges.

While the attorney general’s announcements on the case didn’t include those details, it said Mandara “purposely took off his duty belt, which included keys to the facility and a radio” and “advanced toward the victim in order to continue an earlier verbal dispute.”

The encounter escalated into a physical fight and Mandara “repeatedly punched the victim while he was on the ground,” admitting in court that his punches were thrown “with the specific intent to cause significant bodily injury to the victim and that his actions were excessive and without justification under the circumstances,” according to the attorney general.

In a statement following Mandara’s guilty plea in December, Smith’s family expressed its appreciation for the work of prosecutors on the case.

”The family is deeply grateful for this outcome. This guilty plea serves as validation for Darrell, our family, and the courageous witnesses who came forward about this tragic event,” the family said.

Deranged Colorado vigilante murders a Registered Person for an act that would be legal in most US States

In most states, the age of consent is 16 or 17; only 12 states, the age is 18. The victim was convicted in California, one of the 12 states where the AoC is 18. The age of consent in Colorado is 17; however, there exists in the legislation close-in-age exceptions, which allow those aged 15 and 16 to engage in acts with those less than ten years older and those less than 15 to engage in acts with those less than four years older. A 17-year-old may not, however, consent to sex with a person who is in a position of trust with respect to the person under the age of eighteen. C.R.S. 18-3-405.3

Has the victim had this relationship in Colorado, he would not have been required to register. But under Colorado law, registration was required for any offense registrable in conviction jurisdiction OR would be a registrable offense in Colorado. CRS §16-22-103(3)

Thus, Daxcimo Ceja was murdered for an act that is completely legal in Colorado. 

https://www.live5news.com/2024/08/24/woman-with-unrestrained-hatred-child-predators-killed-dismembered-wanted-sex-offender-prosecutor-says/

 Woman with ‘unrestrained hatred’ for child predators killed, dismembered alleged wanted sex offender, prosecutor says

By Aspen Andrews and Akim Powell

Published: Aug. 24, 2024 at 6:39 PM CDT

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV/Gray News) - A Colorado woman who had an ‘unrestrained hatred’ for child predators will spend the rest of her life behind bars after she killed and dismembered an alleged wanted sex offender.

Authorities said 38-year-old Deka Simmons was sentenced to life in prison without parole after a two-year-long murder investigation.

In April 2022, Simmons was initially arrested for the murder of 48-year-old Daxcimo Ceja. His body had not been recovered at the time.

A year later, police received an anonymous tip about human remains being in a bag inside a drainage ditch. Officials positively identified the human remains as those of Ceja, KKTV reported.

Simmons was charged with first-degree murder after deliberation, violent crime with a weapon, violent crime causing death, tampering with physical evidence and tampering with a deceased human body.

Prosecutor Sharon Flaherty said in closing arguments that Simmons killed Ceja because he was a registered sex offender who had a relationship with a 17-year-old girl when he was 25, the Colorado Springs Gazette reported.

Ceja had a warrant out for his arrest for failing to register as a sex offender when he was killed, the outlet reported.

“(Simmons) has an unrestrained hatred for anyone who would molest a child,” Flaherty said.

Police said Simmons shot Ceja in a garage, dismembered his body, and stored it in a freezer before moving the remains in a van.

Officials linked Simmons to the murder through DNA from blood in the garage, the paper reported.

Simmons was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, an additional 24 years for tampering with a deceased body, and three more years for tampering with physical evidence.

https://gazette.com/news/courts/closing-arguments-heard-in-trial-of-colorado-springs-woman-accused-of-killing-dismembering-man/article_a8b84f2c-5f4b-11ef-8f98-77ed05fbcd68.html

...Flaherty described Simmons during closing arguments as a woman with an obsession over child molestation due to fears that her daughter was a victim of sex trafficking.

“(Simmons) has an unrestrained hatred for anyone who would molest a child,” Flaherty said, going on to describe it as a “fixation” and “paranoia” for Simmons....

...The prosecution during its closing argument highlighted numerous text threads between Simmons and others that, according to the prosecution, directly implicate her in the shooting. Viehman said in rebuttal that several witnesses claimed Simmons would later “brag” about killing Ceja...."