From the Havre de Grace Police Department:
On April 13, 2017, patrol officers from the Havre de Grace Police Department were contacted by Baltimore City Police about a possible sex offense that occurred in Havre de Grace in February of 2017.
The victim who is a juvenile was interviewed by Havre de Grace Detectives and through that interview, a rape investigation was started.
Detectives were able to identify Craig Lascola as the suspect. The investigation led to a search warrant being conducted in the 200 block of Secretariat Drive, Havre de Grace where Craig Lascola resides.
With the evidence, obtained detectives were able to obtain an arrest warrant for 2nd-degree rape, 2nd-degree sex offense, and 2nd-degree assault for Craig Lascola and on September 26, 2017, Craig Lascola was arrested on that warrant.
Craig Lascola was transported to the Harford County Detention center without further incident.
Bulle Rock is now home to child rapists, drug dealers, wife beaters, mortgage defaulters and old people peering out their windows on the lookout for covenant violations.
Big words for someone using a fake name. No one named Sam Adams lives in Bulle Rock. What’s your real name, buddy?
It’s very doubtful anyone is going to give you their real birth name, especially a trolling comment on the internet where anyone with an internet connection can make a comment.
It also makes a lot of sense. I would have no idea what your intentions would be if you had my real birth name.
Are you planning to show up at my employer, or residence with premeditated criminal action in your mind?
That is priceless Chloe Jameson! Calling out someone who’s using a fake name…. while using a fake name yourself. I’m sure that the irony is lost on you sir. Loser. Bully. Although you do seem to know who all the residents of Bulle Rock are. heh. Enjoy the continuing downhill ride for Bulle Rock property values. “don’t bother me with this talk of assault…… They just changed their shutter-color without approval…. this is an outrage!”
It could be worse, you could live in an incomplete housing development that seems will never be what was imagined, aka the former beech tree golf club.
A blind man could have seen that a lot of New Jersey and New York people weren’t going to live in an Aberdeen school district.
Oh well, get loans and can’t pay debt. The life of a developer. I guess that’s why so many construction companies own lots.
The covenant breakers are the worse. I’m sure glad I don’t live in Bulle Rock. The community that keeps giving. I’m sure glad Bulle Rock has their own valet service. Life of crime can be made easier when covenant breakers get tired. Lol.
Wow Sam Adams and Bulle Rock, you sure sound bitter. I don’t live in Bulle Rock either, but why are you condemning an entire community because of actions from an individual. No community is exempt from crime or bad people living in them. That doesn’t make the whole community bad. BTW, I’m pretty sure Bulle Rock does not have a valet service just because you can drive up to the front door. The community is a mixed one (not just old people). I know many who live there and they devote a lot of time and money and effort to do great things for the city of Havre de Grace. Bad people can choose to live wherever they want (even child rapists). I have a rapist living on my street. So don’t condemn the entire population for deplorable actions of a few.
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First, I want to thank the juvenile for coming forward and speaking to the law which ultimately resulted in this low lifes arrest. Second, I am sorry this happened to you. Keep your head held high and go forward in life positive and strong. Now…all over the country you have mentally disturbed individuals living in America in all neighborhoods, status and places. For instance, Anthony Weiner who lost everything for good reasons. Look around regardless of neighborhoods and those you believe you know…report – report – report All signs of wrong doings in every facet. Stay strong young person and thank you again for coming forward and getting this POS off the street and hopefully out of scociety.
…pending comment from SoulCrusher regarding his legal opinion on Search Warrants, etc…etc…etc…
LazyDog, did the police use a dog on the curtilage of his home or an area appurtenant to his home to acquire the probable cause for the search warrant? If they did then I’m going to have to say the search was illegal. However, I think we both can see that a court administrator DID find some sort of probable cause to establish a valid reason for issuing an invasive warrant. I can’t imagine what they found in his house to establish probable cause for an arrest warrant, but clearly they did. He must have kept some sort of momento or something. Even though an arrest warrant was issued, the courts released him on his own recognizance following his arrest, meaning they do NOT believe this man is a flight risk or a risk to the community. Remember, LazyDog, you have to be someone who uses CDS for all your rights to be stolen by the government. The government is perfectly fine with murderers, thieves, rapists,child molesters and terrorists having rights, but you have none if you are found with more than 11 grams of marijuana or any amount of any other CDS, even if the findings were due to an illegal search. This is obviously because the government believes crimes of CDS are far more dangerous than the crimes of murder, theft, rape, child molestation or terrorism. Once again the Harford County Judiciary has failed the people of Harford County and the State of Maryland.
In response to the comments here, I just wanted to provide some clarification/facts about this case with hopes to raise awareness about his threat to females in the area and potentially prevent another assault. I urge you to share this information with your daughters/wives/family members/friends and any other female who could be at risk since he has been released from jail.
1. The accused man, Craig Lascola, has been harassing and stalking (at the very least) and violently sexually assaulting (per the most recent news story) up to hundreds or even thousands of local underage girls and young women for at least the last decade in the areas of or around Perry Hall, Kingsville, White Marsh, Bel Air and most recently Havre de Grace and Aberdeen.
2. I know this because I am one of those women, and I want to share information that may protect others. The first time I encountered him was over ten years ago and the most recent was just two months ago at Aberdeen Wal Mart and then a nearby gas station he probably followed me to after I left Wal Mart. As far as I can gather, his advances are always unsolicited and mostly unwelcome and he misrepresents himself by using fake names (usually identifying himself as Cameron or Jake but I have recently heard others from women who were victimized by him) and he typically claims to be around 22 years old and a college student. Sometimes he claims to be a student at Towson University and claims to be a “History major” and other times he says he attends Salisbury. He sometimes claims that he works at Power Plant Live in Baltimore City or a “high end restaurant downtown” or that he primarily cares for his sick mother.
3. His mother was in fact unwell and has recently passed away from ALS. SHE was the resident of the Bulle Rock community. He moved into her residence there either prior to her death or shortly after and promptly took up his pattern of harassing and stalking women. This time in the Havre de Grace and Aberdeen areas. A quick online search reveals that his father is also deceased, as well as a sister. He has one living sibling, a sister, who is married and resides in Perry Hall. It is unknown if she associates with him or is aware of his freaking nutty behavior.
4. His victims report similar stories of being approached by him in public locations over the including their places of employment (where they were waitresses, mall store clerks, cashiers at gas stations) and sometimes he is a fellow employee (typically in area restaraunts with one of the more recent being Laurrapin in Havre de Grace). In previous years (8-10 years ago) he reportedly followed teen girls through malls (note: he would have been in his 20’s at this time and the women I spoke to report having been between the ages of 13-18) and he was banned from at least two area malls for harassment and stalking, including White Marsh Mall. According to news reports, he recently claimed in court that he is unemployed and wants to open a bar and restaurant. Yeah. I bet he does…if anyone works for planning and zoning of the liquor board, please take down his name now and beware in the future. For all we know, he may have inherited enough from his parents estates to actually do something like this, which would essentially bring potential victims right to him (where they would of course have access to alcohol). At least one woman shared a story of having been taken advantage of by him while she was intoxicated.
5. MD Judiciary Case Search reveals at least five peace orders against him over the last five years. One woman told me that two others have been expunged, though I have no way of confirming that. Local news also reported a former harassment charge against him. There would probably be A LOT more records of reports against him but many of us who were victimized by him did not have his real name or age, making it nearly impossible to report his criminal stalking and harassment. When his photo surfaced in the news, a lot of women had a sinking feeling in their gut…myself included. The challenge with getting him held accountable or criminally responsible has been that while his behavior is overwhelmingly creepy and morally screwed up, it is not always unlawful and when it is, it is nearly impossible to prove. For instance, he has allegedly made overt comments to women while the walked through parking lots, repeatedly yet randomly “show up” at public places they were shopping or eating or getting gas, after being rejected by them he would be sure to make contact with and come onto all of a woman’s female friends and if he manages to get a girls phone number or social media contacts (particularly Snapchat) he would send unsolicited photos of himself to include pictures of his stomach area and/or genitals and repeatedly text and call, growing enraged if he didn’t get a response he was seeking or if he girl blocked his phone number or told him off. For those unfamiliar with the Snapchat app, one of its functions includes deleting photos received after an alloted amount of time. You can imagine why that is one of his favorite means of contacting victims.
6. The child victim of the recent news reports who was allegedly raped was also allegedly violently assaulted by him. Sadly, based on his patterns of behavior and what seems like escalations, I would be surprised if she is his first rape victim or even his first underage rape victim. He has long targeted girls under the age of 18 (no matter how old he was at the time he approached them). Many women I have spoken with report having told him that they were minors and/or that they were not allowed to speak to men or give out their contact information, were too young to date, their parents wouldn’t allow them to speak to him, etc and almost all of those women report that he would continue his pursuit regardless.
7. The stories of encounters with him have a general pattern of beginning with unsolicited compliments and/or bold requests for contact information. Women and girls who politely decline often report that he continues his efforts to obtain information (sometimes asking strange questions such as their height or weight) and often opening conversation by either suggesting that they “look familiar” or asking if they have a twin, go to Towson University, or if they have a boyfriend or husband (if they say yes, he does not stop but instead usually responds that the man (boyfriend or husband) is lucky and then continues to ask for contact info sometimes asking something along the lines of, “well doesn’t he allow you to have friends?” or asking if they have any single friends because he’s “tired of meeting women in the bar scene”. He sometimes follows the women through stores or waits at their cars in parking lots of their places of employment or schools they attend. There are many reports that he stalked female students at Harford Community College and I have seen copies of the notice the campus provided students, warning them to “be on alert” for him, providing his description and car details at the time. He was reportedly banned from the campus for misrepresenting himself as a student and then harassing women on school property. Many area women have attempted to warn others just as I am doing right now, by posting on comment boards and social media sites dating as far back as seven years. As far as I can find, other than being slapped with peace orders, he has never faced criminal prosecution for his ongoing harassment, stalking and potentially other sexual assaults. Additionally, Facebook removed a woman’s warning post about him several months ago, which had been shared by many in order to warn their friends and had garnered hundreds of comments from other women who all shared similar stories (and often tagged multiple friends who would then also share stories about his unwelcome advances). It is not clear why the posts were removed by Facebook, but it is unsettling to think that the removed post could have potentially prevented the 13-year-old girl’s rape by this scumbag.
8. He has been known to drive a black Honda and/or an Infiniti. He has made advances at women from vehicles as well, pulling up alongside them at stop lights and rolling down his window to ask how he knew them, or some variation of that same “you look familiar” line. Several women have shared stories about how he drove too close to their car in order to create an interaction and one woman described how he nearly ran her down in his car in a parking lot in order to make contact with her. Yet another area woman shared via Facebook how he continually told her to get in his car while she was walking through a parking lot, to which she declined repeatedly until he became angry and yelled slurs at her and called her names before driving off.
9. Another element to his typical pattern is that he demonstrates aggression or rage toward his targets if he is met with rejection. This is an extremely scary fact. Current news reports detail how the minor rape victim from Essex reported that he physically assaulted her when she attempted to fight him off the rape, punching her in the arms and legs. Women and girls who report rejecting him (telling him to leave them alone, calling him a creep, etc) were met with immediate anger and rage ranging from reports of him calling them derogatory names, cursing at them, commenting on their weight, or even going as far as threatening to find them and harm them (using GPS on a phone when rejected via text message in one report) to threatening to kill them based on another woman’s recollection of an encounter with this man.
10. He may not be targeting women alone. There are unconfirmed reports that he has a female acquaintance or associate that may be helping him lure women to him for access. Please be aware of this potential threat.
11. Several women report having asked their male friends/boyfriends/husbands to phone him or confront him in order to make him stop, to which he reportedly backs off quickly and moves to another target. Men who have worked with him in area restaraunts or have been in area bars where he has been a customer report memories of him being kicked out or banned for harassing women or reported drug use (specifically cocaine use, according to one persons account).
12. Since relocating from the Perry Hall and/or Kingsville areas to Havre de Grace, his areas of solicitation seem to be Aberdeen Wal Mart, Royal Farms in Aberdeen and Havre de Grace, Laurrapin (where he was allegedly fired for harassing and stalking female colleagues, according to a woman who claims to be one of those women), and the Route 40 corridor between Edgewood and Havre de Grace where women have reported that he has watched them walk to their vehicles and they feared or had reason to believe he may have followed them while they were leaving a local business.
13. Lastly, if you are also a victim of Craig’s, we have started a private Facebook Group by the name of “Victims of Craig Lascola Support Group” and there are many women in that group including myself who are willing to listen without judgement to anything you want to share.
14. If you would like to support us by attending his yet-to-be-announced sentencing hearing/trial so the Judge and Prosecutor are unable to ignore the magnitude of this Predator’s threat to our community, I have started a campaign with shirt sales and all proceeds will be donated to Harford County SARC. https://www.bonfire.com/victims-and-survivors-of-craig-lascola/
Well, the Courts already released him on his own recognizance. Apparently they do NOT think this guy is a threat at all. There are over 200 members of that Victims of Craig Lascola Support Group. Wow, 216 women that are afraid of this guy and have banded together to support each other. That says a lot and does give some validity to the book you just posted on the Dagger.
I’d be willing to bet that the number of women you are referring to (in the support group on Facebook) does not represent even 1/3 of the women he has stalked, harassed or assaulted over the years. He is persistent and obsessive. When he’s hit with a peace order, he simply moves to the next handful of targets. And I get it-my previous post was lengthy. But if that information saves even one more girl or woman from being stalked or sexually assaulted by this man, it was worth the risk of annoying any readers who may not be interested in public safety.
Please don’t take my comment the wrong way. I’ve rarely seen a comment quite as long as you wrote, but in no way did I mean to actually make fun of it. I get it. Sometimes it takes a long post to actually put everything out there that needs to be said…..
I think this may have been the one who took advantage of a vulnerable minor in havre de grace.
contact your state legislators, There is a big problem with the sex offender rulings and who can do what with who. The age of consent is 16 years old, but they are not yet an adult. I have contacted the states attorney about this matter in regards to a vulnerable 16 year old who has been taken advantage of by an adult, first I contacted local law enforcement and they said that the laws for a 16 year old they can basically do what they want. I guess this means get exploited by a 22 year old or 25 year old. I said the family member is vulnerable and has a record of mental health issues and has some disabilities. the state attorney said they were at the age of consent. we need to change the law.
I guess maybe if they are a vulnerable non adult, but the sex offender laws were already tweaked to prevent persecution of young people who were dating in High School and similar circumstances. I in no way wish to go back to the days where young men are being persecuted for falling in love with young ladies who are a few years apart in age. It was horrible when a young person was sent to jail for being at the mercy of there sex glands, even when the so called victim was willing. Very willing. Quite frankly, it should be against the law for the underage to solicit an adult. This does happen and is just as wrong as the reverse. Maybe if they are a vulnerable non adult. Maybe. I guess it should really be a question of competence regarding both parties. Let the current law stand. Isn’t there already a vulnerable non adult clause on the books?
I am providing the most recent information available, for those following this situation:
1. The Support Group for his victims on Facebook is now “secret” and therefore not searchable. If you are in fact a victim and would like to join this group for support, to share your story without judgement, or for recommendations to local resources for counseling and legal support, feel free to reach out to me. The group has made every attempt to increase the member screening process for security reasons. There are alleged victims who have reported being threatened/warned that they could face legal repercussions (“slander/defamation”) for any public posts about this man. That said, I will continue to share factual information (as you will find below) because I’m not going to be bullied out of sharing information that could prevent a young girl or woman from being harassed, stalked or assaulted by a known offender.
2. The accused has recently been seen driving a silver Nissan Maxima. It has been reported that he sometimes drives his deceased mother’s vehicle, a black Honda Pilot with various stickers on the back.
3. According to various citizen reports, he has been seen in the areas of Essex, Dundalk, Box Hill/Abingdon and Havre de Grace since his release on the rape charges. People have reported that he has been seen in public multiple times with a young woman accompanying him, in which she was driving and he was passenger of a silver sedan. One person reports the woman is his “girlfriend”. It is unknown whether she is aware of or affiliated with the case against him.
4. Multiple homeowners within the gated community of Bulle Rock in Havre de Grace have reported that residents who live in the same condo building as the accused held an informational meeting to discuss the charges and public safety concerns on Tuesday October 3rd. A representative of the Havre de Grace Police Department reportedly attended this meeting and encouraged anyone who has been stalked, harassed or experienced any criminal behavior to file a police report within their local jurisdiction.
5. If you are reading this, please speak to your female family members and friends about the risk of being targeted by a predator. Also, please make sure that they know that in the state of Maryland, there is no statute of limitations for felony offenses (and rape is a felony offense).
6. Additional details about the accused man’s pattern have emerged from stories of women who have had the courage to speak up. In addition to confronting women and teens and asking for their snapchat user names, he has reportedly also made contact with young women by leaving notes for them at their places of employment, using his most common alias “Cameron” along with a fake age (typically 22 or 24) and his snapchat user name (for which he has multiple). His communications typically come in rapid fire messages (texts or snapchats) and girls/women report that if they do not respond to his messages immediately, he will often phone them repeatedly and sometimes leaves angry voice mails. Some have reported that if he knows their place of employment, he has then attempted to phone them at work or show up at the end of their shift to wait at the door of their employment or by their car for them. He is reportedly aggressively flirtatious and disgregards personal boundaries/space and women and girls report him as being initially very charming.
7. A local young mother recently told me that he followed her home from the park in the area of Havre de Grace, watching her, but never making contact. Others have reported that they were also followed to their home but he did not make contact. Multiple women have said that they believe he was attempting to obtain information on where they live and/or work by following them.
8. He has reportedly often used a line such as, “do I know you from somewhere?” Or “you look so familiar, where do you go to school?” in an effort to obtain more personal details about those he is targeting.
9. Since my last update, another young woman has shared a story about him approaching her and making contact on the campus of Essex Community College (my last post indicated he was formerly banned from Harford Community College for harassing and stalking young women there as well).
10. A young woman shared a video with me, capturing what she described as his second attempt to obtain her phone number (in the video a man who appears to be the accused rapist is talking to her from his car through a window, as he is pulled alongside her car) when she declined, he offered to pay her for her phone number, in which she also declined. He is seen smiling in the video as he offers her “a dollar”.
11. He reportedly owns and sometimes wears university clothing from multiple local schools. It is possible he wears these clothes in attempts to further misrepresent himself as an area college student. When clean-shaven, he reportedly has the ability to appear much younger than his current age of 37. Women have reported believing he was in his 20’s when he first approached them and several report trading contact information or even going on a first date with him before becoming concerned throughout the date that he appeared much older up-close. A woman also reported that she grew concerned on her first (and only) date with him when she noticed inconsistencies in details about his identity (in one case telling her he was 22 and later claiming to be 24) she reports that she now knows that he was in his 30’s at the time.
12. He has reportedly been banned from various local establishments for reasons that allegedly include running up tabs in which he paid with a credit card and then later disputed the validity of the charge (this reportedly happened multiple times before he was banned from one establishment) and for harassing or stalking female staff.
13. One woman reports that he told her he owns a handgun and that it is registered to either his father (public records indicate his father is deceased) or brother (no public record of a brother) he reportedly told this woman that the handgun is “locked up” at his house. It was not clear whether this took place during the time he lived in Kingsville or his current residence in Havre de Grace. There have been no known reports on whether he is familiar with how to use a firearm. There have also been no reports that I’m aware of that include his use or threat of use of a weapon.
14. Multiple women who report that he threatened them physically when they attempted to end communications with him or turned down his physical advances. These women report being scared and paranoid following his threats.
15. Multiple women who report having confronted him about his erratic or obsessive behavior claim he offered up variations of a “sob story” sharing the toll of caring for his ailing/dying mother who had ALS (in one report, he told a woman he was caring for his dying father). He has also allegedly shared other sympathy-inducing stories in an attempt to manipulate victims (and likely also the general public) from coming forward/sharing their stories of his alleged criminal behavior. A female Facebook user reports that when she publically posted details of her frightening personal experience with him on Facebook months ago, her story recieved thousands of “shares” from other users and illicited countless comments from other women with similar stories about the same man. She reports that she felt pressured to remove the original post when she was contacted and informed that he was threatening suicide. She said she did not want to feel in anyway responsible for his death if he did take his own life, so she removed the post detailing her story. After the recent charges against him including rape of a minor girl, she has once again come forward along with many other Facebook users who have questioned whether the original post (had it not been deleted) have had the exposure necessary to potentially prevent the alleged rape of the 13-year-old victim from Essex.
16. Various people who attended high school with Craig Lascola have recounted a story about a trip he took to New Orleans with a male friend named “Jason”. Multiple people who claim to have known both men at the time say that Jason died on that trip and Craig returned home alone and didn’t have much information about what had happened to share with his family and friends. One Facebook user identifying themselves as “Jason’s cousin” recalled many unanswered questions surrounding the death and Craig’s behavior when he returned struck family and friends of the deceased as “strange”. While it was allegedly reported that Jason died of a drug overdose, friends and family claim that while he enjoyed drinking alcohol, he was not known to use drugs.
16. Law enforcement familiar with the rape case predict Craig Lascola will hire a high-powered defense attorney, stating there is reason to believe he has the financial resources to do so. Public records indicate that he has been represented in past cases by Baltimore-based attorney Raphael Santini.
17. It is likely that none of this information will be considered in court when he faces the rape charges. A legal professional familiar with the case has indicated that nearly all of this information (if not all of it) is inadmissible in court.
18. I’ve been told Judge Mimi Cooper presided over his bail hearing and released him on personal recognizance. One local law professional confirmed that bail or recognizance can be revoked by a Judge if the accused is considered a flight risk or a threat to public safety. Limited informational can be made available to a Judge making the bail decision (basically, they look at previous criminal charges for the individual) and make a determination.
19. Unless for some reason the Judge rescinds personal recognizance on these charges, he remains free. Knowing this, I encourage you to be aware for yourselves and the young girls and women in your lives. And again, if you would like to support the victims of this man (and especially the 13-year-old victim who will undoubtedly be feeling a great deal of pressure as court dates get closer) please join all of us negatively impacted by him, outside the court house in bel air. Feel dree to wear a red shirt in solidarity.
Follow up: I apologize for any spelling and grammar errors in my post. I’m typing on a phone.
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