Cops crack Crofton beating using MySpace site

Three South River High School students were jumped as they walked to a friend's house in Crofton late on a recent Friday night.

Up to eight attackers kicked and punched one of the boys so badly they fractured the bone above his eye, broke the roof of his mouth and knocked out two of his teeth. The other two boys were badly beaten, too, while the attackers stole one boy's watch and cell phone and tried to take the others' wallets before being scared off when a passerby shined a flashlight on them and yelled for them to stop.

The victims recognized some of their attackers, but not all.

But Jon Carrier, the county police...