AMHERST TWP. — An Amherst Township woman is facing charges after being accused of creating a fake MySpace account to get another woman in trouble.

Megan Spurlock, 20, was charged by the Lorain County Sheriff’s Office with obstructing official business, falsification and identity fraud.

According to the sheriff’s report, Spurlock came to the sheriff’s office on Dec. 8 with her mother, Veronica Spurlock, and 2-year-old daughter. Spurlock said she had a no-contact order through Oberlin Municipal Court against an Amherst woman.

The report went on to say Spurlock told the deputy that she was checking her e-mail on her MySpace account that day and found a profane, harassing message allegedly from the woman that had been sent the previous day.

The sheriff’s office issued a subpoena request form to MySpace for the subscriber information on what was allegedly the woman’s account as well as Spurlock’s account. The report said the investigation revealed that the IP address for the e-mail account from where the e-mail was sent was from a computer that has the same IP address as Spurlock, leading the sheriff’s office to the conclusion that Spurlock fraudulently created the e-mail account in order to get the other woman in trouble.

The case will be handled by Oberlin Municipal Court.

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