BustedNewspaper.com / Mugshots.zone / RecentlyBooked.com, etc.

A formal removal demand now sits against Teabar Publishing, Inc., the North Carolina corporation that operates BustedNewspaper.com, Mugshots.zone, and RecentlyBooked.com. Signed by LeRoy Nellis, it demands that the company remove his name and photograph from those three domains and every affiliated or mirrored site — on the ground that the postings imply criminal conduct through material he calls “misleading, incomplete, or contextually distorted.”

The demand is reproduced here in full because it names, in full, who runs these three sites and what is being asked of them. The document is short. Its names and numbers are the point — and the point is that a man with no other shot at getting his name off those sites chose to put his demands in writing, signed and dated, addressed to the people actually responsible.

The publisher:

The demand identifies the company as Teabar Publishing, Inc., with a primary business address at 201 N James Dr, Emerald Isle, NC 28594, in Carteret County, North Carolina. It lists an additional address at 714 Cedar Point Blvd in Swansboro and a corporate filing address at 136 Hilltop Dr, also in Swansboro.

Two people are attached to the company. Elaine Teachey is named as Principal / Manager. Steven Craig Barbour is named as President and Registered Agent, per North Carolina corporate filings. The document carries a business phone, (252) 764-2453, and a corporate website, www.teabarpublishing.com.

The sites:

Three domains are named: BustedNewspaper.com, Mugshots.zone, and RecentlyBooked.com. The demand describes the rest of the network as other affiliated mugshot aggregation sites and mirrored domains — and it directs the removal not only at the business's three storefronts, but at the whole mirror structure built around them.

Why this matters:

Mugshot sites monetize pretrial records long before adjudication — often from arrests that ended in dismissal, dropped charges, or no charge at all. Their removals usually come down to two paths: a lawsuit, or a demand addressed directly to the people running the company. This one names the people, the addresses, the filings, and the contact points — and it goes to all of them at once, in one writing, signed, with a reply address demanded of the company itself.

“Misleading, incomplete, or contextually distorted.”

What the demand means:

A removal demand like this does not argue the case for him — it draws the line at what it says the company runs, at what it says the postings imply, and at what it says the company should do about them. If the claims are correct, the company is a for-profit mugshot aggregation built on pretrial records, collecting traffic on debts that have never been adjudicated. If the claims are wrong, the demand is still a public statement by the man most affected — set out with addresses, filings, and names, in a form anyone can read and anyone can verify.

What the Record Shows:

The demand is signed, dated, and addressed — to Teabar Publishing, Inc., to Elaine Teachey, and to Steven Craig Barbour — and it asks for exactly one thing: the removal of the postings across the sites they operate. Whether the sites comply rests with the company; the document itself is now part of the public record. What the page does not do — what no notice of demand ever does — is prove the underlying merits of the dispute. What it establishes is that the subject believes the postings are misleading, incomplete, or contextually distorted, that he wants them down, and that he is willing to put a name to that request in writing.