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Robber Arrested After Checking Facebook During Break-in, Then Going Back To Steal Computer
We've reported on many, many instances where people have been arrested after bragging about their crimes on social networking services. Back in March, a couple was charged with a series of crimes after posting a photo of a stolen ring on Facebook, while earlier this month, two men were arrested after one of them shared a photo of himself with a stolen car on the... Read more » Angry Mob Shows Up At Animal Abuser’s House After Cruel Video Hits Facebook
Animal abuse is absolutely horrific – and luckily for this dog who was abused by his owner, the social media world agrees. A man has been arrested on animal abuse charges after a video of himself beating a dog with a pole was filmed and put on Facebook. The video was shot from a neighbor’s house and shows the man kicking a white Staffordshire bull terrier and... Read more » Man Writes Fake Facebook Post About Kidnapping Ex-Girlfriend, Arrested On Drug Charges
If you’re abusing drugs in your home, you probably wouldn’t want to create any reason for the police to pay you a visit, but alas, criminals are sometimes really, really dumb. Don’t they know that people will see what they post on Facebook? Instead of keeping a low profile, a 38-year-old drug user from Chicago posted something to his Facebook Wall that lead... Read more » Teacher Under Investigation After Calling Students Inbred On Facebook
Whether or not teachers should have public Facebook accounts is a much debated subject and many teachers are forbidden to become friends with students, which makes a lot of sense in certain cases but not in others. For every teacher who uses the service to benefit and help their students, there are handfuls that abuse it. Recently, a governing body of a primary... Read more » Boy Arrested After Friend Posts On Facebook Wall Looking For Drugs
Police monitor Facebook – that’s just something that every drug wielding, underage partygoer needs to know. Sadly, they don’t. Teens are constantly putting way, way too much information on the social networking site and are completely shocked when they actually get in trouble. Part of the reason many people hide Wall posts from the public is because you can... Read more » Crime Analyst Who Posed As Chief Inspector Exposed After Facebook Photos Surface
Facebook gives away a whole lot of criminals, but none more bizarre than this fake cop, who really should have known better. Paul Hodgson was employed under contract by the Manx police as a crime analyst when he posed as a chief inspector. He didn’t use his fake position for power or authority; instead he borrowed a marked car from the Ramsey police station,... Read more » Victim Uses GPS Tracking And Facebook To Catch Laptop Thief
Modern technology makes it much easier to find people who are lost. We have GPS on our phones and use geo-tagging services on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. We even check in to places using Foursquare. Needless to say, our digital footprint is probably much larger than we imagine, which is why it’s not completely surprising that this laptop thief from... Read more » Facebook Friend Tricks Woman Out Of $20K
A New Jersey woman was allegedly tricked out of almost $20,000 by an old friend she reconnected with on Facebook. According to reports, the 38-year-old woman reconnected with a Florida man she’s known for 20 years on the social network. However, this man certainly didn’t act like a real friend. He asked her to wire him $19,933.24 as an investment in a... Read more » Woman Arrested After Trying To Sell Newborn On Facebook For $15,000
Facebook is a service that’s used to bring people together – to help long lost relatives find each other and to help old friends reconnect. In July we heard about the son who found his birth mother on Facebook 36 years after she gave him up for adoption and in September a son who was stolen by his father during a custody battle found his mother through the social... Read more » Man Arrested After Hitting His Wife Because She Didn’t Like His Facebook Status
The Like button is typically seen as a positive Facebook feature that’s pretty hard to argue about unless of course you use it sarcastically, which we’ve probably all done on occasion. Messages, comments and chats are where the real stuff happens – where most arguments that spill into real life begin. On this occasion there was no chat that escalated into a... Read more » 
