Posted on 09/22/2009 3:38:11 PM PDT by billorites
MARTINSBURG - The popular online social networking site Facebook helped lead to an alleged burglar's arrest after he stopped check his account on the victim's computer, but forgot to log out before leaving the home with two diamond rings.
Jonathan G. Parker, 19, of Fort Loudoun, Pa., was arraigned Tuesday one count of felony daytime burglary.
According to court records, Deputy P.D. Ware of the Berkeley County Sheriff's Department responded on Aug. 28 to the victim's home after she reported the burglary.
She told police that someone had broken into her home through a bedroom window.
There were open cabinets in her garage, and other signs of a burglar.
The victim later noticed that the intruder also used her computer to check his Facebook status, and his account was still open when she checked the computer.
The victim later noticed that she was missing two diamond rings from her dresser in the same room as her computer.
The two rings were worth more than $3,500, reports indicate.
During the investigation, a friend of the victim told her that he knew where Parker was staying, in the same area as the victim's house.
Police then went to the home and spoke with a friend of Parker's.
The man said Parker had stopped by his home occasionally, but he said the man didn't live there.
He also said that the night before the burglary, Parker asked him if he wanted to help break into the victim's home but he refused.
As of Tuesday evening, Parker remained in custody at the Eastern Regional Jail on $10,000 bail.
If convicted he faces one to 10 years in prison.
- Staff writer Edward Marshall can be reached at (304) 263-8931, ext. 182, or emarshall@journal-news.net.
He would have gotten away, if it wasn’t for that darn facebook.
Lol!!!
If a persons going to follow a career path of being a low life piece of dirt, do they put that on their Facebook? What does he post, that he’s feeling creepy and stinky?
I love dumb criminals!
My bet is robbing someone is not a good segue to asking them to friend you on Facebook.
The irony/crazy part is that I have seen three articles/blogs about this and none autolink to Facebook.
Myspace is so oldskool!
you know our generation is going down hill when we can’t even steal properly I fear for the republic.
It reminds me of when I was working and some dumb kid brought an x-box card to my counter and he was trying to hide a hundred dollar xbox wireless card under the counter so I couldn’t see it .... of course he wa holding it against a GLASS case where it was plainly visible.
Stupid criminal tricks.
Once again proving the IQ level of most people on facebook. The place where 12 and 15 year old little girls claim to be 18 and are actually 20+ year old cops. May the cops win!!! LOL
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