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Facebook links teens to break-in [DUH!!]
Post-Gazette.com ^ | December 22, 2011 | Sadie Gurman

Posted on 12/22/2011 4:37:12 AM PST by Glenn

The four young friends mugged for the camera, holding fistfuls of cash, candy and cigarettes, then posted the photos on Facebook for all to see.

Just one more example of a generation hooked on social media.

Except there was a problem.

Police said the teens stole the hefty loot -- worth more than $9,000 -- only an hour earlier from Elliott's Town Market, where the surveillance footage of them running through the closed store seemed damning enough.

Detectives on Wednesday said they had charged three of the juveniles -- two 14-year-olds and a 17-year-old -- and were searching for a fourth, 18-year-old Isaiah Cutler, in whose bedroom they snapped the photos and on whose Facebook page they smugly posted them.

"I've not seen anything like this in my 18 years," burglary Detective Valerie Milie said. "People post things on Facebook that they shouldn't, and once it's out there, it's out there."

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1 posted on 12/22/2011 4:37:13 AM PST by Glenn
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To: Glenn

They will get probation.Their Parents will buy off the store owners, and they will be heroes to their peers.


2 posted on 12/22/2011 4:41:25 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Glenn

Pittsburgh’s Amish community....up to no good as usual.


3 posted on 12/22/2011 4:43:46 AM PST by surroundedbyblue (Live the message of Fatima - pray & do penance!)
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To: Venturer
Her case got a boost the next day when concerned grandmother Darlean Brewer tipped police that her grandson, Tyron, had something to do with the caper, the complaint said.

Wow--grandma dropped the dime on the punk. Warning to teen hoodlumns: you may snooker your parents, but there's no sneaking anything past grandma. So be sure not to friend her on Facebook.
4 posted on 12/22/2011 4:52:39 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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To: Glenn

Not a bad haul for a couple kids. $8000+ in cash is more than most bank robbers get away with.


5 posted on 12/22/2011 5:39:46 AM PST by varyouga
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To: Glenn

Here’s another fun activity for kids!

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/teens-trashing-stores-viral-trend-15204414


6 posted on 12/22/2011 5:42:05 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

-——you may snooker your parents, ———

You assume facts not in evidence.

Parents implies a mother and a father. For sure there is no acting father. The grandmother is filling both roles since the mother abandoned her role when she turned all the WIC checks to her mother years ago


7 posted on 12/22/2011 5:47:28 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: Glenn

Just thinning the herd


8 posted on 12/22/2011 5:48:21 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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To: Glenn

Isn’t that what Facebook is for?


9 posted on 12/22/2011 6:02:51 AM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: Glenn

Here’s where I think we should take a page from Singapore and publicly cane the little twits.


10 posted on 12/22/2011 6:08:48 AM PST by NRA1995 (Obama's presidency is shovel-ready; let's bury it in 2012!)
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To: Glenn

I want to see the footage of them “running through the closed door”.


11 posted on 12/22/2011 6:10:34 AM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: Glenn
The Facebook looters:


12 posted on 12/22/2011 10:12:35 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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