Who needs a police line-up when there’s Facebook?
Gay-bashing victim identifies
attacker through Facebook entry.
Using a Facebook profile, police arrested a suspect in an attack on the Georgetown University campus.
The victim searched through Facebook profiles to identify his attacker.
After the attack, the victim started looking on Facebook to see if he could find the person who attacked him, according to Lt. Alberto Jova of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit.
When he found a profile of someone who looked like his attacker, police investigated, then created a photo spread of possible suspects. The victim picked Cooney’s photo from the photo spread and Washington police worked with Georgetown University Public Safety officers to arrest him.
Jova said he’d never heard of a crime victim using Facebook to help police catch a suspect before.
You don’t expect the average thug to be bright enough to lie low. Why expect them to stay out of social networking meat markets?
Posted: Sat - September 29, 2007 at 02:17 PM