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Burglar Arrested After Checking Facebook During Robbery

by Terrence O'Brien on October 6, 2009 at 09:25 AM

The saddest part about this story is that this isn't the first time this has happened -- a burglar stops in the middle of his robbery to log on to his Facebook account from his victim's PC, leaving behind evidence leading to his swift arrest.

This time is was 26-year-old Italian man who was arrested after he broke into a home in Albano Laziale outside of Rome. According to the Telegraph, when police came to investigate the scene, after the 52-year-old victim reported the crime, they noticed the computer was on. When they pressed a key to bring the screen back to life, the browser was still open with Facebook loaded. When the victim told police he was not a member of the social networking service, the authorities realized the last person to log on to the machine was the burglar.

The police immediately went to the home of the last person who had logged into Facebook on the PC, recovered the stolen goods, and placed the man under arrest.

We're glad that the stolen property was recovered and that the suspect will spend some "quality" time in a cell with a guy named Tiny, but we can't help but wonder what was going through his mind. If we were robbing a house, you can bet we wouldn't be taking time to check up on our Facebook friends. [From: Telegraph]

Tags: burglar, crime, facebook, robbery, theft, top

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