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Graffiti vandal Cyrus Yazdani aka. "Buket" became somewhat of an Internet sensation after posting videos of his handiwork on Los Angeles walls, buses, even one of him "tagging" up on the side of highway overpass. The videos garnered nearly 500,000 views on YouTube, but unfortunately for Yazdani they also caught the attention of the LAPD who arrested him and charged him with five counts of felony vandalism. Yazdani please guilty to one count and accepted responsibility for the other four. He was sentence to three years and eight months in prison and ordered to pay $117,196 in restitution.![Chris_Crego]()
Chris Crego, on the run from police in New York, was arrested in Indiana after police say he all but turned himself in by posting his workplace on his MySpace and Facebook pages. Crego, 39, was arrested last month at the tattoo parlor where he was working in Terre Haute. He had been wanted since he failed to show up for a sentencing hearing after pleading guilty in the fall to assault. He was also charged with drunken driving, drug possession and using a BB gun to kill birds. Indiana police posted a thank-you note on Crego's Facebook page saying: "It was due to your diligence in keeping us informed that now you are under arrest."![William_T__Bogan_1]()
William T. Bogan was arrested after posting a YouTube video of himself telling people to beat up another man and take his wallet during an altercation in the parking lot of a Florida bar in March 2009. Bogan was arrested and charged with solicitation to commit strong armed robbery. In December, he was sentenced to three to six months probation.![Daniel_J__Gill_1]()
Daniel Gill was arrested on burglary charges in January after allegedly trying to sell the equipment he stole from an Oregon extermination company on Craigslist. “In this case it was one of the business owners that went on Craigslist and was shopping around to see if she could find her property on Craigslist, and lo and behold she found it," Linn County Sheriff Tim Mueller told FoxNews.com. "We were able to send them out there and serve a search warrant and found all kinds of good stuff there out there -- that he'd been stealing not only from that neighbor but other neighbors as well!" he said. According to Mueller, Gill has indicated he wants to take a plea bargain and is scheduled for sentencing March 23. He could get up to 36 months in prison.![Maxi_Sopo]()
Maxi Sopo was living the dream of a fugitive abroad -- kicking back on the beaches of Cancun by day, partying in the clubs by night -- until he did two things that are never a good idea when you're on the run from authorities: He started posting Facebook updates about how much fun he was having — and added a former Justice Department official to his list of friends. Because of that indiscretion, the Associated Press reported, the 26-year-old native of Cameroon is now in a Mexico City jail awaiting extradition to the United States on bank fraud charges.![Jonathan G. Parker]()
Jonathan G. Parker was arrested and charged with burglary last September after police say a woman found her Pennsylvania home ransacked and her jewelry stolen -- and then found Parker's Facebook account open on her home computer. Police say the 19-year old checked his account during the break-in and forgot to log out. Parker faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.![Robert_Powell]()
Robert Powell, 22, was arrested in January 2007 for the murder of Joseph Duprey, his friend since the sixth grade, after he posted pictures of Duprey on his MySpace account next to the words "rest in peace" and "ltm" ("live through me") before Duprey's death was even reported to police. Florida police said the dispute was over a gun Powell had borrowed from Duprey. Powell was subsequently charged with the deaths of two other friends, Jason Blake and Kenneth Blain, both of whom were killed in 2006 and whose pictures appeared beside Duprey's on Powell's MySpace page. Powell was convicted of first-degree murder and is currently serving a life sentence.![Christopher_Tyrone_Young]()
Christopher Tyrone Young was arrested in San Diego in February 2009 for allegedly using Craigslist to prostitute a 17-year-old girl he met on MySpace. Police say the 28-year-old Florida man contacted the girl four months earlier, promised make her a "star," gave her a bus ticket from Florida to Las Vegas and then brought her Orange County, Calif., where he had her work as a prostitute. Young is charged with one count of sex trafficking of children and faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in federal prison if convicted.![Colleen LaRose]()
Colleen LaRose was charged this month with conspiring with jihadist fighters and pledging to commit murder in the name of a Muslim holy war, after allegedly trying to recruit and solicit finances for Muslim terrorists via Islamic Internet forums, Facebook and YouTube — and eventually moving overseas to try to kill an artist she perceived as an enemy to Islam.![Romand_Brooks]()
Romand Brooks, a convicted felon, was arrested in February 2009 after allegedly posting photos of himself on MySpace with a revolver and a sawed-off shotgun. Police reportedly found the stock of the shotgun in a closet in Brooks' Indiana home and its barrel hidden inside a speaker. Brooks was convicted of possession of a firearm by a felon in January and sentenced to eight years in prison.![Sandra Venery]()
Sandra Venery was arrested in 2007 and charged with one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, after she posted a video on MySpace of her toddler daughter trying to light a cigarette in her mouth. The person behind the camera also coaxed the toddler to say, "Give me the rent," followed by a curse word -- an attempt to imitate a skit the comedy Web site Funnyordie.com. Venery's lawyer said the mother of six might have displayed poor judgment, but her actions were not criminal. A Virginia judge said if Venery stayed out of trouble for a year, the misdemeanor charge against her could be dropped.Caught Web-Handed
Law enforcement agencies are increasingly using social media to fight crime – and some criminals are making that task very easy.
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