Chris Crego: Study in Dumbassery

If you are 39 and are into face piercing, hunting, and tattoos, and like to run from the law, don’t put your new place of business on MySpace and think you have outwitted the cops. They have Google too.

From CBS here:

It seems pretty basic: if you’re running from the law, don’t keep updating your Facebook status. Apparently Chris Crego didn’t get the message.

Crego was arrested for assault in the fall of 2009 stemming from a bar fight in Lockport, NY, a little north of Buffalo. Crego pled guilty, but didn’t show for sentencing. Police issued a warrant for his arrest but he’d already left the state.

No problem. Lockport Police Capt. Richard Podgers told CNN that detectives started looking for Crego on the Internet and quickly uncovered not only a Facebook page but also a MySpace account.

Crego posted his current residence as Terre Haute, Ind., and his place of employment, a tattoo parlor called Body Art Ink. He even included his work hours!

There’s more. Crego also proudly displayed the wanted poster of him that had been published in the Lockport paper.

Lockport police contacted U.S. Marshals in Indiana, who easily tracked Crego down Feb. 3. He was being held on a preliminary charge of escape, with a bond of $25,000.

Thanks to Trench for the story.