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'Drivin drunk' Facebook status sends 'hit and run' teen to jail
By Suzanne Choney
An 18-year-old in Oregon joked on Facebook about driving drunk and getting in a hit-and-run accident, then was arrested after "friends" saw the posting and reported it to police. No one was injured, thankfully, but two cars were damaged.
"We have used Facebook previously as an investigative tool, but this is the first time I believe we have arrested someone who posted they had committed the crime," Brad Johnston, deputy chief of police in Astoria, Ore., told NBC News on Friday.
Here's what Jacob Cox-Brown of Astoria wrote on his Facebook page on New Year's Day, not realizing he'd hit two vehicles, not just one:
Astoria police "have an active Social Media presence. It was a private Facebook message to one of our officers that got this case moving," said Johnston in an incident report file shared on the department's website — which included a screenshot of Cox-Brown's Facebook posting.
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By Suzanne Choney
An 18-year-old in Oregon joked on Facebook about driving drunk and getting in a hit-and-run accident, then was arrested after "friends" saw the posting and reported it to police. No one was injured, thankfully, but two cars were damaged.
"We have used Facebook previously as an investigative tool, but this is the first time I believe we have arrested someone who posted they had committed the crime," Brad Johnston, deputy chief of police in Astoria, Ore., told NBC News on Friday.
Here's what Jacob Cox-Brown of Astoria wrote on his Facebook page on New Year's Day, not realizing he'd hit two vehicles, not just one:
Drivin drunk... classsic 
but to whoever's vehicle i hit i am sorry.
but to whoever's vehicle i hit i am sorry.
Two of Cox-Brown's 656-plus friends on the social network took notice and separately contacted Astoria police to report what they'd seen.Astoria police "have an active Social Media presence. It was a private Facebook message to one of our officers that got this case moving," said Johnston in an incident report file shared on the department's website — which included a screenshot of Cox-Brown's Facebook posting.
MORE>> http://digitallife.today.com/_news/...acebook-status-sends-hit-and-run-teen-to-jail
