A lot of disturbing things have been broadcast on Facebook Live, and many users and experts have criticized the social media giant for being too lax on the content it allows. However, live videos of criminal acts can help police catch the bad guys faster — like when an alleged bike thief recently narrated his…

Facebook Live has been in the news lately for the shocking and violent crime that has been livestreamed on the platform. However, there’s an upside to the technology: sometimes criminals can use it to incriminate themselves. An 18-year-old Florida man posted a Facebook Live video on May 27 with two of his friends, bragging how…

A Tennessee criminal recently found out the hard way that over sharing on Facebook can carry a steep price. 41-year-old Malik First Born Allah Farrad, formerly Marvin Buckles, was sentenced last week to a 188-month federal prison sentence because of a single selfie. The ex-con was convicted of drug and gun charges in 2000, and…

A 45-year-old Ohio man named Donald “Chip” Pugh is wanted for failure to appear in court regarding a drunken driving case, and is also a person of interest in several other cases involving arson and vandalism. Thankfully for police, Pugh is more vain than your run-of-the-mill fugitive; when he saw his mug shot that police…

A 13-year-old girl in Splendora, Texas, was arrested after creating a fake Facebook profile and harassing her classmates, then threatening her entire hometown. The girl wrote to a classmate suffering from cancer that he “should have died,” and then posted “I am going to kill everyone in Splendora on July 13th.” Officials in the investigation…

A woman from West Franfort, Illinois, was arrested this week for posting a picture on Facebook of herself wearing a dress that she allegedly stole from a small store in the town. The woman, 27-year-old Danielle Saxton, allegedly stole the dress and several other items on July 11 from Morties Boutique, and was seen walking…

26-year-old Minnesota man Nicholas Wig is in jail for allegedly breaking into a home. Wig was caught in no small part because he logged in to his Facebook profile on the victim’s computer and forgot to log out before leaving with credit cards, cash and a watch. The thief also left a full outfit of…

The FBI apprehended an alleged Michigan bank robber this week because of a photo he posted to his Facebook page of himself posing with a sub machine gun that was brandished during a recent bank hold-up. According to investigators, alleged bank robber 21-year-old Jules Bahler robbed three banks over an eight-day period, ending with a…

A 24-year-old English woman, Michelle Chapman, was recently sentenced to 20 months in prison after bullying herself on her own Facebook page. She created multiple fake accounts and posted crude, hostile remarks on her personal Facebook page, with the purpose of framing her mother and stepfather. Chapman set up multiple profiles in the names of…

In December, it was discovered that an individual was posing as deceased Marine Matthew Pucino on both Facebook and a dating site. Police now believe that they have found the perpetrator behind the crime: 28-year-old New York man Brandon Ashraf. Ashraf actually reached out to Pucino’s sisters to alert them to the fake page after…