13 Facebook Posts That Got People Arrested

Facebook wall posts, photos, messages, events pages and more can be helpful tools for authorities tracking a suspect, serving as key evidence in criminal cases. Recently, it's become more and more common for police to turn to the social network during investigations.

Check out 13 posts that got people arrested (below). Do you think these arrests were fair? Cast your votes and let us know in the comments. Then, check out our previous list of Facebook posts that got suspects nabbed, as well as our slideshow of Facebook posts that got people fired. And for good measure, take a look through our helpful list of 13 things you should never post on Facebook.

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In December 2010, a former New York EMT, Mark Musarella, pleaded guilty to charges of misconduct and disorderly conduct, according to the AP. "Prosecutors say Musarella responded to a March 30, 2009, emergency call in Staten Island, where he snapped a picture of a woman who had been strangled. He then posted the image on [Facebook], the AP also writes.

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In December 2010, a former New York EMT, Mark Musarella, pleaded guilty to charges of misconduct and disorderly conduct, according to the AP. "Prosecutors say Musarella responded to a March 30, 2009, emergency call in Staten Island, where he snapped a picture of a woman who had been strangled. He then posted the image on [Facebook], the AP also writes.

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[by-the-sea-]

10:22 PM on 09/07/2011

I hate Facebook.

[rosnik]

07:59 PM on 09/07/2011

Well…I see it but I don’t believe it. How are some people so STUPID!?

[Cindy Russell444]

07:50 PM on 09/05/2011

I guess when these brilliant souls were hatched the supply of "common sense" was on back-order. LOL

[JMHHACKER]

06:28 PM on 09/05/2011

Well Darwin at work yet again...Let the natural chain of events weed out the bottom dwellers I say. Whether its FB, Twitter, commenting on a story or YouTube etc....one by one they will be taken away to our finest prisons! NO MERCY

[skyslimit]

04:54 AM on 09/03/2011

Too bad Facebook got so mainstream. I remember when it was only college students that were allowed to create accounts. This trash would never have been caught mucking up the community.

[oenophile1]

12:44 PM on 09/08/2011

You think that college students are an exclusive club? .....naive

[skyslimit]

04:13 AM on 09/11/2011

must not have made it to college. try harder next time.

[nrw238]

01:51 PM on 09/14/2011

LOL...a good portion of college students are no different than these idiots.

[Ruthvick Divecha]

01:11 AM on 09/03/2011

crimes of the keyboard

[Agnt Duke]

01:49 PM on 09/02/2011

The irony for the 50 girls listing: that's how facebook actually garnered its own success. It is ironic that the police should arrest them for doing exactly the type of activity that facebook was founded upon.

[mhtowe64]

08:58 PM on 09/02/2011

i was going to say the same thing.

that's their foundation

[EmilyKWells]

10:41 AM on 09/02/2011

I definitely see the value in utilizing Facebook to help put child molesters and other criminals of the like behind bars. But, Americans need to remember that we DO have the right to free speech. The teenage boy who wrote the derogatory list about the girls at his school should not have been arrested. He did not threaten anyone or even hint that he wanted to cause anyone physical harm. Was his list offensive and cruel? Yes, it was. But it was not anything he should have been arrested for...we all have the write to express opinions, no matter how vulgar.

[CognitoErgoSum]

01:13 AM on 09/04/2011

If the girls could prove damages, they could charge him for slander. Freedom of speech doesn't mean you can ruin the lives of private citizens. It means you won't be arrested for seeking a redress of grievances from your government. Facebook also has the discretion, as a private company, to establish standards of conduct in the EULA and enforce them. I've seen people lose their YouTube accounts for violations of its community guidelines, if their hate speech got reported often enough.

[EmilyKWells]

06:19 PM on 09/05/2011

Hm, very interesting, I did not know that!

[whodo1952]

10:00 AM on 09/02/2011

Facebook and it's inner sanctum is creepy in a questionable, "intellectual property right"
kind of "in your minds eye" type of overlord power.

True, the technology vehicle is theirs inside of cyberspace, but the context which gives
it, it's users and viewers viable recourse, belongs to the user and viewer.
(shared personal information)

Once your shared information leaves your keypad, it travels into a parallel, inside universe, (cyberspace) to be distributed via others intentions.

Your "personal information" is no longer personally yours to care for even when it is still referred to as your personal information.

It's like "selling" your "soul" or alternative cybernetic form, or avatar, complete with the personal photos which everyone gives over so willingly, to the absorbent core, to forever remain on the scribed walls of cyberspace even long after your human form is gone.
Likened to ancient cave art.

This is the "eternal fame" game, which has functionally, technologically, replaces stone monuments and stationary / statuary.

Your, ( just can't live without them) phones, complete with digital photo ready cameras, are also in on the replicating process as tools of the transformation "trade".

A willing, cogged, transition, between outside and inside, drawn from you, via your own ego's and vanity.

How does this image suit you, Alice?

[Star2000dancer]

12:29 AM on 09/04/2011

Fanned comment my insightful friend.

[gregstevens]

11:11 PM on 09/01/2011

Why is this a series of photos, instead of just a list in an article?

None of the photos had anything to do with titles or the descriptions.

[Gumtree]

10:28 PM on 09/01/2011

Protesters are no longer ALLOWED to have peaceful protests. Are people aware of this fact?? You may not speak your mind nor refuse to obey illegal commands from any monkey in a storm trooper uniform. Meanwhile the criminal power structure has literally looted the entire world and uses the gov't to implement it's crimes and the exploding numbers of militarized police force to quash the peoples rightous outcry. That is the definition of a police state and has bred the kind of mindless raging against the machine we saw in the UK.

Does anyone remember seeing the image of Mussolini hanging upside down from a lamp post? A police state that jails anyone adversarial to their dictates, robs the society of its wealth and strong arms everyone into submission will get away with it for a while. But this story always ends the same way throughout all of history. So my advice to these new fascists supporting the globalist police states we are seeing in every (so called) democratic country ... is be brutal do your worst and let nature reach it's inevitalble conclusion very soon.

[Star2000dancer]

12:31 AM on 09/04/2011

The more you know about history, the more you can see the future.

[Fido0311]

08:02 AM on 09/04/2011

but are you willing to put your neck on the line?

[Demidan]

04:42 PM on 09/01/2011

Yeah, everyone except the creeper who rated classmates.

[subatomic waffle]

02:07 PM on 09/01/2011

That's complete bullshit.

[ords44]

12:13 PM on 09/01/2011

Being an Idiot, is bad enough - but to advertise the fact on a network of 50 million people, is quite another.

[Demidan]

04:43 PM on 09/01/2011

500Million these days.

[ords44]

10:22 AM on 09/02/2011

500 million! pretty soon they won't have to send out census questionnaires, they can just use Face Book - on a global level.

[duaneinva]

12:02 PM on 09/01/2011

Sounds like #8 must have been in New Jersey with its overbearing "cyberbullying" law...