An Australian fugitive who had escaped from prison during a hospital visit was recovered by police less than a week later. He was caught after he posted on Facebook to his friends and even tried to organize a poker tournament.
Justin Grant was doing a 5-year prison sentence for armed robbery when he escaped during an approved visit to a hospital in Townsville on July 15. During the week of his escape, he visited Facebook regularly and left messages to his friends like “Ha, you watch I will have to hand myself in before they catch me.” The 21-year-old Australian had even tried to organize an poker online tournament between friends. In this case, the advantage of online poker worked against the poker player.
It is not the first fugitive that got caught thanks to Facebook, last December Craig Lynch posted messages on Facebook challenging that the police could not get him anyway.