Posted on 12/22/2011 5:27:45 PM PST by grundle
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Police say they stole thousands of dollars in cash and goods, and then posed with their loot and posted the photos to a popular social media site.
Police say the three suspects, along with another teen, posted the photos on Facebook about an hour after they burglarized Elliott’s Town Market on Chartiers Avenue in the West End.
“We received information the day after the burglary that these pictures were posted on Facebook, and if you look at the pictures, you can see that the individuals are holding a large amount of cash,” Sgt. Kevin Gasiorowski, of the Pittsburgh Police, said.
Officials say $8,000 cash isn’t the only thing the teens took from Elliott’s.
“Numerous boxes and cartons of cigarettes, cartons of candy, checks and approximately $8,000 dollars in cash,” Sgt. Gasiorowski said.
A family member of one of the teens is the one who spotted the pictures online and tipped off police, officials said.
“She found it very concerning and she also knew of the burglary of the business so she did her civic duty and gave us a call,” he said.
Three juveniles, a 17-year-old and two 14-year-olds have already been arrested. They are charged with burglary and criminal conspiracy and have been released to their parents.
Police are still searching for the fourth suspect. He is identified by officials as 18-year-old Isaiah Cutler. They say the pictures were posted on his Facebook account.
They say its only a matter of time before he is tracked down.
“It makes our job a lot easier when basically they post what amounts to be a confession on the internet for everyone to see,” Sgt. Gasiorowski said.
Police believe Cutler is in the East Liberty area. Anyone with information is asked to call police.
gotta LOVE stupid criminals
If their brains were dynamite, they couldn’t blow their hats off.
‘If their brains were dynamite, they couldn’t blow their hats off.’
or blow their nose!
Sooooooooooo many crimes are solved because higher but not quite high enough primates just -have- to brag. They just can’t help themselves.
To join my gang you have to be trust worthy and respectable. The initiation requires things like helping the neighbor shovel snow.
Yo dawg.
LoL!
I would say they are high, but I don’t think I’d say higher evolved.
My husband does that all the time. We have a lot of heavy snow at times and a lot of elderly. In fact, most of the men in our neighborhood who have the snowblowers do a few extra driveways routinely. We got lots of great baked goods from the grateful neighbors last year.
There are only about 150 people in my little town and most of them are elderly. At 48 years old, I’m one of the local youngsters.
Thank God for the Pittsburgh public schools that gave these young burglars the education necessary for the police to catch them.
you ARE a youngster!
your hood sounds like its all that and a bag of taters
American society has been purposely stupefied and dumbed down by the likes of social media such as Facebook and Zuckerberg.
I’ve always been an early tech adopter but I refuse to give up privacy through social media. What fool would ever turn over and give the perpetual copyright power of their friends, lives, photos, political opinions, etc to a corporation that was created solely to market such info to others?
Give me a break as to its positive advantage of keeping in touch. I keep in touch too and not through FB. Sign up at your own risk but don’t complain to us later when you find that after providing all of this info, that you are restricted from accessing or changing it unless you provide detailed personal info such as an unpub. number or cell phone.
I have friends who absurdly gave up their lives to them and now find out they’ve lost control and they now complain. I usually tell them that their naivety is their problem and I don’t care to hear!
Society has a general lack of common sense and instead is about looking for a pop culture high.
A family member of one of the teens is the one who spotted the pictures online and tipped off police, officials said.
“She found it very concerning and she also knew of the burglary of the business so she did her civic duty and gave us a call,” he said.
Then again, maybe the Pittsburgh cops are pretty stupid too, ya don't have to drop a dime on your snitch for a public posting on Facebook, it's probable cause in the public domain, easy warrant.
The longer term impact of slavery has turned out very poorly for the USA.
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