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Suspect arrested in Youngstown after his Greyhound bus selfie

PITTSBURGH

Police caught up to a man trying to flee assault charges because he posted a selfie on Facebook while sitting on a Greyhound bus out of town, a police chief said Tuesday.

“We like it when dumb criminals assist us in our investigation,” Ambridge police Chief James Mann told the Beaver County Times, which first reported the arrest.

Mann told The Associated Press that the suspect, 22-year-old Donald Harrison, had been living in the borough about 20 miles northwest of Pittsburgh when he was charged with assaulting a woman and refusing to let her leave her apartment after an argument Jan. 24.

An hour after the woman called police, police learned that Harrison, who is originally from Spartansburg, S.C., posted the Facebook message, “IT’S TIME TO LEAVE PA.”

Police couldn’t find him right away, but Mann said the woman called him Sunday afternoon after she noticed the Facebook selfie with the message saying, “OMW TO SPARTANSBURG SC SAY A PRAYER FOR ME.”

Mann said the picture appeared to show Harrison sitting in a bus or airplane and, acting on a hunch, he called the Greyhound bus terminal in Pittsburgh and learned a bus to Spartansburg had left 15 minutes earlier. After learning it would stop in Youngstown, Mann explained the situation to Greyhound and arranged for Youngstown police to arrest Harrison on a warrant he faxed them.

“I guess when the bus pulled in, they instructed the driver to keep the door shut until police got there, and the rest is history,” Mann said. “We’ve been on ‘World’s Dumbest Criminals’ for a couple of things, but his actions certainly qualifies for another episode” of the reality show on truTV.

The show focuses on the dumb but funny things criminal suspects sometimes do that get themselves caught. But Mann said there’s nothing funny about what Harrison reportedly did to the victim.

Israeli busted for drugs after leaving CV in bag with stash

JERUSALEM

An Israeli man looking for a job may need to add “drug dealer” to his resume. Or, perhaps: No more Mr. Niceguy.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says officers arrested the 27-year-old from central Israel after finding his CV in a bag along with 350 packets of an illegal drug.

Rosenfeld said Tuesday that the man was shocked when police knocked on his door and asked how they found him.

Police say the resume described him as “responsible” and “serious” and said he had a background in security.

The drug, called “Mr. Niceguy,” is a synthetic substance that users say has narcotic effects. It was outlawed in Israel about a year ago after reports of its negative effects.

Police found the resume and drugs in an impounded car.

Associated Press