Chapman, who lives in a Brunswick, Ga., community called Lexington Place, owns a moving company. Someone had smashed the windows in the two trucks and stolen his radar detector, GPS and XM radio, he told WTLV.
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As police began their investigation, his wife, Mary, logged in to Facebook and told her friends.
"When my wife passed it along to her friend, she passed it to her friend who lives in the neighborhood. She Facedbooked it back to my wife," said Al Chapman.
As the news quickly spread on the social networking site, one neighbor wrote back and said she saw the suspect and knew the 18-year-old lived just down the street, WTLV reported. So the Chapmans called the police.
"The officer was on top of her job, but Facebook went straight to the crime and got our criminal," said Al Chapman, who admitted he didn't even like the site until now.
"Don't mess with the Lexington Place housewives," said his wife.
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Philadelphia Police Department, AP
Philadelphia Police Department, AP
