A Fugitive Sends the Police a Selfie Because He Hates His Mugshot

If the cops weren’t trying hard to catch this guy before, they’re DEFINITELY going to make him a priority now.

 

45-year-old Donald Pugh of Lima, Ohio has a warrant out for failure to appear in court, and he’s a suspect in an arson case.  The cops wanted help tracking him down, so they put his mugshot up on Facebook last week.

 

Well, Donald saw it, and he HATED it.

 

So he sent the cops a SELFIE, and told them, “Here is a better photo, that one is terrible.”

 

A police spokesman said,  “He’s drawing more attention to himself, which is going to make it easier for us to locate him, because the more attention this [Facebook] post garners, the more tips are going to come in.”

 

For now though, Donald’s plan HASN’T backfired, because the cops are still trying to track him down.

 

(Here’s the police department’s post with his mugshot, another photo of him, and the selfie he sent in.)

There is an active warrant for the arrest of Donald A “Chip” Pugh, age 45 of Lima, for Failure to Appear. Mr. Pugh is…

Posted by Lima Police Department on Wednesday, January 6, 2016

 

 

(Huffington Post