Stacey Grant and her relatives were ecstatic to be in Las Vegas for Spring Break, so Grant posted all about their whereabouts on her Facebook page. What she didn’t know was that one of her ‘Friends’ was allegedly searching her page to figure out the best time to break into her house.
How well do you know your Facebook ‘friends’? A family in California realized the hard way some online acquaintances aren’t always who they seem to be.
Stacey Grant and her relatives were ecstatic to be in Las Vegas for Spring Break, so Grant posted all about their whereabouts on her Facebook page. What she didn’t know was that one of her ‘Friends’ was allegedly trolling her page to figure out the best time to break into her house.
According to Grant, that so-called friend texted her when she arrived in Vegas, asking where she was. She took it as a nonchalant question, but within hours of that message, the police contacted her family to alert them the house had been ransacked. Everyone packed up and headed back home.
Officers caught three men red-handed loading up a truck with the family’s belongings. 21-year-old Michael Batson, 20-year-old Tyrone Gibson and 32-year-old Phillip McKnight were all arrested for ‘possession of stolen property, suspicion of burglary, and conspiracy’.
Batson is the Facebook friend who allegedly scoured Grant’s page with bad intentions. Although the family vacation was cut short, they received their property back.
In light of the incident, police have urged Facebook users to be very careful what they post and to only accept friend requests from people they know well.
