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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWanda Podgurski Captured: Fugitive Arrested After Taunting Police On Twitter
Wanda Podgurski Captured: Fugitive Arrested After Taunting Police On Twitter
SAN DIEGO -- "Catch me if you can."
San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said Wanda Podgurski sent that taunting tweet after skipping trial in January while facing charges of insurance of fraud.
But then authorities did catch her.
Podgurski, 60, was captured on the Fourth of July in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, a popular retirement spot for American expatriates only 15 miles south of San Diego. She pleaded not guilty Monday to failure to appear while free on bail.
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Her account follows 32 people and agencies, many of them FBI branches and other law enforcement authorities. Dumanis' office said the district attorney was the only one Podgurski followed while on the run.
The district attorney's office declined to say how authorities tracked down Podgurski, saying only that information from the Twitter account was turned over to its Computer and Technology Crime High-Tech Response Team, known by the acronym Catch.
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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/wanda-podgurski-captured_n_3564649.html
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Wanda Podgurski Captured: Fugitive Arrested After Taunting Police On Twitter (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Jul 2013
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MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)1. That was stupid.
People are such idiots. You deserve to get caught when you do stupid shit like that.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)3. Rule ONE of being on the lam. Do NOT attract attention.
Stupidity carries its own penalty.
treestar
(82,383 posts)4. Mexico returned her?
To the US to answer charges? Why how dare they not give her asylum!