A not so clever Omaha man avoiding arrest for a parole violation was finally caught Friday after he posted a video of him doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on Facebook, the Omaha World-Herald reported.
Jesean Morris' heart may have been in the right place when he took the Ice Bucket Challenge, following scores of others who have dumped buckets of ice water on themselves in a bid to raise money for the ALS Association.
But the 20-year-old, who was wanted since March on a parole violation, ended up getting arrested after someone watched the Facebook video and recognized the house he was at.
"[Officers] were given a specific house," Officer Kevin Weise told the newspaper.
Police surveilled the home and later followed Morris when he left in a Chrysler PT Cruiser. Morris had driven outside the neighborhood when officers stopped him.
Morris apparently tried to further evade arrest by giving police a fake name and birthday, the Omaha World-Herald reported. He also spat in one of the cop's faces and damaged their vehicle.
Morris was arrested for the parole violation in addition to suspicion of criminal impersonation, resisting arrest and assaulting an officer.
The nature of Morris' parole violation was not immediately clear. He was convicted in 2010 for attempted second-degree assault with a weapon and was released from the Omaha Correctional Center in March.
The ALS Association has raised over $79 million since June 29 when it began the campaign to help fight amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative disease that affects the brain.
Morris' arrest adds to an already long list of suspects arrested because of social media. In June, a 26-year-old man was arrested because he forgot to log out of his Facebook account while robbing a man's home.
