Smartphone, Dumb Thief: Police Use Selfie to Catch Crook

A Florida man was posing for a mug shot just days after taking a selfie with a stolen smartphone. Jess Ewald, 19, was arrested for grand theft after the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office posted a picture the crook took of himself to its Facebook and Twitter pages last week, officials said. “Do you recognize the #Selfie of this suspected thief?” the sheriff’s office wrote on its Facebook page. Authorities said the suspect stole the phone from a worker at Benny’s on the Beach in Lake Worth, just south of West Palm Beach, between 10 p.m. and midnight.