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File this one under all-time backfires.
ANCHOR: "A California man is in jail after apparently Googling his name and finding out
he was on the most wanted website. The 27-year-old looked himself up on Google and saw his mugshot
on the website." (Via WFTS)
ANCHOR: "Some people say we're on an ego trip when we do this. Here's one ego trip that
went bad. That's Christopher Viatafa. He actually turned himself in." (Via MSNBC)
So give the guy some credit. When he saw his mug, he didn't run from the problem.
Local media outlets report police in San Leandro had a warrant out for Viatafa's arrest after
they say he fired a gun into the ground several times during a party back in August. The shots
didn't hit anyone. (Via San Francisco Chronicle)
So when he found his name and mugshot posted on the San Francisco Bay Area website NorthernCaliforniaMostWanted.org,
he turned himself from wanted fugitive into captured fugitive.
A statement released by San Leandro Police Friday read, "Although it wasn't good judgment
that landed him on the website, he did used good judgment to turn himself in after seeing
his photo." (Via ABC)
Viatafa was wanted for discharging a firearm toward an inhabited dwelling. KTVU in San
Francisco reports the most wanted website where he saw himself has only been up since
December.