--- title: Ohio Fugitive Turns Himself In After Commenting on Facebook description: This criminal from Butler County, Ohio, has become something of an Internet sensation canonical: https://time.com/3731493/butler-ohio-man-comments-on-sheriff-facebook-post/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-04T15:44:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:56.910Z og:title: Man Turns Himself Iin After Openly Taunting Police on Facebook og:description: The Butler County, Ohio criminal has become an Internet sensation og:url: https://time.com/3731493/butler-ohio-man-comments-on-sheriff-facebook-post/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Man Turns Himself Iin After Openly Taunting Police on Facebook twitter:description: The Butler County, Ohio criminal has become an Internet sensation twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Man Turns Himself In After Openly Taunting Police on Facebook > Sponsored content. 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It all started when the sheriff’s office posted an alert on its Facebook page Monday about Marcum, who was wanted for charges including burglary, abduction and assault, NBC News [reports.](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/andrew-marcum-wanted-ohio-man-openly-taunts-cops-facebook-then-n317111) Here’s the posting: The first person to comment? Marcum. “I ain’t tripping half of them don’t even know me,” Marcum allegedly wrote. It’s not clear what that means, but the sheriff’s office Facebook page replied, “If you could stop by the Sheriff’s Office, that’d be great.” Sheriff Richard Jones then decided to make this a cross-platform affair, sharing the following joke on Twitter: > [](https://twitter.com/butlersheriff/status/572750586275344384) Authorities were soon able to trace Marcum’s whereabouts and bring him into custody. 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