Posting selfies on social media isn’t unusual, unless you’re in police custody while being transported from court for robbing three men at gunpoint and shooting one of them in the thigh.
According to WSAZ News, Shane Holbrook, inmate at Western Regional Jail in West Virginia, captured three photos of him and fellow inmates and posted them to Facebook.
“I had some family members that seemed concerned about me,” Holbrook told WSAZ News. “I just wanted them to know I was alright – not to stress too much.”
Holbrook shouldn’t have had access to a mobile device able to connect to the internet – it goes against the prison’s contraband rules – but was able to get his hands on one.
However, he isn’t snitching on how he got it and is keeping his mouth shut.
“I know you’re not allowed to have a cell phone in jail,” Holbrook told WSAZ News. “It just happened. It’s just the way things work sometimes. Lightning strikes trees, comets fall to earth, a guy in jail gets a cell phone sometimes. That’s just the way this works.”
Holbrook is currently facing charges of robbery and maliciously wounding a man.
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