The 10 Dumbest Criminals Who Got Away With It (Then Didn't)

Maxi Sopo, a 26 year old fugitive hiding out in Mexico, was smart enough to commit bank fraud, yet somehow it slipped his mind to remove a former Justice Department official from his friends list.

The Cameroon native consistently updated his status from Cancun, detailing what a rockin' good time he was having evading charges of bank fraud in Seattle.

Memorable status updates included "LIFE IS VERY SIMPLE REALLY!!!! BUT SOME OF US HUMANS MAKE A MESS OF IT ... REMEMBER AM JUST HERE TO HAVE FUN PARTEEEEEEE."

Sopo arrived in the US in 2003 and sold roses in Seattle nightclubs until, according to prosecutors, he moved on to bank fraud. PARTEEEEE!

After initial police efforts to find Sopo on facebook and Myspace were unsuccessful, FBI agent Seth Reeg looked again, found Sopo's private profile, and tapped into his public list of friends.

As it turns out, a former Justice Department employee had met Sopo briefly in the Seattle night club scene and was more than happy to help officials. Sopo is facing up to 30 years in prison, but I'm sure he'll keep us updated.

L.A. county sheriff's investigator Kevin Lloyd was flipping through photographs of tattooed gang members (most likely picking out a design for himself, the rebel) and stumbled upon some super cool and very permanent evidence on Anthony Garcia, a Pico Rivera gang member responsible for a 2004 unsolved liquor store murder.

Rivera had key details of the crime scene tattooed on his chest, including the Christmas lights that lined the roof of the liquor store, the direction the victim John Juarez's body fell, and the bowed street light across the street from the store.

The "Rivera Kills" ink across his chest probably didn't help his case. Garcia was arrested while staying with relatives in La Habra.

Everyone get out your Polly Pocket notebooks, because we've got some serious advice: Don't attempt breaking & entering while wearing a GPS tracking anklet given to you by the police. You will not get away with it.

James Wombles, a Springfield Ohio native, committed several robberies in the Clark and Miami county areas. Wombles (who, by the sound of his name, is the clumsy nephew of one of the Teletubbies) was already under police surveillance due to a previous stolen property charge, and didn't realize that his GPS anklet would actually prevent him from slipping away from the scene of the crime spree.

Who would have thought? He is slated to stand trial later this year.

An Illinois man, Thomas Infante, entered the Fifth Third Bank in December of 2008 with the goal of obtaining some unearned cash.

He made off with just under $400 before authorities tracked him to his Cary home.

The FBI was called in and quickly realized that they were dealing with no mastermind when they discovered that he had written a note threatening tellers to "Be Quick Be Quit. Give your cash or I'll shoot..." wait for it... on his October pay stub.

He was held without bond before being sentenced to 46 months in prison and ordered to repay the $397 that was stolen.

Daniel D. Lorello, a 54 year old New York state employee, was arrested and charged with three felonies, third-degree grand larceny, fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, and first-degree scheme to defraud.

Apparently Lorello attempted to sell several items belonging to the New York State Library on eBay, including a four-page letter that John C. Calhoun, vice president of the United States under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, wrote in 1823 to a New York general. Joseph Romito, a Virginia attorney and former teacher, was the complaining witness that brought the auction of the Calhoun letter to the attention of state authorities.

The auction generated bids exceeding $1,700, according to the statement issued by Cuomo. State investigators are in the process of recovering hundreds of documents that will eventually be returned to the State Library.

Among the library's other documents are a set of autographs of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, manuscripts from the original draft of George Washington's farewell address, an original first draft of Abraham Lincoln's emancipation Proclamation, and numerous books and memorabilia regarding Theodore Roosevelt.