Chatty Newfoundland fugitive turns himself in after responding to police posting
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — A Newfoundland man who promised in a Facebook post to turn himself in on five arrest warrants has kept his word.
The story played out on social media Monday for all to read when Brandon Melbourne took exception to comments on the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary’s Facebook page likening him to a person wanted for an armed robbery at a St. John’s bank on Friday afternoon.
The constabulary had posted pictures of Melbourne, who was wanted on a number of warrants. They had also separately posted pictures of a suspect in the robbery at the Bank of Montreal.
When some people posted comments that the bank suspect looked like Melbourne, he responded on the page saying it wasn’t him, and he would be turning himself in on the warrants later in the evening after he done “a few things.”