LOCKPORT — The last entry on Christopher K. Crego's Facebook page already has been removed.

It was a thank-you note from the City of Lockport Police Department.

"It was due to your diligence in keeping us informed that now you are under arrest," Capt.

Richard Podgers, chief of detectives, typed onto the page. He said he also is considering

nominating Crego for "America's Dumbest Criminal."

Crego, 39, formerly of Sunset Drive, posted online social networking pages that picture

guns, information about his criminal cases and boasts that he has served time.

He even posted a local newspaper article that called him one of this area's "10 Most

Wanted."

There was so much information, Podgers said Thursday, that Crego may just as well have

drawn a roadmap for investigators. As a result, he is in police custody in Terre Haute, Ind.,

and will be extradited by U.S. marshals back to Western New York.

Crego will be sentenced on charges that he assaulted a Lockport pizzeria owner on Nov. 29,

2008, outside a West Avenue bar.

He also faces charges of driving while intoxicated, improper lane use, failure to keep

right and unlawful possession of marijuana leveled last Aug. 8.

And five counts of cruelty to animals, all misdemeanors, lodged by Buffalo police, who

accused him of shooting at four sparrows and a sea gull with a large BB gun last July, killing

two of the sparrows.

When Crego failed to show up in court in Buffalo and Lockport last October, warrants were

issued.

Recently, officers had been hearing about his Facebook and MySpace accounts. When they

checked Crego's pages on those sites, police found everything they needed, Podgers said.

"It was actually perfect," he said. "He gave us his address, where he worked, he actually

filled out everything. I couldn't have done better [investigating]."

On his MySpace page, Crego writes that he majored in "Buss. Mgmt." at Niagara County

Community College and minored in "Cuttin Class"; he writes he graduated from Lockport High

School in 1988, majoring in "art" and minoring in "lunch."

When U.S. marshals from Buffalo went to Indiana and arrested him Wednesday, Crego was still

driving his car with his New York State license plates.

Online, he told social networking friends he was working at a place called Body Art Ink

Tattoo Piercing Emporium.

"He even listed their address for us," Podgers said, "so we didn't have to search [very

hard]. And he gave us his hours, so we were able to know when he would come to work, look for

his car, come into work and arrest him."

"It's criminals like him," the police captain said, "who make our job easier."