PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — James Tindell skipped out of state this spring rather than attend drug treatment and follow other conditions he accepted to avoid prison after pleading guilty to robbery in 2010.

But rather do everything possible to avoid detection, he used Facebook to taunt his probation officer and write angry messages about the Multnomah County judge who sentenced him, The Oregonian reported (http://is.gd/V6j63U).

“Fresh out of another state,” Tindell wrote April 20, “Catch me if you can.” Later, he signed a rant about the criminal justice system: “the 1 who got away.”

Tindell apparently didn’t realize who might be reading his Facebook page, with such posts as, “I’m in Alabama.” He also posted a sonogram of his unborn son that showed the name of the county general hospital in Alabama where it was taken.

But probation officer Todd Roberts does monitor the social network and he collected the…