{"id":5391,"date":"2025-06-30T10:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=5391"},"modified":"2025-06-30T10:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:16:22","slug":"selfie-taken-by-mom-saves-son-from-99-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=5391","title":{"rendered":"Selfie taken by mom saves son from 99 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\" data-start=\"72\" data-end=\"296\">Christopher \u201cCJ\u201d Precopia\u2019s life was turned upside down in 2017 when he was falsely accused by his ex-girlfriend, Faith Cox, of a violent assault. Arrested at work and facing up to 99 years in prison, CJ had no idea why.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p data-start=\"298\" data-end=\"507\">Cox claimed CJ broke into her home and attacked her with a box cutter, even carving an \u201cX\u201d into her chest. Despite no physical evidence tying him to the crime, CJ was charged with first-degree felony burglary.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"509\" data-end=\"748\">The case took a dramatic turn when CJ\u2019s mother found a selfie taken at 7:02 p.m. the night of the alleged assault, showing CJ at a hotel 70 miles away. The timestamped photo, posted on Facebook, proved he couldn\u2019t have committed the crime.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"750\" data-end=\"869\">Nine months later, charges were dropped \u201cin the interest of justice.\u201d Cox was later charged with filing a false report.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"871\" data-end=\"942\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\u201cIt\u2019s terrifying how quickly your life can change from a lie,\u201d CJ said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Man cleared of charges by his mom's Facebook post\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LQgKj7T-40A?start=63&amp;feature=oembed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher \u201cCJ\u201d Precopia\u2019s life was turned upside down in 2017 when he was falsely accused by his ex-girlfriend, Faith Cox, of a violent assault. Arrested at work and facing up to 99 years in prison, CJ had no idea why. Cox claimed CJ broke into her home and attacked her with a box cutter, even&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=5391\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Selfie taken by mom saves son from 99 years in prison&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5393,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions\/5393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}