Catching criminals often involves endless hours of detective work, reels of security camera footage and sometimes just a bit of plain old luck. A possibly more effective way to catch those same criminals is to use social networking website Pinterest.

The Mercury,�a Pottstown, Pennsylvania newspaper, has so far posted 74 pictures to its newspaper Pinterest �page and surprisingly the effort has been very effective.

Pottstown Police Capt. F. Richard Drumheller told�NPR�that the minute the page was setup tips began flooding in to his department. Drumheller notes: read more