A former Justice Department employee helped the government track down one of his Facebook friends last month, The Associated Press reported. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Scoville in Seattle sought out the unidentified former DOJ employee, after noticing he was a Facebook friend of fugitive Maxi Sopo, who was wanted on bank fraud charges, The AP reported. Sopo was traced to Cancun.

Scoville told The AP:

“He was making posts about how beautiful life is and how he was having a good time with his buddies … He was definitely not living the way we wanted him to be living, given the charges he was facing.”

The former DOJ official became Facebook friends with Sopo after meeting him in Cancun’s nightclubs a few times, but did not know him well or that he was a fugitive until he was contacted by a Secret Service agent who noticed his affiliation with the DOJ, The AP said.

While Sopo’s Facebook account is still active, he has updated his privacy settings so that his friends list is no longer publicly available. The former DOJ employee declined interview requests from The Guardian, citing privacy concerns.

The DOJ recently expanded its online presence and added its own Facebook page.