CARPINTERIA, Calif.- A felony fugitive who escaped from his electronic monitoring device six months ago is now in custody, after investigators say someone recognized him by his facebook picture.
Steven Kunes, 56, was spotted Sunday afternoon sitting at a bar in Carpinteria. The citizen had seen Kunes' booking photo on the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office facebook page.
Kunes, a Pennsylvania resident who has also lived in Montecito, has an extensive criminal history that includes forgery, grand theft and commercial burglary. He was serving a sentence at the county jail and was approved for electronic monitoring on August 1st, of 2012. On August 22nd, an alert went out that his device had been cut at the Fed Ex Office on Hope Avenue.
Kunes is in the Santa Barbara County Jail pending an arraignment on escape charges. No bail is set.
