Boasts of drinking exploits on social networking sites have cost some people their freedom.

Offenders on probation are ending up in prison or getting other sanctions with increasing regularity after posting pictures online of themselves with alcohol or firearms or bragging about out-of-town trips made without permission from their probation officers, according to judges, prosecutors and Kentucky corrections officials.

It happened to Scott W. Roby of Louisville. Convicted of possessing methamphetamine and Ecstasy, Roby had his probation revoked this month — and was sentenced to two years in prison — in part for violating conditions that required him to stay alcohol-free.

Roby posted Facebook pictures of himself drinking, including one in which he was holding a beer while posing next to the mascot for the Louisville Bats, prosecutor Dinah Koehler told The Courier-Journal. Before that, Roby had invited his probation officer to be his friend on Facebook.

In another case, Donnie Lee Griffith Jr., who was on probation, went to prison last year on theft and burglary convictions after the 22-year-old Louisville man posted a Facebook photo in which he held a jar of clear liquid over a caption that said, "Moonshine rocks and so do I!"

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