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    Here’s Why People Are Obsessed With Mugshot Hotties

    by Brian Gallagher Feb 25, 2016 3 minutes

    On June 18, 2014, a photo of a very handsome, no-name man was posted on the Web. Within 48 hours, it garnered 62,000 “Likes” on Facebook and became a media spectacle. Today, the Like count is up to almost 102,000, and the photo is still attracting comments. But thousands of pictures of highly attractive people are posted online every day, and no news articles are written about most of them—so why this one? Because this sultry photo was a mugshot.

    “Hot Convict”: Jeremy Meeks, the face that launched 100,000 Likes.Stockton Police Department/Facebook

    Jeremy Meeks,: “Being that sexy is illegal?” (This “hot convict” phenomenon isn’t exclusive to men, by the way. After her arrest photo went viral in September, the until-then little-known model Angela Coates wrote, “I’m the female Jeremy Meeks.” An admirer of hers 

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