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Guidance counselors warn students and employers caution workers, but here it is again:

Facebook. Is. Public.

That means: People can see what you post there.

The Indiana Excise Police looked and saw, and on Thursday arrested a Tell City man on preliminary charges related to operating a liquor still at his home — a still depicted in photos posted on Facebook.

Jeremy D. Thompson, 39, of the 600 block of 12th Street, was arrested after excise officers served a search warrant at his home, according to a news release from the Indiana State Excise Police.

The agency began its investigation in February, the release said, after receiving a tip about a Facebook post that showed “a distilling apparatus.”

Investigators found other photos and posts that indicated that a Tell City man was manufacturing and distributing untaxed liquor.

Investigators seized a distilling apparatus; containers of liquor that, according to the release, Thompson said was untaxed liquor he had produced; a hydrometer, used to measure the density of liquids; and other devices used to make liquor.

Preliminary charges against Thompson are: possession of unlicensed equipment for the production of alcoholic beverages, a Class C misdemeanor; sale without a permit, a Class B misdemeanor; unauthorized dealings, a Class B misdemeanor; and two charges related to the sale of untaxed alcoholic beverages, as a Class B misdemeanor and as a Class C misdemeanor.

“The production of unregulated alcohol is a public safety concern that cannot be ignored,” Excise Police Superintendent Matt Strittmatter said in a written statement. “State Excise officers will continue to investigate any information that is received concerning the illegal production of liquor.”

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