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'Ridiculously good looking' felon jailed for over two years

Jeremy Meeks’s mugshot went viral.

THE ‘RIDICULOUSLY GOOD looking’ California felon who went viral last year has been jailed for over two years.

Jeremy Meeks even landed a modelling contract after Stockton Police Department put his mugshot on their Facebook page in June of last year.

The picture is still there and has gained over 100,000 likes, 26,000 comments and has been shared almost 13,000 times.

But the attention hasn’t stopped a US federal court from jailing Meeks for 27 months yesterday after he was convicted of illegally possessing a firearm.

A local CBS News outlet also says that Meeks was ordered to take part in 500-hours of substance abuse treatment.

meeks 2 Meeks's mother released a number of photos of him as part of her campaign.

Meeks had been taken into custody as part of a clampdown on organised crime in the Stockton area of Northern California. Meeks’s mother had launched a campaign trying to have her son freed, claiming he was being stereotyped because of old tattoos.

The reaction to his photo saw the father-of-one being offered a $30,000 contract by a Los Angeles based  modelling agency. He was also reportedly offered $100,000 to become a porn star.

Read: Ridiculously good-looking criminal’s mugshot goes viral after police Facebook post >

Read: Sexy mugshot felon’s mam launches campaign to have him freed >

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    Mute Bobby Neary
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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:17 AM

    There is more to being really really ridiculously good looking

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    Mute Paul Flynn
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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:25 AM

    What is this? A school for ants?

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    Mute Elaine Ward
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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:27 AM

    It’s the Derek zoolander centre for kids who can’t read good and wanna learn other stuff too

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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:28 AM
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    Mute Bobby Neary
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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:39 AM

    It needs to be a least 3 times bigger

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    Mute Eugene Walsh
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    Feb 6th 2015, 11:21 AM

    He looks remarkably like me!
    Absolutely uncanny!

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    Feb 6th 2015, 2:47 PM

    Eugene methinks you have your hand it

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    Mute Jason Ebbs
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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:48 AM

    Hope his gorgeous good looks don’t work to his disadvantage while in prison !

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    Mute Jason Bourne
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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:46 AM

    Ah, but can he turn left?

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    Feb 6th 2015, 11:45 AM

    I wonder if Michael Lowry would rate him

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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:18 AM

    Probably regrets all that media attention he go now.

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    Mute Tom Red
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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:24 AM

    “You don’t look at the mantelpiece when you’re poking the fire”
    as they say across the Atlantic. ….

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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:29 AM

    Are you saying you would poke him Tom?

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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:41 AM

    Nah,
    He’s not my Cuppantae. …

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    Mute Eric Duffy
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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:42 AM

    One can appreciate hotness regardless of Gender.

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    Mute Ben Gunn
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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:59 AM

    Really, so how does that work?

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    Feb 6th 2015, 11:27 AM

    Loving the profile pic Eric.

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    Mute Cuppantae
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    Feb 6th 2015, 11:33 AM

    @ Tom Red….Boom!

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    Feb 6th 2015, 7:24 PM

    No reverse cow girl there…

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    Mute Dan
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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:26 AM

    Jax Teller could bust him out of Stockton and put him to work.

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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:20 AM

    They’re gonna love him in Sing Sing. There’ll be a whistling sound wherever he walks forever more.

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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:23 AM

    Haha rape, comedy gold eh?!

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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:26 AM

    Haha… You’ve been watching too much Law and Order.

    Why would someone arrested in north California be sent to prison in New York State

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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:37 AM

    Law and order SVU is the best crime show ever

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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:43 AM

    Love law n order

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    Feb 6th 2015, 2:40 PM

    there’ll be an episode not based on this story, but really based on this story, with your man staring as himself but not himself if you know what i mean!!

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    Feb 6th 2015, 11:10 PM
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    Feb 6th 2015, 11:18 AM

    He’s so hot right now.

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    Feb 6th 2015, 11:42 AM

    Getting raped in prison jokes still hilarious, I see. Stay gold, Journal commenters.

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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:45 AM

    Awww he’s a lash

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    Feb 6th 2015, 2:18 PM

    Doesn’t that teardrop tattoo signify that he has killed someone? Don’t know how anyone can say he’s good looking with a stamp like that on his face.

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    Feb 6th 2015, 10:42 AM

    Still white trash ha

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    Feb 6th 2015, 11:06 PM

    White? He’s a Crip and there ain’t no crackers in the Crips.

    Check out some other views:

    http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/california/new-jeremy-meeks-mug-shots-897562

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    Feb 6th 2015, 11:03 AM

    Obviously beauty IS in the eye of the beholder, probably only went viral due to the tag (we’ve all been caught by one of those more than once only to think wtf is this shite)

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    Feb 6th 2015, 1:01 PM

    This article is sexist.

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    Feb 6th 2015, 11:09 AM

    I bet he will get lots of action inside!

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    Feb 6th 2015, 5:37 PM

    But can he look that good on a cold tuesday night in stoke?

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    Feb 6th 2015, 2:37 PM

    I hear that this handsome dude will be sharing a cell with 30 stone Bubba who has been quoted as say ” I’ll look after him alright, and everything that he’ll need is here even the Vaseline.
    Nice to know that there are caring people like Bubba around.
    Well done,Bubba!

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    Feb 6th 2015, 11:20 AM

    Sorry ladies, and guys, he’s taken! Ridiculously photogenic…: http://youtu.be/jMI8u_Ws2Sg

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    Mute Rosie Murray
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    Feb 6th 2015, 5:45 PM

    His good looks won’t serve him well in prison…

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    Feb 6th 2015, 5:46 PM

    Squeal like a pig boy…

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    Feb 6th 2015, 11:29 AM

    This Felon’s Viral Mug Shot Might Be His Get Out …: http://youtu.be/6-HwxbkXxB4

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    Feb 6th 2015, 4:31 PM

    He sure has a pretty mouth

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    Feb 6th 2015, 9:03 PM

    Wwwwwhhhhhiiiissssttttt a grá

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    Feb 8th 2015, 5:17 PM

    Lucky he not going to the Shawshank .
    Imagine Bogs and the sisters excitement when seeing him. Fresh meat fresh meat .
    Sorry I couldn’t resist !

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    Feb 7th 2015, 9:58 AM

    His looks won’t be important when his face is buried in to a pillow.

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    Feb 7th 2015, 4:56 AM

    So he be “good looking” in jail then?

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