This mugshot came back to bite the jailers who took it

His bologna has a first name.

It’s L-O-L-O-L.

When Justin Richardson posed for a mugshot over the weekend at the Union County Jail in North Carolina, he told his jailers he was hungry.

So they gave him a bologna sandwich.

Then they let him use it as a prop for his mug.

Fox 46 in Charlotte, N.C., chased down the story behind the odd mugshot and posted the image on social media.

Officials with the Union County Sheriff’s Office, who turned down requests for an on-camera interview, told the TV station that Richardson appeared heavily under the influence when he was arrested, and he told jail employees he was hungry.

So they made him a sandwich — standard-issue, white-bread-and-bologna from the looks of it — and photographed him while he wolfed it down.

That mugshot has since been replaced on the department’s website with a more traditional mug.

According to Fox 46, the Sheriff’s Office disciplined the jail officers involved.

Richardson, who was booked on probation violations, has a long history of arrests and is apparently one of the jail’s repeat customers.

This story was originally published September 27, 2017 at 12:45 PM with the headline "This mugshot came back to bite the jailers who took it."