Has this person been convicted of a crime? No? Well now... Does anybody remember Richard Jewell?
On the other hand, the guy's lawyer does admit he was the one that found the phone, it's not likely Wired found the wrong person.
I don't think Wired is making any assumptions about the legal status of what he did.
Does that make it any less freaky that trawling Facebook is what led to this scoop? Well, admittedly no.
Wow... why don't I see a hue and cry regarding the name revelation by wired.com here. When Gizmodo released the name of Gary powell it was called a cheap shot... But stalking someone using facebook and revealing their name to the world which definitely could affect the person's career is suddenly fair game.