In what may be the first instance of Sherlock Holmes meets Social Networking, New Zealand police are reporting that they have taken a man into custody after placing video footage of him breaking into a Queenstown business on the popular site Facebook.
A security camera located in the back of a bar caught the man’s face when he removed his balaclava, ostensibly because it was very hot in the small room where the safe he was attempting to crack was located.
The bar’s assistant manager, Mel Kelly, had this to say: “The room is really small and it gets really hot in there at the best of times.”
Queenstown police posted the video from the security cameras onto Facebook, and in a very short time the members of the site identified him. This is the first instance local police in Queenstown have used Facebook to solve a crime and affect an arrest.
“He was identified from members of the public viewing him on Facebook, and also seeing him on TV after the Facebook images were displayed on the news,” Constable Sean Drader said. Drader added that it was unusual to obtain footage of a burglar in action. “He can’t be too experienced because he’s pretty young.”
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