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New Zealand Police Make 'First Facebook Arrest'

by Lee Bains on January 15, 2009 at 02:30 PM


This week in New Zealand, the Queenstown police identified and arrested an attempted burglar with the help of an unconventional investigative tool: social networking site Facebook.

When police obtained a surveillance video of the would-be safe cracker, they could not immediately identify him, according to CNN. So, using the department's two-month-old Facebook account, investigators posted still images and video of the culprit on the department profile, asking "friends" to identify the man.

Within 24 hours, the suspect -- whose name has been withheld -- was identified, located and arrested.

Apparently, the Law in the southern hemisphere finds something about Facebook to be terribly appealing.
[From: CNN]

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