FBI Nabs Robbers With Google Map, Spycam Mashup
G-Men these days have to focus more on stopping terrorists than nabbing old-school bank robbers. So FBI agents in Arkansas are enlisting the online public's help in catching the thieves. And it appears to be working. Four bank robberies have been solved in the past six months, thanks in part to tips collected from BanditTrackerArkansas.com, Little Rock special agent Steven Burroughs tells the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. In all, 10 suspected robbers featured on the site are now behind bars.
Noel Andrew Jackson, who held up the Arvest bank in Springdale, was pretty easy to spot: 6'5", 242 pounds, covered in tattoos — including one of a toothy mouth, beneath his adam's apple. The guy in the goatee and the seaman's cap who robbed the bank inside the Little Rock Kroger's supermarket was a little more inconspicuous. But he was caught, too. (Maybe it had something to do with the site's notice that "the robber fled in a white pickup truck bearing California tag 6DOP40.")
