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Cartoonish Sketch Which Was Ridiculed Helped Police To Identify Suspect

By Ashish Ranjan, 11 February 2018

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Police have a peculiar way of addressing crimes and one of the ways to nab the criminals is by using sketches of them. Police always try to get a sketch of the suspect so that it becomes easy for them to get hold of them. Sketches have also led to many arrests all across the world. There are also specialists who make these sketches. Police are benefitted from the fact that they have leads to go ahead in the case. It is always easy to approach the case and arrest the suspect when they have an idea about how this suspect would have looked.

1 Cartoonish sketch of suspect was initially ridiculed

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Recently, a witness created a cartoonish sketch of the suspect to arrest him. The cartoonish sketch was initially ridiculed for its simplicity. But, in fact, that simple cartoonish sketch helped the police to track down the suspect. As per the statement of Police authorities in Pennsylvania, they have now identified the suspect of the theft case. And, it became possible only because of that cartoonish sketch provided by the witness.

Cartoonish sketch of suspect

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2 Police were also provided physical description of the suspect

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Apart from that sketch, Police were also provided physical description of the suspect. With all these information at hand, Police was able to zero down on the suspect. The sketch initially helped Police to narrow down the search. The suspect who was identified as Hung Phoc Nguyen was a 44 years old thief. Nguyen was charged with an accusation of impersonating an employee at the Central Market in Lancaster.

physical description of the suspect

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3 Nguyen was successful in taking away cash from the market

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Nguyen was successful in taking cash away from a stand when the employee stationed there went for some other works. Nguyen fled from the Central Market in Lancaster with an unidentified amount of cash.

Central Market in Lancaster

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