Police in Pennsylvania say they have identified the suspect in a theft case based on a “cartoonish” sketch that was drawn by the victim.<\/p>\n
Lancaster police say Hung Phoc Nguyen, 44, was recognisable to officers based on the black-and-white sketch, and the “modus operandi for the theft suspect”.<\/p>\n
After police located a booking photo of the suspect, they showed it to the witness who positively identified him.<\/p>\n
Police are now searching for Mr Nguyen and are asking the public for help.<\/p>\n
He is accused of impersonating an employee at a market, and taking cash from the stand when a staff member walked away.<\/p>\n
After the theft on 30 January, the employee described the man to police as being a male between the ages of 30 – 40, with a “petite build” and “possibly Asian or South American”.<\/p>\n
In a news release<\/a>, police elaborated that he was described to them as having “straight, black hair that covered his ears” and “wide-set cheekbones and a pointed chin”.<\/p>\n “While the sketch provided by the witness may have appeared amateurish and cartoonish, it, along with the distinctive physical descriptors, jogged the memory of at least one investigator to provide a potential suspect name,” Lancaster Police wrote in their report.<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"