Self-shot cellphone photo helps identify Swedish teen robbery suspects

Friday, July 26th, 2013 Property Weird

Police said a pair of teen girls accused of a restaurant robbery were identified in part thanks to a picture they took of themselves before the crime. Investigators in Halmstad, Sweden, said two masked girls robbed a local restaurant and threatened staff with a large kitchen knife, and police dogs followed their scent to a home, The Local.se reported Thursday. Police said they found the ski masks and kitchen knife in the home, as well as two teenage girls. One of the girls had taken a cellphone picture of herself and the other suspect standing in front of a mirror wearing the masks and holding the knife.


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