Enlarge / Nearly two decade old photos of a suspected child molester matched a 2007 passport photo via a biometrics analysis by the FBI, leading to Charles Hollin’s arrest in Oregon. (credit: FBI / Aurich Lawson)
A fugitive suspected of molesting a 10-year-old Indiana girl 17 years ago has been arrested after the Federal Bureau of Investigation employed facial recognition technology, according to court documents. The bureau said the suspect’s US passport photo in December was run though a Facial Analysis, Comparison, and Evaluation (FACE) test, and it matched photos taken before he disappeared nearly two decades ago.
Charles Hollin, 61, was arrested in Salem, Oregon, last week, at a Wal-Mart where he works. He had a Minnesota and a Oregon driver’s license with his picture on it. The agency said it did not perform a biometrics analysis with those databases because they have not opened up their DMV roles for the bureau to search. The bureau noted in a court filing that the government maintains “top secret” databases containing biometric profiles.
“The Department of Motor Vehicles for Minnesota and Oregon were not searched due to the fact it was prohibited by law. Additional searches were conducted in various federal secret and top secret databases. All of these searches were negative,” Todd Prewitt, an FBI agent, wrote in court documents. (PDF)
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