Scan Provides Crime Lead
The Age
Friday October 10, 2008
A HIGH-TECH scan of a false passport has led to a breakthrough into an armed robbery at a Camberwell American Express subagency five years ago that netted $250,000 in cash and travellers' cheques.
The investigation into the crime, which involved a robber hiding in the office roof armed with a pistol and silencer, was restarted earlier this year when detectives subjected the passport to a photo-scan "eye-face" technique.Police revealed yesterday the scan identified Mikael Mann, 47, as the "most likely person" in the passport's photograph. Acting Detective Sergeant Ricky Fletcher told Melbourne Magistrates Court the passport had been left at an exchange in Vienna, Austria.Magistrate Phillip Goldberg told Mann and Vasko Jankovski, 42, who are in custody for unrelated matters, that he was satisfied they were relevant suspects and ordered they be transferred into police custody for three hours. -- STEVE BUTCHER
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