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[UPDATED] Facebook IDs Armed Robbery Suspect in Less Than 2 Hours

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an altered image of the man who allegedly robbed the bridgeville rite-aid store on june 21, 2017. his face has been replaced with an "unamused" emoji.

This morning, the Bridgeville Police Department asked Facebook users for help in identifying a man suspected of robbing the Washington Avenue Rite-Aid store at 8:48 a.m. today.

Less than two hours after sharing some surveillance camera photos, police chief Chad King was thanking the department’s Facebook followers for quickly and definitively identifying the suspect.

UPDATE: It only took 10-15 minutes for Facebook users to identify the suspect.

“The actor has been positively identified and we will be obtaining an arrest warrant within the next few hours!” the chief wrote.

a screencapture of the bridgeville police facebook post that helped lead to the capture of an armed robbery suspect.

UPDATE #2: After the suspect’s girlfriend identified him to police, chief Chad King promised that he would removed the suspect’s photo from Facebook, so we’ve updated the story with an altered photos.