| Scenario |
Patrol officers in Los Angeles stop a vehicle for a
traffic violation, discover it is a stolen vehicle and arrest the driver,
Richard
Coleman. During booking, police photograph Coleman’s face and tattoos
on his hand and neck. They enter a description and photographs of the
tattoos into the booking record.
Three weeks later, investigators in Denver
are working a home invasion case where a male in a ski mask broke
into the home of an elderly couple
and beat and robbed them. Although they never saw his face, the victims
told police the perpetrator had a spider tattoo on his right hand
and the name "Goldie" tattooed across the back of his neck.
Denver investigators perform an N DEx search, using the only information
they
have - the sex of the perpetrator as well as the locations and descriptions
of the tattoos. |
