China News Service, Shanghai, March 18 (Ren Xinyue and Li Shuzheng) The 40-year-old suspect looks very old in the surveillance video, like an old man in his sixties?
The reporter learned from the Shanghai police on the 18th that recently, the Shanghai police detected a series of burglaries. The suspect purchased a set of film and television silicone masks online, "disguised" as an elderly person, and sneaked into the community to commit serial thefts.
At about 2 o'clock in the morning on March 6, the Meilong Police Station of the Minhang Public Security Bureau received a report from multiple residents in a community claiming that their homes had been stolen. The criminal investigation detachment of the branch and the police from the police station immediately went to the scene to conduct an investigation and found that the homes of the four households that had been stolen were located in On the first floor, windows were broken into.
According to public video, an elderly man wearing a black coat, a purple mask and a dark gray knitted hat with suspicious movements entered the community the night before.
In the video, after the man entered the community, he did not come out. According to the residents, there were no elderly residents in similar attire in the community.
Through the traces left by the suspect in a certain resident's home, the police discovered that Tong, a criminal with a criminal record, was suspected of committing a major crime. However, Tong was only in his 40s this year, which was very different from the elderly man in the community on the video.
How does Tong in the video achieve "one-click face-changing"?
That night, the police captured the suspect Tong in a hotel in another province or city. In the suitcase that Tong carried, the police found all his disguise items, hydraulic pliers and other crime tools, and the stolen goods obtained from the theft.
The suspect bought a silicone mask for the elderly film and TV series online.
Photo courtesy of Minhang Branch of Shanghai Public Security Bureau
It turned out that Tong purchased a set of elderly film and television silicone masks on an online platform in an attempt to disguise himself and escape police investigation.
Film and television silicone masks are a special makeup technology used in movies, TV series or stage plays. They are made of special silicone or similar materials. They are usually customized products, and Tong used them for illegal theft.
After counting, the stolen items included more than 6,000 yuan in cash, gold pendants, jade bracelets, brand watches, etc., with a total value of more than 100,000 yuan.
At present, the criminal suspect Tong has been criminally detained by Minhang police in accordance with the law on suspicion of theft, and the case is under further trial.
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