A fugitive suspected of abusing a 10-year-old from Indiana has been arrested. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) used facial recognition technology and declared the suspect's US passport photo in December was run though a Facial Analysis, Comparison, and Evaluation (FACE) test, and it matched photos taken almost two decades ago.
Charles Hollin, 61, was arrested in Salem, Oregon last week at the Walmart where he works. He had both Oregon and Minnesota driver's licenses with his picture on them. The agency said it did not perform a biometrics analysis before with those databases because they have not opened up their DMV roles for the bureau to search.
The Department of Motor Vehicles for Minnesota and Oregon were not searched due to the fact that it was prohibited by law.
Hollin abandoned the girl and then vanished
Hollin vanished when Indiana authorities tried to arrest him in February, 2000. The authorities suspect that Hollin abducted a 10-year-old child, put a stocking mask over her head, drove to a secluded area, and then abused her. They suspect he left the girl naked on an isolated road, where she was found by a passerby. The authorities declared that he went by the identity of Andrew David Hall, an 8-year-old boy killed in a 1975 Kentucky auto crash.
Hollin was able to avoid justice for a long time but he was finally caught.
There is a huge database to identify people
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) states that the bureau has access to 412 million images as part of its face-recognition database. Most images are photographs of people who have committed no crime.
The bureau's FACE unit contains 30 million mug shots, has access to the State Department's visa and passport database,driver license photos from 16 states, and the biometric database maintained by the Defense Department.
