New Jersey family's picture catches theft in the making

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The picture shows a man allegedly taking John Myers' bag as his family gets photographed. Police later arrested a suspect.


(CNN) -- In today's technology-laden society, hearing of crimes solved or cold cases cracked with state-of-the-art tech tools has become commonplace. But for one New Jersey family all it took to catch an alleged thief was a camera and a little luck.

John Myers and his family from Bloomfield, New Jersey, were visiting Madison, Wisconsin, to attend a friend's wedding Saturday at the state Capitol.

According to Myers, the family went outside after the ceremony to take pictures. He decided it would be a good idea to take a family portrait with his digital camera, and he set a bag down next to the building before stepping away to snap the shot.

Unbeknown to him, Myers -- as he captured the scene -- also caught a person red-handed stealing his bag.

"Looking back now it wasn't a good idea to leave my bag so far away," Myers told CNN on Tuesday. "But I just wasn't thinking of it at the time."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/24/new.jersey.theft.photo/index.html?hpt=C2

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1. They're lucky the bomb squad didn't come and blow it up n/t