NYPD has tightened security on the Brooklyn Bridge after unknown individuals climbed both towers and replaced the existing American flags with bleach ones.
Photo: Paul Martinka
[From article]
The intruders who beat NYPD anti-terror patrols to plant white flags atop the Brooklyn Bridge thought they were crafty by covering the lights with aluminum pans, but they left DNA evidence behind on some of the zip-ties, sources told The Post on Thursday.
Now cops are hoping to capitalize on the misstep and find a match in their database.
Investigators are also scouring social media, pulling phone logs and running hundreds of license plates, police sources said. They are tracking down all calls made from the bridge around the time the flags were replaced early Tuesday.
They obtained the online handles of at least two of the suspects and are going through computers records for their proper names, the sources said.
[From article]
The intruders who beat NYPD anti-terror patrols to plant white flags atop the Brooklyn Bridge thought they were crafty by covering the lights with aluminum pans, but they left DNA evidence behind on some of the zip-ties, sources told The Post on Thursday.
Now cops are hoping to capitalize on the misstep and find a match in their database.
Investigators are also scouring social media, pulling phone logs and running hundreds of license plates, police sources said. They are tracking down all calls made from the bridge around the time the flags were replaced early Tuesday.
They obtained the online handles of at least two of the suspects and are going through computers records for their proper names, the sources said.
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The humiliating breach came two years after flags were stolen from same towers by thieves who have still not been caught.
http://nypost.com/2014/07/24/cops-find-dna-on-white-flag-put-on-brooklyn-bridge/
Cops find DNA on zip-ties of potential white flag suspects
By Kirstan Conley and Natalie O'Neill
New York Post
July 24, 2014 | 7:20pm
The humiliating breach came two years after flags were stolen from same towers by thieves who have still not been caught.
http://nypost.com/2014/07/24/cops-find-dna-on-white-flag-put-on-brooklyn-bridge/
Cops find DNA on zip-ties of potential white flag suspects
By Kirstan Conley and Natalie O'Neill
New York Post
July 24, 2014 | 7:20pm
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