The suspect of a two week old theft case was arrested after allegedly attempting the same crime from the same location.
On Wednesday, September 28, a male suspect stole a Honda generator from Rural King in Jasper. Surveillance cameras captured the picture of the suspect and the act, and those images were shared and distributed across social media in the following days. State Police investigators hoped the information would reveal the identity of the suspect.
On Tuesday, October 11, a Rural King employee believed he observed a customer, later identified as 38 year old Virgil Ross of Evansville, attempting to steal an identical Honda generator as what was stolen on September 28. The employee recognized Ross from the surveillance picture and contacted the Jasper Police Department. Jasper officers detained Ross and contacted the State Police so that investigators could continue the investigation.
Officers agreed that the photograph was that of Ross and placed him into custody and transported, without incident, to the Dubois County Security Center and was charged with Theft.