A man suspected of abusing a 10-year-old girl from Indiana in the US has been arrested thanks to face recognition technology, after 17 years on the run.Charles Hollin, 61, was arrested in Salem, Oregon last week after the suspect's US passport photo in December was run though a Facial Analysis, Comparison, and Evaluation (FACE) test.His passport application image was matched against photos taken almost two decades ago.Hollin 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.According to authorities, he had assumed the identity of Andrew David Hall, an 8-year-old boy killed in a 1975 Kentucky auto crash.
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