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[NYPost] Federal Sherlocks in Philadelphia used twee shopping site Etsy and a host of social media platforms, including Instagram and Vimeo, to nab a massage therapist accused of torching a cop car, according to a federal complaint.The suspect, 33-year-old Lore-Elisabeth Blumenthal, was identified by FBI agents who examined footage of a May 30 George Floyd protest and noticed her distinct forearm tattoo and a political T-shirt she was wearing when she allegedly set the police cruiser ablaze.
The T-shirt — which had the phrase "Keep the Im
The Sherlocks noticed a review on the page written by a username they later determined was linked to someone named Lore-Elisabeth in Philadelphia, according to the complaint.
They then searched the name on LinkedIn, which turned up a hit for a woman employed as a massage therapist in the city. On the company’s website, videos show a woman giving massages with a peace-sign forearm tattoo that matched Blumenthal’s.
I shouldn’t feel at all comfortable afterward, knowing that my gentle spirited, loving massage therapist had a firebombing fetish and was likely to out me for something I’d said.
The website listed a phone number for Blumenthal, which federal authorities used to track down her address in the Germantown section of the city.| Solid police work, guys. |
Her lawyer told the newspaper he would be questioning the investigative tactics as part of her defense.