FBI Detroit has arrested a person after recognizing the footwear allegedly worn throughout 4 robberies in a sequence of TikTok movies.
The person, 22-year-old Chozen Hannah, has reportedly been arrested in relation to 2 armed robberies of 7-Eleven shops, an armed theft of a Marathon fuel station, and a theft at an Previous West Tobacco.
In accordance with experiences, police had been anonymously tipped off about Hannah's TikTok movies, during which he was allegedly carrying the identical footwear described by eyewitnesses, together with related hair colours.
Investigations by Dearborn Police began on December 1 when a person carrying black pants, a black hooded sweatshirt, a black ski masks, a black backpack with pink floral accents and white footwear allegedly robbed a 7-Eleven with a black handgun.
The next three robberies happened over the following two months till February 1.
Hannah was posting to his TikTok account throughout this time span, during which he usually filmed himself dancing and lip-syncing, importing them below the title @chozenwrld the place he at present has over 140,000 followers.
It was famous by investigators that the footwear worn throughout the robberies appeared related in look to these sported by the 22-year-old in a video courting again to September 24, 2020.
Though the footwear pointed police in his course, his pink and purple hair noticed in some movies additionally appeared to correlate.
In accordance with Detroit Information, investigators discovered Hannah inside a house in Redford final Wednesday, and he has since admitted to all 4 crimes. Newsweek is attempting to confirm this data.
Hannah's bodily attributes reportedly match these given by eyewitness accounts, however countered others. In accordance with Detroit Information, some victims estimated that the robber was a taller, white man.
FBI Detroit adopted the case from Dearborn Police and reportedly started surveilling Hannah on February 9 outdoors his house for a number of days. After monitoring down a telephone quantity belonging to the person, the FBI obtained a search warrant for the mobile phone's location date.
Information seen by investigators reportedly positioned the telephone on the geographic places of the armed robberies on the reported occasions for every incident.
Detroit Information reported that Hannah is at present being held with out bond whereas awaiting a detention listening to in federal courtroom on Monday.
Newsweek has contacted FBI Detroit for remark and additional data.
It would not be the primary time a TikTok account has resulted to an arrest. In January, a Texas lady was arrested after a TikTok video confirmed two unlawful lemurs in her care.
The video recorded two lemurs in a cage, with on-screen textual content studying: "I discovered King Julian in San Antonio with a particular woman."
Officers had been then capable of establish her after monitoring down her social media enterprise named "Alamo Metropolis Frenchie Cartel," reported to be a canine breeding enterprise.
Investigators and Animal Management Providers reportedly later visited the house the place they discovered one alive lemur and the stays of one other.
UPDATE 02/28/22, 12:06 p.m. ET: This text was up to date to replicate that the investigation was taken over by FBI Detroit.
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