Thursday, March 15, 2012

Man shown twice on Page One _ painting window in one, taking wallet in another _ gets 30 days

A man identified in a front-page newspaper photo has been sentenced for theft, an act caught in another photo on the same front page.

Michael Millhouse, wearing a blue and black checkered coat, is painting decorative Christmas greetings on storefront windows in one photo published Dec. 13 in the Lewiston Tribune. The other image was taken from surveillance video footage that reportedly showed a then-unidentified man slipping a women's wallet in the pocket of that same coat and walking away.

Copy editors at the Tribune spotted the similarity of the person in the photos, and an employee the next morning …

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