Pierre D. Martin, the man who marked Chicago's first arrest thanks to facial recognition software, was sentenced to 22 years in prison this week for his part in a 2013 armed robbery.
Martin, a 35-year-old convicted felon, was arrested last year after the city of Chicago used a $5.4 million federal grant to purchase
NeoFace technology, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
"This case is a great example that these high-tech tools are helping to enhance identification and lead us to defendants that might otherwise evade capture," Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez said in a statement.
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This week, Martin was sentenced to 22 years in prison for a February 2013 robbery in which he reportedly pulled a gun on a 20-year-old man on a Chicago Transit Authority Pink Line train. Martin demanded the man's phone and then escaped.
Using the NeoFace technology, police compared a CTA surveillance photo of Martin's face to its 4.5 million criminal booking shots and identified him.
He later pleaded guilty to a similar robbery on a Pink Line train in January 2013, according to the Sun-Times.
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