A crook disguised himself as an old man using a hyperrealistic face mask to allegedly carry out a £11,000 heist.
Cops were called after four flats on the first floor of a housing block were broken into through their windows.
The police began studying CCTV footage in a bid to crack the case.
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Cash and jewellery worth more than 100,000 CNY (£11,000) were swiped from the apartments in Shanghai, China.
They found a lead when they spotted an elderly man entering the building but not leaving it.
Officers also found clues left behind in one of the burgled flats.
The clues led them to a man with a criminal record in the police database.
But the police were left scratching their heads.
The suspect – a man in his 40s surnamed Tong – looked nothing like the senior citizen caught on CCTV.
Nevertheless, they tracked him down – possibly via a SIM card, according to local media.
In less than 24 hours, officers arrested him in a hotel nearly 40 miles away.
He was found with all the stolen loot.
The police also found him with tools he’d used to carry out the heist.
Incredibly, one of them was a silicone old-man mask, as reported on Need To Know.
Tong confessed that he’d bought the prosthetic online in a bid to throw investigators off the scent.
The police probe continues.
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