The Associated Press are reporting that Dutch police arrested twin brothers on suspicion of robbery after the victim spotted a picture of them on Google's Street View. The victim, a 14 year old boy, reported to Dutch police last September that he had been robbed of €165 and his cell phone after two men dragged him off his bicycle in Groningen. As he was unable to identify the attackers, investigations did not proceed very far. That was until the boy found himself on Street View and two men who believed to be the attackers. The location was correct as well.

Faces are blurred in the Netherlands' version of Street View, so the police requested the unblurred images from Google. Google complied, and the Dutch police reportedly recognized one of the alleged attackers.

Dutch police report that the use of Street View as being unique for them.

The full AP report can be found on the CBS News site.

The Google Street View cameras are catching quite a few things which you would think might cause the car to stop. As well as imminent thefts, it has managed to capture house fires (with no fire engines in attendance) and photographed deer being run over by the Google car.

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