Among the images distributed by the Keene Police Department was one that investigators in Morgantown, W. Va. believe shows fans of the West Virginia University football team celebrating a victory by setting a fire and tearing down a stop sign. That event also took place Saturday.

But one of the people depicted in the photos appears to have been 600 miles away during the unrest that unfolded alongside the Pumpkin Festival.

Keene, N.H., officials this week released two dozen images from social media, video clips and public submissions as they seek to identify the people involved in Saturday's riots.


Authorities in New Hampshire said Thursday that, upon closer inspection, they do not believe the picture was taken in Keene, which recorded 84 arrests over the weekend, dozens of injuries and a trail of property damage.

City of Keene

It's a closer crop of a picture sent out earlier in the week by WVU police.

In the wider shot, a person is wearing clothes that bear the WVU insignia. Police in Morgantown have not announced any arrests that took place following the release of the image there.

"After reviewing the image in question it appears that an anonymous source sent it to us by mistake and that it was actually taken somewhere other than Keene, NH," Detective Joel Chidester said via e-mail.

He did not immediately respond to questions about how the department vetted the other images it had released.



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