Police: Subject of Muppet police sketch nabbed in North Texas

The sketch of the suspect which went viral.



(Lamar County Sheriff's Department) The sketch of the suspect which went viral.



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A man who was the subject of a police sketch that went viral almost overnight has been arrested, said Deputy Jeff Springer with the Lamar County Sheriff's Department.

Deputy Jeff Springer of the Lamar County Sheriff's Department says Glenn Edwin Rundles, 32, the subject of a police sketch that went viral almost overnight, has been arrested.



Two weeks ago, the department released a sketch of a suspect wanted for robbing two women at knife-point on Jan. 16 in Paris, Texas.

The sketch got more attention than the crime. The drawing looked a lot like a cartoon, a fact not lost on national media outlets. Some described the suspect as looking more like a Muppet than a man.

A Paris police officer, however, noticed a similarity between the man in the sketch and a known person of interest in the case, according to the eParis Extra.



Glenn Edwin Rundles, 32, was arrested Jan. 28 in connection with the Jan. 16 robbery. Rundles had been arrested and bonded out on unrelated charges on Jan. 23.



He is now being held on charges of aggravated robbery, indecent exposure, burglary of a habitation, criminal mischief and evading arrest after attempting to flee from police serving the second warrant, according to the eParis Extra. Rundles bond is set at $135,000.

Springer said the department didn't intend for the sketch to be a target of sport. Authorities just wanted the suspect found and arrested, he said.

"He started to try and hide his identity after he saw the sketch in the papers and even had the tattoo on his neck covered up with another design in an attempt to mask it," said Springer.

Springer said the sketch was drawn from the description the two victims gave officials and sketched by an artist that has worked for the department for some time.







