Google Street View CSI: The thieves, gangsters and killers who were brought to justice after getting photographed by the tech giant's camera cars

A Google Street View camera, which captures images from 360 degrees, may have helped solve a grisly village love triangle murder in Spain. Italian mafia fugitive Gioacchino Gammino, who used to be one of Italy's most wanted mobsters, was caught in late 2021 after 20 years on the run when detectives spotted him on a Google Street View picture taken in Spain This is an undated picture of mafioso Gioacchino Gammino The 63-year-old had changed his name, worked as a chef and opened a fruit and vegetable shop The picture shows two men, one of whom closely resembled Gammino. Muggers pounce on teenage victim Dutch police arrested two brothers on robbery charges in June 2009 after their victim spotted a picture of them following him on Google Street View. A Google Street View image also helped British officers to make an arrest in 2012 in the unsolved 2009 theft of David and Rebecca Soanes' caravan after their then 11-year-old son spotted a potential suspect on the imaging site Parents David and Rebecca Soanes hoped for a breakthrough after their son Reuben stumbled across the image in March 2010 while he and his school friends surfed Street View to find pictures of their homes The picture shows a mystery figure lurking on the family's driveway at about the time the white Abbey Aventura holiday vehicle vanished The theft happened after Mr Soanes left the family home for just one hour in June 2009. Two robbers who broke into a house in Oklahoma City, US, and held the owner at gunpoint in July 2011 went undetected for three years until a Street View image emerged of them near the crime scene The victim said that when her neighbor sent over the images from Google Street View in 2014, she instantly recognized the men as those who robbed her 'They pulled a gun and held me for over an hour.