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![the surveillance camera," recounted a still chuckling Cmdr. Ronald Freeman of the investigations branch. "He was skeptical at first but not so much as to not try it him-self."
"He said the lemon juice was burning his face and his eyes, and he was having trouble [seeing] and had to squint," said Sgt. Wally Long of the robbery squad.
But the pain was worth the pleasure Wheeler felt when he snapped a Polaroid picture of himself and he wasn't anywhere to be seen..
"When the Polaroid didn't show him, he thought it worked," Long said.
All that detectives could figure was that either the film was bad, Wheeler hadn't ad-justed the camera correctly or he had point-ed the camera away from his face when he snapped the photo.
"In any event, he went off and robbed the banks with lemon juice on his face," Free-man said. "He was shocked when we showed him the surveillance pictures."
Detectives had been tipped to his where-abouts in Lincoln-Lemington by informants who recognized him in one of the surveillance photos taken during the robberies. The photo had been telecast during the Pittsburgh Crime Stoppers Inc. segment of the 11 o'clock news April 19. Less than an](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/bafkreid7i5ez6vlukxyedk7v247slsr4gz3uuthdfdypylmbuzsty54jum)
