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Sadik Hossain

West Virginia man is charged with destroying license plate cameras. Then 20,000 people online offer him alibis: ‘Couldn’t have been him’

A 20-year-old man from Gerrardstown, West Virginia, is facing two felony charges after deputies say he was involved in cutting down automatic license plate reader cameras made by Flock Safety. The man, Wesley Jackson, was identified by Monongalia County deputies as one of the people responsible for the damage.

As found by Brobible, a Facebook post about the case from WDTV News drew more than 29,000 comments. Many of the comments were not serious. Instead, people flooded the section with joking claims that Jackson was somewhere else doing good deeds at the time the cameras were destroyed.

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