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By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
Well, you can’t get much more high profile than this: a GIANT billboard in the middle of Times Square in the Big Apple.
The FBI announced Friday that it was unveiling a digital billboard in Times Square that will highlight wanted fugitives, missing persons and high-priority security messages.
“Most people come to Times Square to be famous, these guys are going to be infamous,” said FBI spokesman Richard Kolko.
The FBI said the billboard “is part of a nationwide initiative made possible through a partnership with Clear Channel Outdoor, an advertising company that’s providing the space as a public service, which will enable the FBI to highlight those individuals who we’re looking for the most in a given area: violent criminals, kidnap victims, missing kids, bank robbers, and more.”
The FBI has access to similar billboards around the country.
“With millions of people passing through Times Square every year, there is no better way to draw attention to our most wanted fugitives than through this billboard initiative,”Joseph M. Demarest, head of the N.Y. FBI said in a statement.
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