New York State Trooper: The art of taking a mugshot

SHE looks harmless enough, but Eleanor Black is anything but an innocent party. In fact, she’s sticking it to you. Quite literally.

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THERE’S a new page in the dodgy mugshot folder.

Eleanor Black’s face has been plastered on ‘Wanted’ poster after she failed to appear in court.

She is pictured poking out her tongue to authorities with a cheeky glint in her eye — and it’s a look that has the internet talking.

The mug shot was part of ‘Warrant Wednesday’, a weekly listing of New York’s most wanted.

With the picture being shared around the world, it’s unlikely she’ll be in hiding for long.

But she’s far from the first to have a stand-out mugshot.

ELEANOR BLACKWanted by the New York State PoliceTroop G, SP COBLESKILLWanted for grand larceny 3rd degree, criminal...

Posted by New York State Police on Wednesday, 17 June 2015

State Trooper Mark Cepiel told news.com.au it’s nothing out of the ordinary.

“We’ve had mugshots where people refuse to cooperate.

“Literally the troopers are standing there holding them.”

Cepiel reckons he’s seen it all in his two-decade service with the Troopers; criminals who are so intoxicated they can’t keep their balance, eyes “so droopy” they can’t see straight.

Then there are those who want time to do their make-up, in order make a memorable mugshot.

But, “as long as it’s a clear photo of the person, which would enable anyone later on to identify the person, then that’s really what we’re looking for,” he said.

Could that explain these disasters?

Shocked at the crime ... Ashley Stabler, 23, has a mugshot to remember, clearly petrified by something, as she is charged with allegedly driving with a suspended license, no proof of insurance and improper plates. Picture: Tulsa County Jail

Marsha Yumi Perry, 36, surrendered to Washougal police in Washington State after an officer indic

Mugshot of Patricia Krentcil (44). Krentcil was charged after she allegedly took her five-year-old daughter to a tanning booth where the child suffered serious burns. Krentcil, faces a felony child endangerment charge after being arrested in Nutley, New Jersey on 04/2012.

Carlos Sosa Rodriguez This mugshot went viral in 2012 after this man, who allegedly went by "Halfy" was charged with soliciting prostitution. His flattened skull came, he said, from a car accident he got into while on drugs. "I was driving, and I hit a pole, and I flew out the front window and landed on my head," he told The Miami New Times.

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