Yes this was last year . <| sep |> I work for a news station that was in a similar situation once . A grocery store provided police with the wrong picture and then released that to us through Crime Stoppers . The guy in the wrong photo went to the police detective , who cleared him . But the detective didn ' t bother letting any of the outlets that ran the story know . He also didn ' t respond to our phone calls asking for followup information . We wound up getting sued , but wound up getting dropped as defendants and they went after the grocery store instead . News stations don ' t go posting store surveillance camera images all willy nilly . They most likely got the picture and info from police in a press release and passed it on . Stores don ' t just give that video to media except through police as part of an investigation .