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YouTube has made millions of people amateur filmmakers — and one Missouri man an amateur sleuth.

A man whom the FBI dubbed the "Crutch Bandit" after he robbed an Albuquerque bank at gunpoint Jan. 15 while on a crutch was arrested in Kansas City on Tuesday after being recognized from a YouTube clip of his Albuquerque exploits.

FBI officials said Khao Luong, 30, was the man who entered a Bank of Albuquerque branch on Wyoming Boulevard just north of Paseo del Norte on Jan. 15, one hand on a crutch, the other on a gun.

He fired two shots, injured nobody and hobbled away with an undisclosed amount of money, the FBI said.

The episode was caught on the bank's surveillance video and aired prominently on TV news stations and, apparently, YouTube.

It was from a posting on the popular Internet video site that a Kansas City bank teller who knows Luong told FBI agents he recognized the man in the video clip.

Luong was arrested at his brother's house, FBI Supervisory Special Agent Stephan Marshall said. Luong was still using his crutch, which Marshall said is likely due to an atrophied leg from when he had polio as a child.

Marshall said this is the first time that he knows of that YouTube has been used to catch a criminal.

"There was even a comment posted on YouTube about who he was," Marshall said.

Albuquerque FBI agents said that two days before the "Crutch Bandit" struck the bank, the same man using a crutch is suspected of striking a nail salon on Menaul Boulevard, receiving a manicure and pedicure before pulling a gun and taking a vehicle from someone in the salon.