Robbery suspect's full-frontal photo

Talk about a close-up.

Sometimes security camera photos and footage seem as though they will offer investigators little help -- maybe it's a bad angle, or the suspect is wearing a mask, or the footage is grainy.

Sometimes they are so dead on that they look like they could have been taken by a member of the suspect's family.

Here's a case that seems more like the latter than the former. Check out this image, released Monday by the Laurel police.

The bank robbery suspect. (Laurel Police)

That man, they said in a news release, entered the Chevy Chase Bank at 13600 Baltimore Ave. at 10:33 a.m. on Monday. He passed a teller a note requesting currency, police said, holding his hand in his pocket suggesting that he had a weapon. The teller gave him the money, according to police, and he fled in a dark Ford Mustang.

Beyond that image, police provided more details: He was described as a black male in his 40s or 50s, between 6 foot and 6-foot4, with a salt-and-pepper goatee. He was wearing a blue winter jacket with gray lining, black pants and brown Timberland boots, police said.

Let's see if they catch him.

-- David P. Marino-Nachison