Plainclothes officer Luis Novalez knew he had his man the minute he laid eyes on the guy trying hard to blend into a crowd getting on a CTA bus near Clark and Division streets.
There was red dye splattered all over his jeans -- dye apparently hidden in a pack of money from a bank robbed just an hour ago.
"At that point I knew this is the guy,” said Novalez, with the Near North police district. “There’s no way he’s getting away.”
And he didn't. Nice job guys.