Santa Cruz, California...
In the last six months, officers have used the hand held device close to 50 times and over half identified a suspect already in the system. It's even helping make more arrests.
"Just last week we had a guy who we stopped for drug sales and normally it would've been a misdemeanor citation...We used the finger print machine and found out he had a felony warrant...Then we found he had heroin on him and scales," said Sgt. Flippo.
