Jose Japla-Yanes, 34, of Hartford, CT, was arraigned in Superior Court Thursday, after he allegedly tried to lure a 10-year-old girl into his van, and exposed himself to her while she walked to her school bus stop Monday morning.

Police said the incident took place on Stonington Street in Hartford. A concerned citizen helped the little girl and called police.

Jalpa-Yanes has a wife and three children ages 6, 12 and 14, according to his lawyer who also stated in court Jalpa-Yanes was born in Mexico but has lived and worked in Connecticut for the last 18 years. He works for his own construction company.

Jalpa-Yanes, who had no prior arrest record was charged with public indecency, risk of injury, and operating under a suspended license. Jalpa-Yanes was arrested at his residence, 37 Barker Street, on Wednesday with no incident.

He was arraigned, held on $500,000 bond with orders to stay away from minors, expect for his own children, and required to surrender his passport.

Meet Sgt. O’Hare of the Hartford PD who used BriefCam to locate and arrest a suspected child predator just last week at the BriefCam booth at ASIS 2017 in Dallas.

Hartford Police said they were able to track Jalap-Yanes down and make his arrest thanks to BriefCam video analytic technology the Hartford PD is now utilizing in their department daily. BriefCam allows them to watch hours of footage in a matter of minutes.

“So this has become a force multiplier for us, this strips away a lot of dead time in policing. I literally can watch days of video in less than hours even minutes sometimes seconds and capture what I’m looking for,” Sgt. Johnmichael O’Hare explained.

Officers can select a certain section of the city where they have cameras located. From there, they can choose a window of time they want to monitor and narrow down what appears on the screen based on vehicle description or type, or view only pedestrians, and so on.

After all those selections are made, police can view the footage with the narrowed down activity on the screen. The technology also allows hours of footage to play back simultaneously.

The technology was used in this manner in the case of Jalpa-Yanes to place what police believe was his white van at the alleged crime location. Police added they were able to use the surveillance to build up their case one step further.

“We went back between these hours 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. every day, every school day for the last 10 schools days and we did the same program and we were able to see his van September 5th doing the same thing in the same neighborhood at the same time. He actually circles the block three times, between 7:06 and 7:20 in the morning school bus time,” Sgt. O’Hare said.

Hartford police said the technology has been in place for two years, but is gaining new uses and new developments all the time. They said they are using it beyond solving crimes, including for security at large crowd events, for tracking pedestrian and bicyclist patterns as a means to look for changes or improvements needed.

BriefCam helps the world’s leading law enforcement, public safety, government and business organizations transform raw video into actionable security and business intelligence. It enables customers like the Hartford PD to review hours of video within minutes, rapidly pinpoint people and objects of interest, proactively receive real-time notifications of critical events, and dynamically analyze key performance indicators.