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What role does と play in

> 警視庁は犯人を音原田(おとはらだ)九郎(くろう)無職42歳と断定説得を開始するもようです
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What role does と play in 「無職42歳と断定説得を開始する」?
Didn't you hear a long pause between 断定 and 説得? It's essentially two
sentences.

> 警視庁は犯人を音原田九郎、無職、42歳 **と** 断定(しました)。説得を開始するもようです。

Omission of する/しました is very common in news articles and such. See: [体言止め can
only be applied to サ変名詞 when する is just する (and not past or passive),
right?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/77604/5010)

断定する is one of the [verbs that take arguments that look like
`AをB(だ)と`](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/55169/5010). AをBと断定する means
"to judge/conclude (with 100% confidence) that A is B". So in short, と in bold
is like "as" in English.

> 警視庁は犯人を音原田九郎、無職、42歳 **と** 断定(しました)。説得を開始するもようです。  
>  The Police Department identified the perpetrator **as** Kuro Otoharada,
> unemployed, age 42. They are going to start persuading him.
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