öÏÓãÊÓƵapp police arrested and charged a man in connection with a 2022 break and enter after a blood sample taken at the scene identified the suspect.
öÏÓãÊÓƵapp police arrested and charged a man in connection with a 2022 break and enter after a blood sample taken at the scene identified the suspect.
Three years later, öÏÓãÊÓƵapp police believe they got their man.
Police arrested a wanted man Monday in connection with a June 2022 break and enter after a match in the National DNA Data Bank.
The break-in occurred at a business in öÏÓãÊÓƵapp, with the suspect breaking a window and reaching inside to open the door before stealing a cash box. Blood was located near the broken glass and sent to the Centre of Forensic Sciences.
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Results came back within a couple of months with a match in the data bank, police said, but they couldn’t locate the suspect.
A 36-year-old öÏÓãÊÓƵapp man was picked up on police’s warrant “in another jurisdiction†and charged with break and enter. He will appear in öÏÓãÊÓƵapp court Sept. 2.
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