Dumbo Thief Nabbed
November 18th, 2006
“Kenneth Hayes, 45, may spend the next 13 years in jail on multiple burglary and larceny charges thanks to the blood-stained tissue – saturated with his DNA – that he dropped when he broke into a film and video production company on Washington Street between Front and Water streets in 2004. He was arraigned on Nov. 2 on multiple counts of burglarly, larceny and criminal tresspass, according to the Brooklyn DA’s office.”
“Bio-Track began as a pilot program in Queens, in 2003. For years, DNA evidence has been used to solve murders, rapes and serious assaults, but not for burglaries.”
“The next natural step was to apply this amazing crime-solving tool to other crimes,” Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown wrote in his October 2006.
“Brooklyn precincts can now collect the DNA evidence and compare it against a state database.”
“Ferreria found the DNA link while investigating the theft of more than $15,700 in high-end computers and cameras from a film and video-production company with a suite of offices on the second floor of the DUMBO building.”
{CSI: DUMBO – DNA fingers suspect in 4 burglaries, Brooklyn Papers, 11/18/06}
January 17th, 2011 at 2:12 pm
[...] of burglaries in some of the office buildings in the area. The 55 Washington Street building was hit with thefts in 2006, until cops found DNA evidence that nabbed the criminal. In June, 2009, there was a string of six [...]