Jul 19, 2012 6:05pm

A boxer could be facing jail time following his most recent boxing match, thanks to a bloody nose and a resourceful FBI agent.

Martin Tucker, a light welterweight, won his last boxing match, but a bloody cotton swab discarded at the ring was picked up by undercover FBI agent Robert Schmitz, who was investigating a bank robbery.

Schmitz suspected Tucker was involved in a 2009 armed robbery of a credit union in Temperance, Mich. Subsequent tests of the DNA collected from the bloody swab proved his hunch correct, according to court filings.

Tucker, a roofer and part-time boxer, was arrested this week, and ordered held withoutbail Wednesday. Hes accused of using a semi-automatic weapon in the theft of nearly $5,400.

One other man involved in the robbery, Quentin Sherer, was arrested in November 2011.

During his investigation of the robbery, Schmitz began looking through Sherers social networking profiles and found a picture of Sherer and Tucker together, according to court documents filed by Schmitz. Tucker matched the physical description of the unknown suspect in the 2009 robbery. Schmitz began looking into Tucker.

In a Myspace Internet search, [Schmitz] learned that Tucker was featured in a boxing match in Toledo, Ohio, the affidavit reads. During the match, Tucker sustained a bloody nose, and [Schmitz] was able to obtain a discarded Q-tip that contained Tuckers blood.

That Q-tip was submitted to an FBI lab, where it was found that Tuckers DNA matched the DNA found on a mask worn by one of the alleged bank robbers, as well as the steering wheel of the getaway vehicle.

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DNA From Boxer's Bloody Swab Leads to Arrest