DNA leads to burglary arrest – Times Daily

FLORENCE A Tennessee man has been arrested on burglary charges after his DNA was found at a business that was broken into last year.

James Bullock, an investigator with the Lauderdale County Sheriffs Office, said Marcus Orlandus Brown, 31, Covington, Tennessee, is charged with third-degree burglary, first-degree theft of property, first-degree criminal mischief and first-degree receiving stolen property.

Bullock said Brown is charged in connection with the Jan. 25, 2016, burglary of Haddocks Quick Start on Alabama 20 in the Central Heights community.

Bullock said Brown was arrested in Memphis and transported back to Florence.

He said DNA, left at the scene, was recovered along with other evidence during the course of the investigation.

The DNA sample was sent to the Alabama Department of Forensics to be analyzed and it got a positive hit.

And they determined the DNA at the business belonged to Marcus Brown, Bullock said.

Brown is out of jail on bail of $11,000.

Bullock said the case remains under investigation as authorities search for two other suspects.

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