DNA From a Boxing Fighter Leads to Bank Robbery Arrest
- 12 years ago
DNA From a Boxing Fighter Leads to Bank Robbery Arrest - as part of the news series by GeoBeats.
A suspected bank robber was identified after the FBI matched DNA from a 2009 crime scene in Temperance, Michigan to blood taken from a discarded cotton swab at a boxing match in Toledo, Ohio three years later. The boxer, whose sample was taken, is a lead suspect in an armed robbery investigation, and he has been arrested without bail, pending a trial for the three year old crime. One of the other robbers has been in prison since 2011, but police have just now caught up with Martin Tucker, a roofer and part time light welterweight boxer.
The Monroe County Community Credit Union was robbed on July 16, 2009 by two armed gunmen, who made off with about 53 hundred dollars in a get away car driven by a third suspect. The investigators targeted Tucker after he matched the description of one of the gunmen and was seen in pictures with the convicted suspect on the social networking website Myspace. Although Tucker won the boxing match that night, a bloody nose has led to his likely defeat in the Michigan legal system.
A suspected bank robber was identified after the FBI matched DNA from a 2009 crime scene in Temperance, Michigan to blood taken from a discarded cotton swab at a boxing match in Toledo, Ohio three years later. The boxer, whose sample was taken, is a lead suspect in an armed robbery investigation, and he has been arrested without bail, pending a trial for the three year old crime. One of the other robbers has been in prison since 2011, but police have just now caught up with Martin Tucker, a roofer and part time light welterweight boxer.
The Monroe County Community Credit Union was robbed on July 16, 2009 by two armed gunmen, who made off with about 53 hundred dollars in a get away car driven by a third suspect. The investigators targeted Tucker after he matched the description of one of the gunmen and was seen in pictures with the convicted suspect on the social networking website Myspace. Although Tucker won the boxing match that night, a bloody nose has led to his likely defeat in the Michigan legal system.