A burglar in the US was arrested after he left behind ‘key evidence’ at the crime scene — an unflushed toilet. Andrew David Jensen’s faecal matter in the toilet bowl at a home in los Angeles’ suburb of Thousand Oaks matched the DNA on an FBI database.
The 42-year-old was arrested on July 28, nearly a year after the residential burglary in October 2016, the Ventura County Star reported. While searching the crime scene, police found faecal matter in an unflushed toilet that possibly had the suspect’s DNA, Detective Tim lohman of the Thousand Oaks Police Department was quoted as saying. Authorities took a sample and submitted the evidence to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office Forensic Services Bureau for processing. Once the DNA profile was processed, scientists submitted the results to the Combined DNA Information System to see if the profile matched a known suspect, police said.