BlackburnNews.com file photo of the Chatham-Kent Police Service Headquarters. (Photo by Jason Viau)BlackburnNews.com file photo of the Chatham-Kent Police Service Headquarters. (Photo by Jason Viau)
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DNA Evidence Leads To Arrest

A 35-year-old man is facing charges after his DNA matched up with evidence taken from the scene of a break and enter in Chatham.

Police say officers collected the evidence while they were investigating a break-in at a business on Park Ave. W late last September.

Investigators later sent the evidence to the Centre of Forensic Sciences where officials were able to match it up with DNA from a Chatham man.

Officers were able to locate the man on Grand Ave. E near Taylor Ave. yesterday afternoon and arrested him.

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