Dip Leads to Arrest

[justintempler]

Source

Tobacco spit leads to charges in Wis. safe theft
Associated Press
Tue Apr 21, 9:00 pm ET

LA CROSSE, Wis. – A tobacco chewing habit led to charges against two men accused of stealing a safe that was bolted to the floor of a town of Campbell tavern. A criminal complaint said a DNA profile was developed from a sample taken from the trail of chewing tobacco spit leading away from the Sher-Bear Tavern after the theft Feb. 5.

The DNA matched a 21-year-old man, who was charged Monday with burglary, theft, criminal damage to property and possession of drug paraphernalia.

The complaint said a search of his vehicle found a receipt for a hotel room rented to another 21-year-old man after the burglary. He was charged Monday with burglary, theft and criminal damage to property.

A fisherman found the safe Feb. 9 on a sandbar in the Kaskaskia River near Carlyle, Ill.

___

Information from: La Crosse Tribune, http://www.lacrossetribune.com

[Soft Morning, City!]

Note to all criminals: Instead of leaving a tobacco spit DNA trail, try snus! No spitting necessary!

[GenuineSpirit]

I've always been an advocate of "just swallow" :lol:

[sgreger1]

LOLOLO, that guy must be so pissed.

[hoss]

Note to all criminals: Instead of leaving a tobacco spit DNA trail, try snus! No spitting necessary!

LOL, my thought exactly!!! :lol:

[chainsnuser]

Yeah, since these new DNA-methods were introduced some years ago, with every cigarette butt that I littered and every snus-portion that I spat somewhere I always thought that God may prevent that the place may once become a site of crime and I probably be the prime suspect.

I guess as many innocent people will end in jail or "on the chair" as already have been convicted due to these freaky and with absolute certainty imprecise ballistic investigations that are so prominent in police-movies.

Just a few weeks ago a bestial murder has taken place near a lake that I visited pretty often. My first thought was: hopefully they get the bastard, my second thought was: oh, I've littered many cigarette-butts and snus-portions there over the years. They already have caught the bastard, but the lake now has a bad name for me.

Otherwise I really appreciate all progresses in police-work.

Cheers!

[deebocools]

as far as I know(which isn't much) cig butts could only really be used as evidence if it came from somewhere really specific- otherwise It just proves that you smoked a cigarette somewhere close enough for the butt to blow to. And who knows how many different peoples DNA they could find in all the butts