... Shitty.

Accused Burglar Doesn't Flush Toilet, Leaves DNA for Police

VENTURA, Calif. (AP) -- A man accused of burglarizing a Southern California home took a bathroom break and left DNA evidence in the toilet that led to his arrest, an investigator said Tuesday.

The suspect "did his business and didn't flush it" during the October break-in in the city of Thousand Oaks, said Detective Tim Lohman of the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.

That allowed investigators to collect evidence to conduct a DNA profile. It matched another profile in a national database and detectives tracked down the suspect at his home in the nearby city of Ventura.

Andrew David Jensen was arrested July 28 on suspicion of first-degree residential burglary, a felony. His bail was set at $180,000. Lohman did not know if Jensen, 42, has an attorney.

Efforts to reach Jensen for comment Tuesday were unsuccessful.

Lohman said it's the first DNA burglary match case he knows of with fecal evidence collected from a toilet.

"When people think of DNA evidence, they usually think of hair samples or saliva," Lohman said.

Jensen was scheduled to make his first court appearance Wednesday.

Normally I frown when they don't flush the brown. In this case BRL approves.

I remember our crime scene investigators telling us they can't get DNA out of poop or urine.

Sounds like they just didn't want to swab poop samples lol

In the 1971 book I, Pig: Or, How the World's Most Famous Cop, Me, Is Fighting City Hall by by Jack Muller he tells of using feces swabbed off a victim to convict a really sick rapist.

The hard part was getting an exemplar from the suspect, so they put him in a cell with a disabled toilet. When he was getting the evidence off the victim, everyone thought he'd flipped his lid, but the evidence technician who did the comparison thought it was a great example of science-based police investigation. All this in the days before DNA profiles.

Amazing the stuff my brain stores. I read that book as a freshman in high school, circa 1973/4.

Here's another from my county, this one linked a cold case homicide. Different agency, though, so I suppose that's why he thought it was the first time DNA linked feces.

"DNA collected from feces in a laundry basket found inside Shirley's closet was also matched to Casillas' DNA on April 20, 2014."

http://www.vcstar.com/story/ne...-teen-1997/97767218/

Lucky he used the toilet. Its a thing for some burglars to drop a deuce on the kitchen counter, or dining room table.