DNA leads police to salami-loving thief
BERLIN (Reuters) - German authorities were able to pin a burglary
committed in April on a suspected serial thief after he left a
half-eaten slice of salami carrying a sliver of his DNA at a crime
scene, police said Thursday.
The 37-year-old Romanian man is accused of breaking into a workshop
office in the western city of Darmstadt, stealing cash and two locks
and causing damage worth around 3,400 euros ($5,055), Suedhessen police
spokesman Ferdinand Derigs said. "He didn't bring the salami with him
-- it was just lying around in the office," Derigs said.
The man was already wanted in connection with 19 burglaries and had
been taken into custody in January after a routine police road check,
he added. Investigations are continuing.
(Reporting by Iain Rogers, editing by Paul Casciato)
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