Crime Report
Friday, December 21, 2012
DNA on cigarette butt solves 2009 burglary

KEY WEST -- A cigarette butt solved a 2009 burglary this week, according to police spokeswoman Alyson Crean.

Patrick George Cummings, 39, already in jail on charges of burglarizing an occupied home last weekend, was served a new burglary charge at Monroe County Detention Center.

Cummings allegedly left behind a burnt cigarette when he fled a Watson Street...

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