On July 29, 2005 around 12:30 p.m., two men broke the glass display case of a Cumberland Mall store and helped themselves to more than $100,000 worth of jewelry, according to police. The only thing left behind was blood after one of the men apparently cut himself on the glass.
But that blood was enough to identify a suspect more than nine years later, thanks to DNA. An Atlanta man, Antevise Deon Brown, has been charged with felony theft by taking in the case, according to his arrest warrant. He’s accused of stealing numerous items from Crown Jewelers.
In March 2006, the GBI Crime Lab determined the DNA sample matched a sample from a 2003 case in Clayton County, the arrest warrant states. But at the time, investigators had not identified the suspect.
Brown was arrested in July in an unrelated case, according to police. And this time, the GBI confirmed Brown’s recent DNA sample matched the blood sample from the 2005 theft.
Brown was being held in the Fulton County jail Tuesday afternoon on drug charges, booking records showed.
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