Authorities have charged a Concord man in connection with a 2-year-old liquor store break-in after they said they used his blood to tie him to the crime.

Investigators pulled a blood sample from the scene of the 2010 break-in and sent it to a state police crime lab for DNA testing, according to a report filed in Milford District Court by Hopedale Police Sgt. Steve Mahan. Mahan said the DNA profile matched 48-year-old Edward Joness.

In April, police formally charged Jones, of 965 Elm St., with nighttime breaking and entering for a felony, larceny under $250, destruction of property under $250, and larceny from a building.

Currently being held on unrelated charges at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute in Concord, he was scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Milford District Court, but was not transferred from the prison. Judge Robert Calagione rescheduled the arraignment for Oct. 12.

On June 23, 2010, Mahan responded at 10:55 p.m. to Grape Expectations, 156 Hartford Ave., and found all of the glass in the front of the store shattered. He said $200 and five lottery tickets had been stolen, and a 15-inch metal crowbar was left by the register.

The investigation initially stalled because the stores video camera had stopped recording for a week, Mahan said, apparently due to a power outage. And police were not able to lift any fingerprints from the store.

The blood - discovered, Mahan said, on three paper grocery bags behind the counter - proved to be the only physical evidence police extracted from the scene.

Later, however, the case got its first suspect when Mahan received information from the Medway Police Department regarding Jones. Sgt. William Kingsbury told Mahan that Jones had been linked to several liquor store break-ins in the area and that the thefts all followed a similar pattern.

"Sgt. Kingsbury advised me that Mr. Jones would break a window and steal from the register," Mahan said.

State Police ran the blood sample Mahan took from the store through the Combined DNA Index System on April 11, and Hopedale police, armed with the matching DNA profile, charged Jones.

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