Authorities in Ohio are crediting DNA taken from a dog's mouth in helping to nab a man accused of violent robbery and home invasion, Fox 8 reported. <\/p>\n
Police in Barberton responded to calls about a violent home invasion on Oct. 6, during which one of the intruders assaulted the resident. <\/p>\n
\"One of the subjects had a gun, he assaulted one of the residents in the house, and as they were fleeing, they had a pit bull at the house that went after the suspect and bit him in the arm and leg,\" Barberton patrolman Marty Eberhart told the station. <\/p>\n
Investigators said one of the three men pulled out a gun and shot the dog. <\/p>\n
\"When officers got there the dog was deceased. They did a DNA swab of the dogs mouth after finding out that the dog had bit a suspect,\" Eberhart said. <\/p>\n
Detectives sent the DNA sample to the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, according to the station. Two months later, authorities learned that the DNA matched that of 24-year-old David Stoddard. <\/p>\n
While police were making arrangements with the man's attorney for him to turn himself in, Stoddard was arrested and charged with shooting a woman and teenage girl inside a home in Akron on Jan. 6. The 16-year-old victim, who was pregnant, died, the station reported. <\/p>\n
Police say without testing DNA from the dog's mouth, they may have never solved the case. <\/p>\n
We were just as amazed, too, that it actually worked when we did the DNA swab and that it came back to a positive match, so we were pretty shocked by it because we didnt have any leads on the investigation, Eberhart told the station. <\/p>\n
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