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DNA Leads Tampa Police To Auto Burglary Suspect
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Published: September 11, 2008
TAMPA - Blood left behind after a man smashed a car window with a brick led police to charge him in several auto burglaries Wednesday.
Sylvester Epps, 46, of Tampa was being held at Orient Road Jail today on $23,000 bail. He is charged with three counts each of felony burglary and felony grand theft. Four of those charges were added Wednesday after his initial arrest Aug. 31 in an auto burglary, records show.
Forensic tests done by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement matched blood left at a car burglarized at Eighth Avenue and Nuccio Parkway on June 14 to Epps, Tampa police said. Epps apparently cut his hand on the window that he had smashed with a brick, police said.
An officer visited Epps in jail Wednesday and talked to him about the DNA results and similar burglaries. He first confessed to the June burglary and the one on Aug. 31 and then confessed to four others, police said.
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