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A 38-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of robbing a variety goods store in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward in April 2008 after a DNA match placed him at the scene of the crime. According to police, the suspect, Atsushi Kameoka, an Osaka pub employee, was arrested for another crime this year, Fuji TV reported.
In the April 3, 2008 robbery, a man entered the store at around 8:30 p.m., threatened the 41-year-old woman on duty with a knife, stole 100,000 yen and then fled, leaving the knife behind. There were no customers nor other staff in the store. The employee was not injured.
Policer said Kameoka had no police record at that time. However, DNA from material on the knife used in the robbery matched that of Kameoka left at the scene of another crime for which he was arrested earlier this year.
Police suspect Kameoka may also be responsible for a series of similar robberies that occurred in the same area in 2008.
Police said Kameoka has refused to say anything about the 2008 robbery until he talks with a lawyer
© Japan Today
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chuckmo
How is this guy getting so much DNA on everything??
Strangerland
Um, by being alive. You know, that thing we all do.
Yubaru
It's kind of hard to leave DNA on an inanimate object like a knife being carried in a person's hand.
It would be almost the same as my dna being on your hand if all I did was shake your hand, it is not that easy to pass along.
Strangerland
Anytime you shed a cell on anything, you leave DNA. People shed cells all day long. I'm not sure why you think this would be hard.
If you shed any cells, it would happen. Being on you however, it would be harder to isolate any cells that I left with you, since they would be hard to identify from yours.
Yubaru
You give the cops here too much credit, finding that one cell is less than a needle in a haystack.
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