Police say DNA evidence used to solve 2004 burglary
State police said DNA evidence has allowed investigators to solve a burglary that occurred nearly nine years ago.
Trooper James A. Pierce said that as a result of DNA analysis of blood samples taken from the 2004 robbery of a market in Menallen Township, police charged Charles R. Opel Jr. of Republic.
The 50-year-old, who is currently serving a prison sentence of 21 to 42 months at the State Correctional Institution in Pittsburgh for theft and related counts filed in Fayette County in 2011, was charged Tuesday by Magisterial District Judge Joseph M. George Jr. with burglary, theft and criminal mischief.