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A suspected robber in New Mexico who face-planted into a Pizza Hut door during his getaway has been arrested thanks to DNA he left on the floor, police say.
After authorities were able to link the DNA to 19-year-old Markell Deshaun Barnes, they also discovered he was the culprit of another armed robbery earlier the same day.
Barnes was taken into custody last week after a forensic laboratory result matched his DNA, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported.
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Police said the first robbery took place on June 25 around 12:15 a.m. at a gas station in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and the second robbery occurred at a Pizza Hut in Las Cruces around 10:30 p.m. the same day.
Markell Deshaun Barnes
Once police reviewed surveillance in the Pizza Hut case, they realized the suspect tried running out a door that had already been locked for the night, before turning around and trying another exit. They swabbed the door and sent the sample to a forensic lab in Santa Fe.
The unknown DNA profile was entered into CODIS -- the Combined DNA Index System -- where it matched a known sample of Barnes.
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So far, Barnes has been charged with one third-degree felony count of attempted armed robbery and one fourth-degree felony count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for the Pizza Hut Robbery. Additional charges are expected to be filed for the gas station robbery.
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