Crime & Safety
DNA from Cigarette Connects Hellertown Man to 2011 Mischief: Police
Lower Saucon Township police say DNA collected from a piece of crime scene evidence—a discarded Newport cigarette—has connected a Hellertown man to a July 2011 criminal mischief case.
Lower Saucon Township police say DNA collected from a discarded Newport cigarette has connected a Hellertown man to a July 2011 criminal mischief case.
In a news release issued Friday, police said Frank Deen Hazeltine Jr., 30, of the first block of E. High Street, has been charged with criminal mischief-tampering with property after DNA from a cigarette found in a vehicle was allegedly linked to him by the Pennsylvania State Police's Forensic Services team.
Police accuse Hazeltine of illegally entered the vehicle in the 2300 block of Black River Road during the early-morning hours of July 30, 2011.
A non-traffic citation was filed Monday with the office of District Judge David Tidd of Lower Saucon, online court records say.
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