LINCOLNTON, N.C. — A palm print taken from a 2010 breaking and entering case helped police track the suspect four years later.
Officials say they responded to a vehicle break-in on April 8, 2010 at a home on Logan Lane in Denver.
Investigators say someone entered the garage area of the house after the homeowner forgot to put the door down the night before. The suspect is accused of taking a purse from the vehicle.
A deputy found some finger prints and a palm print on the vehicle and collected the samples and entered them into the FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System.
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office was notified by the FBI on Monday that they found a match of the palm print. That led to the arrest of Jordan Suarez of Lincolnton.
He has been charged with breaking and entering a building, breaking and entering a motor vehicle and larceny after breaking and entering.
