CSI North Bay: The Sequel

The North Bay Police Service has used DNA analyses for at least the second time in the last eight months, and it yielded them a suspect they've been after for almost two years.

Someone broke into several businesses at the North Bay Mall in September of 2002.

Police investigators seized an item of evidence and processed it as a potential source of DNA.

This evidence was then forwarded to the Centre of Forensic Sciences, in Toronto.

A month after the North Bay Mall break-ins, a suspect was convicted of a break and enter in Sault Ste. Marie, and a sample from this person was submitted to a national DNA data bank.

Last September the North Bay Police Service was told a match had been made at the national DNA data bank.

Det. Cst. Greg McClenaghan of this North Bay Police Service then obtained a warrant to obtain a DNA sample from a suspect.

A warrant sample of DNA was obtained from the suspect in Sault Ste. Marie, with the assistance of the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service and the Ontario Provincial Police Identification Unit in Sault Ste. Marie.

The DNA analysis of the warrant sample at the Centre of Forensic Sciences verified the DNA data bank hit.

An arrest warrant was issued for the suspect and he was arrested in the Sault by the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service.

North Bay Police Service officers went to Sault Ste. Marie Thursday and returned with Robert Day, 20, who has been charged with seven counts of break and enter in connection with the North Bay Mall break-ins.

Last October North Bay Police announced they had used a DNA match to solve a break-in at Cyclops Video, on Gormanville Road.