SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - The Salt Lake County Sheriff’s office says Donald Williams is behind bars thanks to a DNA match from a burglary earlier this year.
Back in May, the sheriff’s office says that Williams broke into the Millcreek home of a 36-year-old woman.
Don Hutson of the Salt Lake County sheriff’s office says that the suspect cut himself as he was either going into the window of the garage or while he used a sledgehammer to make entry through the door.
The blood he left behind was submitted to the State of Utah crime lab against a national database of convicted felons throughout the country. Williams’ blood matched somebody who had once submitted DNA in Arizona.
That person was captured by Salt Lake City police for burglarizing a home in the Rose Park area just weeks before the blood sample was submitted to be matched. It turns out that the Rose Park burglar and the Millcreek burglar are the same person, Donald Williams.
Hutson explains that people who are involved in crime are usually involved in other crimes, which is why he wasn’t too surprised when William’s blood got a hit.
Williams was charged with burglary and second degree felony theft.
