Just when you think you’ve gotten away with a robbery after seven years, police link you to the crime thanks to blood and DNA samples taken from a leech.  Doesn’t that just suck?  In 2001, Peter Alec Cannon and another man robbed an old woman of $500.  Seven years later, after an arrest on drug-related charges, police use his DNA sample obtained after the drug arrest to link him back to the crime years previous, all thanks to a leech detectives picked up at the crime scene.

Now, if you’re wondering why cops bothered to pick up leeches, you’re not alone.  If you’re also wondering why Cannon didn’t just squash the leech after he picked it off his body, you’re still not alone.  If I was going to commit a crime, or if I just found a leech on me randomly, my first instinct would be to squash it.  Even if I’m not trying to keep out of jail, blood-drinking critters like that just give me the creeps.

Tags: leeches, crimes, unusual arrests, man arrested after leech provides DNA, Peter Alec Cannon, Launceton, Tazmania, Australia

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