DNA TESTS ORDERED ON SLAYING SUSPECT.Byline: Donna Huffaker Staff Writer DNA tests were ordered from a Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. man Thursday to determine if the La Canada Flintridge man he is accused of killing and robbing scratched him in the face before he died, authorities said. Pasadena Commissioner Collette Serio granted the prosecutor's request to test Martin Higgins  This article or section is an autobiography, or has been extensively edited by the subject, and may not conform to Wikipedia's NPOV policy.Please see the relevant discussion on the . , 59, to determine if his DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. was under the victim's fingernails. ``We want to see if the evidence under the victim's fingernails came from the defendant's face,'' said Deputy District Attorney Phil Wojdak. Higgins had scratches on his face when he was arrested April 7 in Laughlin, Nev., Wojdak said. Higgins was getting into a Ford Thunderbird The Ford Thunderbird was a car manufactured in the United States by the Ford Motor Company. It entered production for the 1955 Ford Thunderbird model year as a two-seater sporty car but, unlike the similar Chevrolet Corvette, the Thunderbird was never sold as a full-blown sports owned by James Cummings, 68, of La Canada Flintridge, when he was arrested on an outstanding warrant, police said. Higgins allegedly also had Cummings' driver's license. When Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies went to Cummings' home the next day, they found Cummings' badly beaten body. Wojdak said Cummings was also stabbed. Higgins was then booked on suspicion of murder. The outstanding warrant out of San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l  `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. alleges that he stole from a longtime friend and his wife earlier this year. The couple told police Higgins duped them out of $1,000 cash and credit card charges and stole a family heirloom, an $8,000 mandolin mandolin (măn'dəlĭn`, măn`dəlĭn'), musical instrument of the lute family, with a half-pear-shaped body, a fretted neck, and a variable number of strings, plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum. , Las Vegas police have said. Higgins is charged with robbery, two counts of possessing someone else's ATM cards with intent to defraud, grand theft of ATM cards and three counts of burglary. Higgins, who is being held without bail at Los Angeles County Jail, used to tend bar for Up th' Hill, a La Crescenta pub Cummings owned. |
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